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Former Extractive Activities in Tunisia: Environmental Risk Assessement and Heavy Metals Immobilization

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Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions (EMCEI 2017)

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Mining has a very economic importance worldwide and remains an essential part of the economy in different countries (Nansai et al. in Environ Sci Technol 49(4):2022–2031, 2015; Galas and Galas in Resour Policy 49:204–212, 2016).

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Nouairi, J. et al. (2018). Former Extractive Activities in Tunisia: Environmental Risk Assessement and Heavy Metals Immobilization. In: Kallel, A., Ksibi, M., Ben Dhia, H., Khélifi, N. (eds) Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions. EMCEI 2017. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70548-4_146

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