Total mercury loadings in sediment from gold mining and conservation areas in Guyana

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Environmental Monitoring & Assessment

• Publication date

  2011-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s10661-010-1762-3PMID 21076999
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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