Evaluation of groundwater pollution in a mining area using analytical solution: a case study of the Yimin open-pit mine in China

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Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Li, Tianxin ^a   Li, Li ^a   Song, Hongqing ^a   Meng, Linglong ^a   Zhang, Shuli ^b   Huang, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Research Institute of Environmental Science   (China)

Author keywords

Analytical solution; Contaminant migration; Flow rate; Groundwater model; Open pit mine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962374168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-2023-x     Document Type: Article

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