Mining Activities: Health Impacts

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 788-802

  Coelho, P C S ^a   Teixeira, J P F ^a   Goncalves O N B S M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Abandoned mines; Acid mine drainage; Contamination; Cyanides; Health impacts; Heavy metals; Legislation; Mine wastes; Mining safety and health; Radioactivity; Rehabilitation; Superfund

Indexed keywords

EID: 85065725611     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52272-6.00488-8     Document Type: Chapter

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