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Massive quantities of marine sedimentary rock are excavated from urban coastal areas. The excavated rock often releases arsenic with concurrent oxidation of framboidal pyrite, but the arsenic release is naturally suppressed with subsequent atmospheric exposure. The present study evaluated the re-release of arsenic from excavated rock in which arsenic release has been naturally suppressed by the atmospheric exposure in the presence of sulfate ions under various redox conditions using the biological reduction method. The atmospheric exposure and subsequent batch leaching test revealed that the amount of arsenic release that was naturally suppressed corresponded to 1.2% of the total arsenic content. The sequential extraction analysis also showed that the arsenic in the exposed rock was altered to insoluble phases. We observed a re-release of 6.0–18.2% of the total arsenic content under reductive conditions (< + 70 mV of Eh), exceeding the amount of arsenic that was naturally suppressed, even in the presence of sulfate ions. The correlation in the amount of arsenic and iron re-released demonstrates that arsenic re-release under reductive conditions is mainly regulated by the iron dissolution up to 10 mg kg−1 even in the presence of sulfate ion. Further reduction and dissolution of iron did not cause further increase in the arsenic re-release. Therefore, excavated marine sedimentary rock should be reused under redox conditions in which iron is not reduced. Otherwise, treatments such as chemical immobilization should be performed.
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Kamata, A., Ueshima, M., Sakanakura, H. et al. The effects of redox conditions on arsenic re-release from excavated marine sedimentary rock with naturally suppressed arsenic release. Environ Geochem Health 44, 4157–4171 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-01178-5
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