Item Description: | I Chemical and Biological Principles -- Metals in Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems: Sorption, Speciation, and Mobilization (With 17 Figures) -- Microbiological Oxidations of Minerals and Mine Tailings -- Response of Plants and Vegetation to Mine Tailings and Dredged Materials (With 2 Figures) -- II Biological and Geochemical Assessment -- Case Histories of Coastal and Marine Mines (With 9 Figures) -- Development of Dredged Material Disposal Sites: Implications for Soil, Flora and Food Quality (With 6 Figures) -- Biological Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Dredged Material (With 1 Figure) -- Soil Pollution by Metals from Mining and Smelting Activities (With 2 Figures) -- Geochemistry of Priority Pollutants in Anoxic Sludges: Cadmium, Arsenic, Methyl Mercury, and Chlorinated Organics (With 11 Figures) -- Assessment of Metal Mobility in Dredged Material and Mine Waste by Pore Water Chemistry and Solid Speciation (With 6 Figures) -- Diagenetic Processes in Aquatic Mine Tailings Deposits in British Columbia (With 10 Figures) -- Behaviour of Trace Metals in a Tropical River System Affected by Mining (With 6 Figures) -- Heavy Metal Transport in Streams - Field Release Experiments (With 13 Figures). |