The effect of mining and ore processing effluents on mercury content in Arctic Lake sediments

The chemical composition, including mercury, of sediments in lakes of the Murmansk Region exposed to pollution by effluents from the mining industry was studied. It was found that the highly toxic and hazardous for the lake ecosystem chalcophile Hg comes from the activities of apatite-nepheline and...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Proceedings of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Main Author: Vladimir Dauvalter
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Russian
Published: Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2019
Subjects:
Q
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17076/lim929
https://doaj.org/article/19af84b06c06431485941fc64dd8c74f