Waste water discharge from a large Ni-Zn open cast mine degrades benthic integrity of Lake Nuasjärvi (Finland)

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: Luoto, Tomi P., Leppänen, Jaakko Johannes, Weckström, Jan
• Other Authors: Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Environmental Change Research Unit (ECRU)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD 2021
• Subjects: 1172 Environmental sciences; Chironomidae; Cladocera; diatoms; mine impact; paleolimnology; MIDGES DIPTERA; INFERENCE MODELS; SUMMER HYPOLIMNETIC OXYGEN; EUTROPHICATION; ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; METAL CONTAMINATION; SOUTHERN FINLAND; KOLA-PENINSULA; CLIMATE; Kola Peninsula; Nuasjärvi; kola peninsula
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/334444

The Talvivaara/Terrafame multi-metal mining company is Europe’s largest nickel open cast mine, it is also known for the largest wastewater leakage in the Finnish mining history and a series of other accidents. In this paleolimnological study, influences of a recently constructed treated waste water...