Frontiers | Contaminant Removal and Precious Metal Recovery by Lateral ...
Water quality impacts from artisanal and smallscale alluvial (placer) gold mining operations occur in developing economies across several continents including Asia, Africa, and South America. They often occur in remote and/or resourcepoor settings in which mitigation strategies must contend with extreme seasonal variation in river flow as well as the economic incentive to periodically churn ...