Assessment of metallic trace elements mobility from mine tailing and soils around abandoned Pb mine site in North East Morocco

The concentration level of a certain metal in soil is often the guideline for evaluating its contamination level. In such a process, ecological standards are the guidelines for assessing ecological risks. In the presence of certain conditions, the risk of contamination can expand beyond the concerne...

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Autores: Nassiri, Oumayma, Rhoujjat, Ali, E. L. Hachimi, Moulay Lâarabi, Moreno Jiménez, Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/720756
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/720756
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16583655.2022.2128564
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Abandoned mine
mobility
sequential extraction
soil contamination
Química
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Sumario:The concentration level of a certain metal in soil is often the guideline for evaluating its contamination level. In such a process, ecological standards are the guidelines for assessing ecological risks. In the presence of certain conditions, the risk of contamination can expand beyond the concerned area creating a threat that is based on mobility. Such threat cannot be overlooked and needs to be taken into consideration, as such the work below aims to assess the mobility of metallic trace elements M.T.Es (Pb, Cu, Cd, As, Ni, Cr and Zn) in different soils and mine tailing around an abandoned Pb Zeïda mine in Morocco. The sequential extraction followed a standard BCR four-step procedure and revealed that all M.T.Es were largely associated with the exchangeable and reducible fractions, exhibiting higher mobility susceptibility and bioavailability, except for As. This was consistent with the physico-chemical and mineralogical properties of the local geological composition