Long-term response of an arctic fiord system to lead-zinc mining and submarine disposal of mine waste (Maarmorilik, West Greenland)

• Published in: Marine Environmental Research
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Mining; Submarine tailings disposal; Pollution monitoring; Heavy metals; Lead; Zinc; Mytilus edulis; Fucus vesiculosus; Greenland; Arctic; Johansen; Maarmorilik; National Environmental Research Institute
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/63618; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2011.03.001

Abstract Contamination by lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn) was studied in seawater, sediment, seaweed and blue mussels near the former ?Black Angel Pb-Zn Mine? in Maarmorilik, West Greenland. The mine was operated during the period 1973-90 when mine waste (tailings and later waste rock) was discharged direct...