Size-dependent characterisation of historical gold mine wastes to examine human pathways of exposure to arsenic and other potentially toxic elements

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This study was funded by an Australian Postgraduate Research Award. The authors would like to thank the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Ltd for providing financial assistance (AINSE PGRA) to enable work on the neutron activation analysis component of this paper. The authors also thank Dr. Christopher Kim at Chapman University, USA, for the provision of technical guidance and additional documentation in support of this study. The authors acknowledge Haydn Swan, Larissa Koroznikova and Gordon Williams at Federation University Australia for their technical advice and assistance relating to laboratory and field work.