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Título: | Long-range effect of cyanide on mercury methylation in a gold mining area in southern Ecuador |
Autor: | Guimaraes, Jean Remi Betancourt, Oscar Barriga, Ramiro Rodriguez, Marcio Cueva, Edwin Betancourt, Sebastián |
Palabras clave: | CYANIDATION PUYANGO RIVER WATER SEDIMENT |
Fecha de publicación: | 10-sep-2011 |
Editorial: | Elsevier |
Citación: | Guimaraes, J, O.Betancourt y R. Barriga, 2011. Long-range effect of cyanide on mercury methylation in a gold mining area in southern Ecuador. Science of the Total Environment 409: 5026–5033. |
Citación: | Science of the Total Environment;409 |
Resumen: | Small-scale gold mining in Portovelo–Zaruma, Southern Equador, performed by mercury amalgamation and cyanidation, yields 9–10 t of gold/annum, resulting in annual releases of around 0.65 t of inorganic mercury and 6000 t of sodium cyanide in the local river system. The release of sediments, cyanide, mercury, and other metals present in the ore such as lead, manganese and arsenic significantly reduces biodiversity downstream the processing plants and enriches metals in bottom sediments and biota. However, methylmercury concentrations in sediments downstream the mining area were recently found to be one order of magnitude lower than upstream or in small tributaries. In this study we investigated cyanide, bacterial activity in water and sediment and mercury methylation potentials in sediments along the Puyango river watershed, measured respectively by in-situ spectrophotometry and incubation with 3H-leucine and 203Hg2+. |
URI: | http://bibdigital.epn.edu.ec/handle/15000/16493 |
ISSN: | 00489697 |
Tipo: | Article |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Publicaciones (PECES) |
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