Impact of gold mining associated with mercury contamination in soil, biota sediments and tailings in Kenya

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 12426-12435

  Odumo, Benjamin Okang’ ^a   Carbonell, Gregoria ^b   Angeyo, Hudson Kalambuka ^a   Patel, Jayanti Purshottam ^a   Torrijos, Manuel ^b   Rodríguez Martín, José Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Kenya gold mining; Mercury pollution; Multivariate geostatistics; Spatial variation; Topsoils

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GOLD; MERCURY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; WASTE;

ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; KENYA; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MINING; MOSS; PROCEDURES; SEDIMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WASTE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRYOPHYTA; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GOLD; KENYA; LICHENS; MERCURY; MINING; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WASTE PRODUCTS;

EID: 84939872175     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3190-3     Document Type: Article

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