Quantification of Water Sources in a Coastal Gold Mine through an End-Member Mixing Analysis Combining Multivariate Statistical Methods

Mixing calculations have been widely applied to identify sources of groundwater recharge, but these calculations have assumed that the concentrations of end-members are well known. However, the end-members of water remain unclear and are not easily available in practical applications. To better dete...

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Main Authors: Guowei Liu, Fengshan Ma, Gang Liu, Jie Guo, Xueliang Duan, Hongyu Gu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-02-01
Series:Water
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/2/580