Soil pollution of abandoned tailings in one zinc antimony mine and heavy metal accumulation characteristics of dominant plants

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10.2991/mebe-15.2015.115How to use a DOI?

Keywords

zinc antimony mine; abandoned tailings; heavy metal; soil pollution; dominant plant; phytoremediation..

Abstract

This paper analyzes heavy metal content in the soil of abandoned tailings and dominant plants, and absorption and bioconcentration capability as well as cumulative characteristics of the four kinds of dominant plants such as Phragmites australis, Typha angustifolia, Miscanthus sinensis, Equisetum fluviatile for heavy metals Pb, Zn, Sb, Cu, Cr, Cd, As and Mn through investigating samples of the zinc antimony ore abandoned tailings. The results manifest that investigated eight heavy metals contents in the abandoned tailings all exceed soil background values of both Guangxi and the whole nation. Abandoned tailings soil is polluted most seriously by Mn, Sb and Cd, followed by As, zinc and Pb.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xu Jin
AU  - Shaohong You
PY  - 2015/04
DA  - 2015/04
TI  - Soil pollution of abandoned tailings in one zinc antimony mine and heavy metal accumulation characteristics of dominant plants
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Materials, Environmental and Biological Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 500
EP  - 504
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/mebe-15.2015.115
DO  - 10.2991/mebe-15.2015.115
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