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Articles | Volume 21, issue 16
Articles | Volume 21, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12783-2021
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 16
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30 Aug 2021
Research article |  | 30 Aug 2021

Impact of Athabasca oil sands operations on mercury levels in air and deposition

Ashu Dastoor, Andrei Ryjkov, Gregor Kos, Junhua Zhang, Jane Kirk, Matthew Parsons, and Alexandra Steffen

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An assessment of mercury levels in air and deposition in the Athabasca oil sands region (AOSR) in Northern Alberta, Canada, was conducted to investigate the contribution of Hg emitted from oil sands activities to the surrounding landscape using a 3D process-based Hg model in 2012–2015. Oil sands Hg emissions are found to be important sources of Hg contamination to the local landscape in proximity to the processing activities, particularly in wintertime.
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