Health Risk Assessment Associated with Abandoned Copper and Uranium Mine Tailings

Pehoiu, Gica; Rădulescu, Cristiana; Murărescu, Ovidiu; Dulamă, Ioana Daniela; Bucurică, Ioan Alin; Teodorescu, Sofia; Ştirbescu, Raluca Maria

doi:10.1007/s00128-019-02570-9

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“…The second area mostly regarded public health issues (see works [27,[54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]) and the impact of heavy metals on the environment in the area where the mine operates (see works [40,62,64,68,[73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90] for soil contamination investigation and works [54,64,[91][92][93][94][95][96]…”

Section: Thematic Analysis Of the Conducted Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk Assessment Methods in Mining Industry—A Systematic Review

Tubis

Werbińska-Wojciechowska

Wroblewski

2020

Applied Sciences

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Recently, there has been a growing interest in the mining industry in issues related to risk assessment and management, which is confirmed by a significant number of publications and reports devoted to these problems. However, theoretical and application studies have indicated that risk in mining should be analyzed not only in the human factor aspect, but also in strategic (environmental impact) and operational ones. However, there is a lack of research on systematic literature reviews and surveys of studies that would focus on these identified risk aspects simultaneously. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to develop a literature review in the area of analysis, assessment and risk management in the mining sector, published in the last decade and based on the concept of a human engineering system. Following this, a systematic search was performed with the use of Primo multi-search tool following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The main inclusion criteria were: (a) not older than 10 years, (b) article written in English, (c) publication type (scientific article, book, book chapter), (d) published in chosen electronic collections (Springer, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, Science Direct, JSTOR). This resulted in the selection of the 94 most relevant papers in the area. First, the general bibliometric analysis was conducted. Later, the selected papers in this review were categorized into four groups and the critical review was developed. One of the main advantages of this study is that the results are obtained from different scientific sources/databases thanks to using a multi-search tool. Moreover, the authors identified the main research gaps in the area of the implementation of risk management in the mining industry.

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Section: Thematic Analysis Of the Conducted Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk Assessment Methods in Mining Industry—A Systematic Review

Tubis

Werbińska-Wojciechowska

Wroblewski

2020

Applied Sciences

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“…Thus, the obtained results indicate that S. perfoliatum presents features specific to plants with the potential for bioaccumulation of heavy metals in soils polluted with Cu, Zn, Cr and Pb (Table 3). Pehoiu et al (2019 and2020) also report high levels of accumulation of these heavy metals, specific to the Moldova Noua mining area, for two spontaneous species in the Asteraceae family (Tarraxacum officinale and Plantago major).…”

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The cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum L.) – a viable solution for bioremediating soils polluted with heavy metals

Muntean

Kostov

Kržanović

et al. 2020

Not Bot Horti Agrobo

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Heavy metal pollution, manifested by the accumulation, toxicity and persistence in soil, water, air, and living organisms, is a major environmental problem that requires energetic resolution. Mining tailing areas contain metal minerals such as Cu, Zn, Pb, Cr and Cd in high concentrations that pollute the environment and pose threats to human health. Phytoremediation represents a sustainable, long-term, and relatively inexpensive strategy, thus proving to be convenient for stabilizing and improving the environment in former heavy metal-polluted mining sites. This study presents the bioremediation potential of Silphium perfoliatum L. plants, in the vegetative stages of leaf rosette formation, grown on soil polluted with heavy metals from mining dumps in Moldova-Noua, in the Western part of Romania. The bioaccumulation factor (BAF), translocation factor (TF), metal uptake (MU) and removal efficiency (RE) of Cu, Zn, Cr and Pb by S. perfoliatum plants were determined in a potted experiment in controlled environmental conditions. The reference quantities of heavy metals have been determined in the studied soil sample. The experiment followed the dynamics of the translocation and accumulation of heavy metals in the soil, in the various organs of the silphium plants, during the formation of the leaf rosette (13-18 BBCH). The determination of the amount of heavy metals in soil and plants was achieved by the method of digestion with hydrochloric and nitric acid 3/1 (v/v) quantified by atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). The obtained experimental results demonstrate that the substrate has a high heavy metal content being at the alert threshold for Zn (260.01 mg kg-1 in substrate compared with alert threshold 300 mg kg-1) and at intervention thresholds for other metals (Cu -234.66 mg kg-1/200 mg kg-1; 299.08 mg kg-1/300 mg kg-1 and Pb-175.18 mg kg-1/100 mg kg-1). The average concentration of the metals determined in dynamics in the dry biomass of plants varied between roots, petioles, and laminas. The root is the main accumulator for Cu and Cr (Cu – 37.32 mg kg-1 -13 BBCH to 43.89 mg kg-1-15 BBCH and 80.71 mg kg-1 – 18 BBCH; Cr – 57.43 mg kg-1 – 13 BBCH to 93.36 mg kg-1 -18 BBCH), and for Zn and Pb the lamina seems to carry the same function. Preliminary results show that Silphium perfoliatum may be a viable alternative in the bioremediation and treatment of heavy metal-contaminated area.

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“…The chronic daily intake (CDI) is one of the most significant indicators and generally is estimated based on exposure analysis through heavy metals and is used to quantify the risks of both noncancer and cancer health effects [19][20][21][22][23][24]. The equation (1.1) was proposed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) [26] and taken over in other studies with slight modifications [13,26]:…”

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Associated Health Risks From Heavy Metal-Laden Influent/Effluent From Wastewater Treatment Plant

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The wastewater treatment process significantly decreases the negative impact of the effluent on human health compared to the influent. This probabilistic study, based on mathematical formulas, which does not involve clinical studies, investigates the impact of polluting chemical elements on health, which may be higher or lower, depending on other direct or indirect factors. The conclusions from this study were (1) wastewater (the effluent, which falls within legal limits) cannot be used for domestic consumption, much less as drinking water; (2) regarding dermal absorption, this can only be possible if people use the wastewater (influent/effluent) for recreational purposes (bathing, fishing, etc.). If this were theoretically possible, the risks related to the respective water matrices can be much higher because in this study only five heavy metals (Cd, Pb, Cu, Ni, and Zn) found in the international legislation in the categories of substances with carcinogenic risk, were investigated in the wastewater, and it may also contain other substances with different risk degrees. In the future studies will be investigated the health risk assessment gradient related to the effluent from the point of discharge of the wastewater on the flow of the natural receiver.

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Health Risk Assessment Associated with Abandoned Copper and Uranium Mine Tailings

Cited by 26 publications

References 14 publications

Risk Assessment Methods in Mining Industry—A Systematic Review

Risk Assessment Methods in Mining Industry—A Systematic Review

The cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum L.) – a viable solution for bioremediating soils polluted with heavy metals

Associated Health Risks From Heavy Metal-Laden Influent/Effluent From Wastewater Treatment Plant

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