Trace metal pollution in freshwater sediments of the world’s largest mercury mining district: sources, spatial distribution, and environmental implications

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  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Soils and Sediments

• Publication date

  2017-07-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s11368-016-1503-5
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