Air Quality Monitoring at the Ekati Diamond Mine Using Vegetation and Lichens as Bioindicators (ABR Inc., 1999)
This report documents the initial air quality monitoring program at the Ekati Diamond Mine using vegetation and lichens as bioindicators, including a comprehensive literature review on the use of lichens and mosses for detecting atmospheric contaminants and 1998 baseline results comparing trace metal concentrations in lichen tissue between project area and reference area stations.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds, Inc., ABR Inc., Janet G. Kidd, Sue C. Bishop, Envirotest Laboratories
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada, Yellowknife, Koala watershed, Misery watershed, Long Lake, Grizzly Lake, Arctic, Subarctic, Norway, Finland, Kola Peninsula, Siberia, Iceland, Svalbard, Keewatin District
- Parameters
- air quality, vegetation cover, lichen tissue analysis, trace metals, cobalt, chromium, copper, lithium, molybdenum, strontium, titanium, aluminum, arsenic, barium, cadmium, lead, vanadium, zinc, pH, nitrate, ammonium, sulfate, sulfur dioxide, heavy metals, atmospheric deposition, bioindicators, total suspended particulates
- Pages
- 46
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