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Arsenic Movement in the Soils around a Closed Zinc Mine  

Seo, Young-Jin (Gyeongsangbukdo Agriculture Research and Extension Services)
Choi, Jyung (Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Kyungpook National University)
Kang, Yun-Ju (Gyeongsangnbukdo Government Public Institute of Health and Environment)
Park, Man (Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Kyungpook National University)
Kim, Kwang-Seop (Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Kyungpook National University)
Lee, Young-Han (Gyeongsangnamdo Agriculture Research and Extension Services)
Komarneni, Sridhar (205 Material Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University)
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Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer / v.43, no.1, 2010 , pp. 51-59 More about this Journal
Abstract
The sediments and soils around a mine are likely to be exposed to contamination of arsenic (As) through mining operations. In this study, the factors associated with As movement in soils around a closed zinc (Zn) mine were evaluated by the relationship of As distributions to physico-chemical properties of soils. A sequential extraction scheme, based on a soil P fractionation, was used to assess the As distributionsin solid phases. A significant difference in As distributions was found between paddy and upland soils. While As contents of paddy soils increased with soil depth, those of upland soils decreased with soil depth. In upland soils, As showed additional significant relationships to oxides of Si, Al and Fe. Although a major fraction of As in soils was found to be in the NaOH extractable fraction, As exhibited highly significant relationship to the Zn species that apparently originated from the mine. Therefore, As mobility around Zn mine seems to be governed by mass flow of the particulates containing As-associated Zn in paddy soils, whereas retention reactions such as adsorption, complexation, and precipitation seem to predominate in upland soils.
Keywords
Arsenic distribution; Sequential extraction; Physico-chemical properties; Mine tailing;
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