Browsing College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS) by Subject "Eastern Uganda"
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Assessment of mercury bioavailability in soils and potential uptake by food crops grown around selected artisanal and small-scale gold mining areas of Eastern Uganda
(Makerere University, 2024)The unregulated use of elemental mercury (Hg) in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) to extract gold from its ore results in metal pollution of various environmental systems. ASGM employs the mercury amalgamation ... -
Upgrading and characterization of smectite from selected volcanic sediments of Eastern Uganda
(2015)Natural clays occur as mixtures of many clay minerals and remains of the rocks that underwent diagenesis to yield the clays. As weathering of clay soils never ceases it may not be possible to mine single clay minerals. The ... -
Y-chromosome genotyping of the Balamogi, the Bagwere and the Banyole of Eastern Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-06-21)Uganda is an important place to study the genetic diversity of humans due to the existence of ethnically, linguistically and geographically diverse contemporary populations. Populations in Uganda speak languages that belong ...