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Heavy metals mobility associated with the molybdenum mining-concentration complex in the Buryatia Republic, Germany

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Abstract

Mining of Dzhida ore deposits in Russia has caused the formation of a large tailings dam with technogenic sands and contamination of nearby district soils. Geochemical fractions of technogenic sands were divided by a sequential extraction procedure. The sampling points with maximum concentration of Pb, Cu, and Zn were selected for investigation of heavy metal mobility. Two previously described methods of heavy metal fractionation using selective extraction were applied: a procedure developed by the Community Bureau of Reference of the Commission of the European Communities (BCR procedure) and Tessier’s fractionation scheme. Despite some differences in Pb extractions, the two procedures describe equally well the distribution of heavy metals on geochemical fractions. BCR procedure was chosen as a fast method of heavy metal mobile form estimation. For considered mining object, it is revealed that there are different characters of heavy metal mobility sequence in the soils Zn > Cu > Pb and technogenic sands Pb > Zn > Cu.

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This work was supported by the complex integration project of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science № 112 “Geochemical and biological factors of chemical elements migration in geosystems” and Russian Foundation for Basic Research, RFBR 16-05-01041 “Geo-ecological aspects of migration chemical elements in natural and technogenic systems of sulfide deposits of Transbaikalia”.

The authors are grateful to Zhalsarayev B. Zh. for the X-ray fluorescence analysis, Tsyrenova A. A. for the atomic absorption spectrometry at the Geological Institute SB RAS, and Johanna M. Blake from the University of New Mexico for the consultations.

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    Angelina Sarapulova, Bayarma V. Dampilova, Irina Bardamova, Svetlana G. Doroshkevich & Olga Smirnova

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-8579-3.

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Sarapulova, A., Dampilova, B.V., Bardamova, I. et al. Heavy metals mobility associated with the molybdenum mining-concentration complex in the Buryatia Republic, Germany. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 11090–11100 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-8105-z

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