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The Idrija Mercury Mine, Slovenia, a Semi-Millennium of Continous Operation: An Ecological Impact

A semi-millennium of mining and processing of ore in Idrija induced severe contamination of all natural compartments , soils, air, and stream sediments with the exeption of stream water. Long term human intervention into with the huge natural accumulation of mercury, the ore deposits and its wide spread dispersion into the environment prevents quantitative discrimination of the natural and man-made contribution. A study of the soil profiles over barren and ore bearing rocks suggests man’s activity as the predominat source of the pollution.

Geochemical mapping, pollution, soil, mercury, lead, cadmium, Idrija

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