Potentially Toxic Elements in Soils Affected by Metal Mining and Processing, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2024) | Viewed by 1367
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil; mine wastes; tailings; potentially toxic elements; arsenic; remediation; risk assessment; biogeochemistry; phytoavailability; ecotoxicity
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Interests: heavy potentially toxic elements in the environment, their speciation; antimony and arsenic, mobility and phytoavailability; land reclamation; shooting ranges, the use of remote sensing for the quantitative assessment of soil nutrient status and soil contamination
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The production of metals has always been and remains an important constituent in the development of civilization. Mining of metal ores, as well as their processing, which involves various methods of concentration and smelting, belong to those human activities that strongly affect the environment. They usually lead to their considerable enrichment in potentially toxic elements, such as heavy metals and metalloids. The problem of soil pollution at such sites relates both to abandoned historical mines and smelters and to currently operating plants. Although the contemporary metal industry usually uses modern technologies that can significantly reduce the amounts of contaminants released into the environment, potentially toxic metals and metalloids that have accumulated in soils for decades or centuries can still pose a considerable risk to human health and ecosystems. Their transformations can lead to either beneficial or detrimental effects.
This Special Issue of Minerals welcomes works dealing with various problems related to soil contamination in the sites affected by metal ore mining and processing, including weathering of metal(loid)-hosting minerals, biogeochemistry of potentially toxic elements in soils, their release into water and uptake by plants, and assessment of associated environmental risk, as well as the methods of soil remediation.
Prof. Dr. Anna Karczewska
Prof. Dr. Karolina Lewińska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metals
- metalloids
- soil
- contamination
- mining
- mine wastes
- tailings
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