Ecological risk assessment for a mine pit lake, Nevada, USA

Closure of an open pit gold mine in central Nevada, USA, will result in cessation of dewatering at the mine and formation of a pit lake. The future pit lake will occur in a desert shrub community and have no surface water inflows or outflows. An ecological risk assessment far the pit lake was conduc...

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Main Authors: Sampson, Jennifer R., Mellott, Ron S., Pastorok, Robert A.
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10802