The lichen transplant methodology in the source apportionment of metal deposition around a copper smelter in the former mining town of Karabash, Russia
| Autor: | O. W. Purvis, I. N. Mikhailova, Valery Udachin, Baruch Spiro, Ben J. Williamson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Blast furnace
Lichens Air pollution Environmental engineering Slag General Medicine Management Monitoring Policy and Law Particulates medicine.disease_cause Pollution Tailings Mining Russia Transplantation visual_art Environmental chemistry Smelting medicine visual_art.visual_art_medium Environmental science Environmental Pollutants Air quality index Copper General Environmental Science Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Environmental monitoring and assessment. 141(1-3) |
| ISSN: | 0167-6369 |
| Popis: | The lichen transplant monitoring methodology has been tested for source apportionment of metal deposition around the Cu smelter and former mining town of Karabash. Transplants of the lichen Hypogymnia physodes (L.) Nyl., collected from a 'control' site in July 2001, were set up at 10 stations along a 60 km NE-SW transect centred on Karabash. Samples were collected after 2 and 3 month monitoring periods and analysed using established wet-chemical techniques. The sources of particulate investigated were the smelter blast furnace and converter, floatation tailings, metallurgical slags, local road dusts, top soils and ambient airborne total suspended particulate. From multi-element least-squares modelling the blast furnace was the main source of particulate in transplants close to the smelter ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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