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Mercury from gold and silver mining : a chemical time bomb? /

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Due to its inherent characteristics, mercury contamination from gold mining is a major environmental problem compared to past mercury contamination from industrial point sources. The worsening of social-economical conditions and increasing gold prices in the late 1970s resulted in a new rush for gol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lacerda, Luiz Drude de
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Salomons, W. (Willem), 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1998]
Series:Environmental science (Berlin, Germany)
Subjects:
Mercury > Environmental aspects.
Gold mines and mining > Environmental aspects.
Silver mines and mining > Environmental aspects.
Mercury wastes > Environmental aspects > Tropics.
Mercury wastes > Environmental aspects.
Tropics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The use of mercury amalgamation in gold and silver mining
  • Estimating losses of mercury to the environment
  • Mercury in the atmosphere
  • Mercury in tropical aquatic and terrestrial systems
  • Mercury in biota
  • Mercury contamination of humans in gold and silver mining areas
  • Perspectives on the temporal development of mercury inputs into the environment.