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Bulletin 2191

Pathways of Metal Transfer from Mineralized Sources to Bioreceptors: A Synthesis of the Mineral Resources Program’s Past Environmental Studies in the Western United States and Future Research Directions

By Laurie S. Balistrieri and Lisa L. Stillings

This bulletin consists of 8 chapters. ONLY Chapters 1, 4, and 6 are available at this time.

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Download Chapter 1 entitled Introduction to Pathways of Metal Transfer from Mineralized Sources to Bioreceptors as a PDF document (168 KB) By Roger P. Ashley, Elizabeth A. Bailey, Laurie S. Balistrieri, Andrea L. Foster, Larry P. Gough, Floyd Gray, Randolph A. Koski, James J. Rytuba, Robert R. Seal II, Kathleen S. Smith, Lisa L. Stillings, and Richard B. Wanty

Download Chapter 4 entitled Biogeochemical and Biochemical Pathway Investigations of Cadmium in Subarctic Ecosystems Using a Cadmium Accumulator Species (willow) as a PDF document (1.3 MB) By L.P. Gough, R.F. Sanzolone, J.G. Crock, A.L. Foster, P.J. Lamothe, C.M. Ager, and C.A. Gent

Download Chapter 6 entitled Impacts of historical mining in the Coeur d’Alene River Basin as a PDF document (2.4 MB) By Laurie S. Balistrieri, Stephen E. Box, Arthur A. Bookstrom, Robert L. Hooper, and J. Brian Mahoney

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