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The earth's open wounds: abandoned and orphaned mines.

2003; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Volume: 111; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1289/ehp.111-a154

1552-9924

Scott A. Fields,

Mine drainage and remediation techniques

Research ArticleOpen AccessThe earth's open wounds: abandoned and orphaned mines. Scott Fields Scott Fields Published:1 March 2003https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.111-a154Cited by:28AboutSectionsPDF ToolsDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InReddit FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited by Cozzolino D, Chandra S, Roberts J, Power A, Rajapaksha P, Ball N, Gordon R and Chapman J (2018) There is gold in them hills: Predicting potential acid mine drainage events through the use of chemometrics, Science of The Total Environment, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.063, 619-620, (1464-1472), Online publication date: 1-Apr-2018. Carrenho R, Alves L and da Silva Santos I (2018) Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Interactions With Heavy Metals and Rehabilitation of Abandoned Mine Lands Bio-Geotechnologies for Mine Site Rehabilitation, 10.1016/B978-0-12-812986-9.00015-4, (261-279), . 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