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Soil contamination linked to abandoned lead–zinc mining wastes represents a serious environmental hazard of worldwide concern, raising the need for cost-effective tools to spatialize the contaminated area and ...
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Polymetallic pollution from abandoned mines in Mediterranean regions: a multidisciplinary approach to environmental risks
Abandoned mines are a recurrent problem for nearby communities in Mediterranean regions because mine tailings represent a major source of polymetallic contamination. Metal contaminants are emitted in mining ar...
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Potential of Opuntia ficus-indica for air pollution biomonitoring: a lead isotopic study
Opuntia ficus-indica (Ofi) is a long-domesticated cactus that is widespread throughout arid and semiarid regions. Ofi is grown for both its fruits and edible cladodes, which are flattened...
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Health hazard prospecting by modeling wind transfer of metal-bearing dust from mining waste dumps: application to Jebel Ressas Pb–Zn–Cd abandoned mining site (Tunisia)
This work presents a modeling approach to simulate spatial distribution of metal contamination in aerosols with evaluation of health hazard. This approach offers the advantage to be non-intrusive, less expensi...
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Sm–Nd dating of fluorite from the worldclass Montroc fluorite deposit, southern Massif Central, France
A three-point Sm–Nd isotope isochron on fluorite from the very large Montroc fluorite vein deposit (southern Massif Central, France) defines an age of 111±13 Ma. Initial εNd of −8.6 and initial 87Sr/86Sr of ~0.71...
