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Mercury from Gold and Silver Mining: A Chemical Time Bomb? (Environmental Science and Engineering) by Dr. Luiz D. de Lacerda, Professor Dr. Wim Salomons (auth.) is a engineering available to read on EtoBox.
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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 gold by individual entrepreneurs for whom Hg amalgamation is a cheap and easily carried out operation. Even after the present-day mining areas are exhausted, the mercury left behind will remain part of t
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Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Dr. Luiz D. de Lacerda, Professor Dr. Wim Salomons (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783642587931
- Category
- engineering
- Subjects
- Science, Chemistry, Agriculture
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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