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Environment

Environmental Impact of Artisanal Gold Mining at Cikangean Riverin Mulajaya Village, Garut, West Java

Jawa Barat

Kabupaten Garut

Indonesia

DAMAYANTI, Retno

R & D Centre for Mineral and Coal Technology

Bandung

2009

Bandung

The artisanal and small scale gold mining usually utilize mecury for its gold recovery. Mercury is used as the best alternative by many miners due to its effectivenes, simple and cheap process for gold recovery. The increasing mercury utilization motivates tekMIRA to prevent more pollution caused by uncontrolled on incorrect mercury utilization. For this purpose, the artisanal gold mining located in Mulyajaya Village, Garut was chosen for monitoring mining activities. Grab sampling methods was used to evaluate environmental monitoring on terrestrial water and its sediment, soil and tailing surrounding the artisanal gold mining

Indonesian Mining Journal , 2009, Vol. 12, N.13

Hal. 1 - 9

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Ada

Oktober

2009

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