“…It should be noted that coal mining is associated with the release of metals with genotoxic properties (Kopp et al, 2018), often found in elevated concentrations in coal mine tailings and waste, and leaching into agricultural soils typically in a concentration sequence of As > Zn > Ni > Cd > Cr > Cu > Pb (Li et al, 2019). Coal often also contains U (Lauer et al, 2017) with known neurotoxic and genotoxic properties (Berntsson et al, 2023).…”