Minerals and mine drainage

From: Water Environment Research | Date: June 1, 1998| Author: Holtzen, Mark L; Smith, Daniel P | Copyright information

SITE CHARACTERIZATION

Concentrations of cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc in paddy soils, rice plants, and irrigation waters sampled in the immediate vicinity of a lead-zinc mine in Korea were relatively high because of seepage of metals from mining dump sites (Jung and Thorton, 1997). No seasonal variations in metal concentrations were found in paddy soils throughout the rice growing period. A mineralogical and geochemical study of sediment 50 cm below the surface of the Fal Estuary at...

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