Disproportionate Water Quality Impacts from the Century-Old Nautanen Copper Mines, Northern Sweden

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Sandra Fischer, Gunhild Rosqvist, Sergey R. Chalov, Jerker Jarsjö
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: abandoned mines; mine waste; metal mass flows; arctic; envir; geo; Arctic; Nautanen; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12041394; https://doaj.org/article/b120a6914b4a42b682ea7abe4abd4ee9

Pollution from small historical mining sites is usually overlooked, in contrast to larger ones. Especially in the Arctic, knowledge gaps remain regarding the long-term mine waste impacts, such as metal leakage, on water quality. We study the small copper (Cu) mines of Nautanen, northern Sweden, whic...