Characterization, mapping, and mitigation of mercury vapour emissions from artisanal mining gold shops

Environmental Research

Volumn 125, Issue , 2013, Pages 82-91

  Cordy, Paul ^a   Veiga, Marcello ^a   Crawford, Ben ^a   Garcia, Oseas ^b   Gonzalez, Victor ^c   Moraga, Daniel ^d   Roeser, Monika ^b   Wip, Dennis ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DE MACHALA   (Ecuador)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^e ANTON DE KOM UNIVERSITY OF SURINAME   (Suriname)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Contamination; Gold shops; Mercury

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MERCURY;

ARTISANAL MINING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; GOLD; MAPPING; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING; MITIGATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STANDARD (REGULATION); WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHILE; COLOMBIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECUADOR; HEALTH HAZARD; MINER; MINING; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL; SURINAME; URBAN AREA; VAPOR;

ARTISANAL AND SMALL SCALE GOLD MINERS; ASGM; ATMOSPHERIC; CONTAMINATION; GOLD SHOPS; MERCURY; UNEP; UNIDO; UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM; UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; USEPA; WHO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; COMMERCE; FILTRATION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GOLD; MERCURY; MINING; SOUTH AMERICA;

CHILE; COLOMBIA; ECUADOR; PERU; SURINAME;

EID: 84881542026     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2012.10.015     Document Type: Article

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