Environmental risk of metal mining contaminated river bank sediment at redox-transitional zones

Minerals

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-73

  Lynch, Sarah F L ^a   Batty, Lesley C ^a   Byrne, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffuse pollution; Drought; Ferrihydrite; Flood; Metal mine; Oxic anoxic interface; Redox transitional zone; Sediment contamination; Sulphate; Sulphide

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907983518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2075163X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/min4010052     Document Type: Review

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