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http://dx.doi.org/10.7857/JSGE.2013.18.1.085

Studies on Characterization of Soil Pollution and Variations of Heavy Metal Contents after Water-Tailings Reaction from Yonghwa Mine  

Kang, Han (Beautiful Environment Construction Corporation)
Kim, Young-Hun (Department of environmental Engineering, Andong National University)
Jang, Yun-Deuk (Department of Geology, Kyungpook National University)
Kim, Jeong-Jin (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Andong National University)
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Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment / v.18, no.1, 2013 , pp. 85-93 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is conducted to evaluate the leaching of contaminants from mine tailing by natural water and finally to estimate the leaching and transportation of heavy metal contaminants by rainfall. In order to identify contaminated heavy metal of soil, 17 soil, 2 tailing and 2 waste dump and 2 control samples were taken at mine area and analyzed total metal contents. The leaching experiments were conducted using distilled water. Cu, Pb, Zn was extracted from the reddish mine tailing in a short period time, especially the extraction rate of Cu (45.0%) was highest. The contaminants were leached from the yellowish mine tailing within an hour and the leaching rate of Cd (42.0%) and Zn (17.2%) were relatively high. The reddish soil from the waste dump showed leaching of Cu (5.1%), Pb (4.0%) and Zn (3.3%), however the leaching rate was low except Mi (14.2%). From the yellowish soil sampled from the dumping site, the leaching of Cu (8.2%) and Ni (9.7%) was high while the leaching of Zn (0.2%) were relatively low.
Keywords
Leaching; Mine tailing; Heavy metal; Waste dump;
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