Assessment of metal and metalloid contamination in the waters and stream sediments around the abandoned uranium mine area from Mortórios, central Portugal

In the abandoned Mortórios uranium mine area there are quartz veins containing wolframite and sulphides and basic rock dykes with torbernite and autunite cutting a porphyritic granite. The basic rock dykes were exploited and produced about 27 tonnes of U3O8, from 1982 to 1988. There are an open pit...

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Main Author: Neiva, A. M. R. (author)
Other Authors: Carvalho, P. C. S. (author), Antunes, Isabel Margarida Horta Ribeiro (author), Albuquerque, M. T. D. (author), Santos, A. C. S. (author), Cunha, P. P. (author), Henriques, S. B. A. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2019
Subjects:
Basic rock dykes
Abandoned uranium mines
Open pit lakes
Water
Sediments
Contaminations
Ciências Naturais::Ciências da Terra e do Ambiente
Science & Technology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/61583
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/61583

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http://hdl.handle.net/1822/61583

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