Soil and Vegetation Pollution from an Abandoned Mining Area Situated in Hunedoara County, Romania

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Dinu ◽  
Eleonora Mihaela Ungureanu ◽  
Gabriela Geanina Vasile ◽  
Lidia Kim ◽  
Ioana Ionescu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mine Waste ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Dermal Absorption ◽  
Abandoned Mines ◽  
Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Metallic Elements ◽  
Vegetation Samples ◽  
Nickel Lead

The soils situated near the abandoned mines are highly polluted with metals due to the discharge and dispersion of mine waste into nearby air, water (surface and groundwater) and soil. Heavy metals may be transferred to humans through ingestion, inhalation or dermal absorption and can produce serious health problems affect the nervous, endocrine and immune systems, hematopoietic function and cellular metabolism. This paper investigates the presence of metallic elements from fourteen soil samples (seven sampling points) and thirty-six vegetation samples (different types of leaves, plants, roots and tree barks). The samples were collected from six different sites located in an abandoned mining area and from a point (blank sample) located 5 km in the SV direction of the quarry. The results obtained for soil samples show an overrun of the alert and / or intervention threshold for the following metals: arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, copper, manganese, nickel, lead and zinc. The analytical investigation for vegetation samples indicated that concentration for calcium, magnesium, cadmium, chromium, manganese, nickel, lead, zinc were situated over the normal range in some samples. The analytical investigations were performed by optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). The study�s conclusion indicates that, as result of soil acidic pH and high mobility of some metals, metallic elements migrate from soil to vegetation.

Mo Contamination in Rivers near the Erdenet Mining Area, Mongolia: Field Evidence of High Mobility of Mo at pH >8

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solongo Tsetsgee ◽  
Akihiro Okuyama ◽  
Altansukh Ochir ◽  
Ariuntungalag Yunden ◽  
Enkhjin Odgerel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Mobility ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Field Evidence

scholarly journals DISTRIBUTION OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS IN SOIL FROM CRN DRIM RIVER BASIN, REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trajče Stafilov ◽  
Robert Šajn ◽  
Ivana Mickovska
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Natural Occurrence ◽  
Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
Anthropogenic Element

The aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of chemical elements in topsoil and subsoil, focusing on the identification of natural and anthropogenic element sources in the area of the Crn Drim River Basin, Republic of Macedonia. For that purpose, by using sampling network of 5 × 5 km, 124 soil samples from 62 locations (topsoil and bottom soil) were collected. In total 60 elements were analysed, from which 18 elements (Ag, Al, B, Ba, Ca, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Li, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni, P, Pb, V и Zn) were analysed by inductively coupled plasma - atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) and an additional 42 elements were analysed by ICP - mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Multivariate statistical analysis was applied to the obtained data. Factor analysis applied to the ICP-AES results produced four geogenic fac-tors: F1 (Ba and K); F2 (Ag, Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn), F3 (Cr, Fe, Na, Ni and V) and F4 (Al, Ca, Mg and Mn). Data ob-tained from the distribution maps and data analysis on soil samples, indicate the natural occurrence of the analysed ele-ments as well as low concentrations of heavy metals in the studied area.

scholarly journals Treatment and remediation by the stabilization/solidification process based on hydraulic binders of soil contaminated by heavy metals

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-178
Author(s):  
Rachid Sahnoune ◽  
Karim Moussaceb
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Chemical Species ◽  
Solidification Process ◽  
Absorption Spectrometry ◽  
Xrd Analysis ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Metallic Elements ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
High Concentrations

Abstract Nature and the environment are affected by various human industrial and/or urban discharges. Remediation for this problem requires first and foremost an in-depth analysis and an overall characterization of the intrinsic properties of the pollution-receiving environments. Secondly it is necessary to predict in these environments the behavior of dangerous chemical species (here particularly heavy metals) in the long term. This study focuses mainly on a detailed characterization of 4 soil samples sampled in vicinity of wild dump-BOULIMAT located 15 km west of the city of Bejaia-Algeria. The samples were characterised by atomic absorption spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, Fluorescence X and Infrared spectroscopy. The data showed high concentrations of metallic elements especially Zn (2,651.8 mg.kg−1) and Ni (163.44 mg.kg−1) in the soil samples. For their remediation, the stabilization/solidification (S/S) process with hydraulic binders appeared promising in reducing the polluting power of metal. This approach has considerably reduced the content of pollutants; 98 % removal was obtained for Ni and 99 % for Zn. The XRD analysis technique revealed the occurrence or absence of metallic elements in the crystallized phases.

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