Heavy metal content and toxicity of mine and quarry soils

Lago-Vila, Manoel; Rodríguez-Seijo, Andrés; Arenas-Lago, Daniel; Andrade, Liliana María; Vega, Maria Flora Alonso

doi:10.1007/s11368-016-1354-0

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“…Several methods of determining bioavailable forms of zinc in soils have been described (Ure et al 1993 ; Rauret 1998 ; Degryse et al 2003 ; Pueyo et al 2004 ; Meers et al 2007 ; Anju and Banerjee 2011 ; Baran 2012 ; Fedotov et al 2012 ; Baran et al 2014 ; Czech et al 2014b ; Kim et al 2015 ; Rutkowska et al 2015 ). A number of studies have indicated that bioassays are a good tool for the assessment of the ecological risk of zinc (Baran 2013 ; Baran and Jasiewicz 2013 ; Baran et al 2014 ; Wieczorek and Baran 2013 ; Lago-Vila et al 2016 ; Romero-Freire et al 2016 ). Other authors suggest that mapping of the spatial distribution of zinc-polluted soils is necessary for human and ecological risk assessment (Hani and Pazira 2011 ; Kizilkaya et al 2011 ; Liu et al 2013b ; Krami et al 2013 ; Delavar and Safari 2016 ).…”

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Potential ecological risk assessment and predicting zinc accumulation in soils

Baran

Wieczorek

Mazurek

et al. 2017

Environ Geochem Health

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The aims of this study were to investigate zinc content in the studied soils; evaluate the efficiency of geostatistics in presenting spatial variability of zinc in the soils; assess bioavailable forms of zinc in the soils and to assess soil–zinc binding ability; and to estimate the potential ecological risk of zinc in soils. The study was conducted in southern Poland, in the Malopolska Province. This area is characterized by a great diversity of geological structures and types of land use and intensity of industrial development. The zinc content was affected by soil factors, and the type of land use (arable lands, grasslands, forests, wastelands). A total of 320 soil samples were characterized in terms of physicochemical properties (texture, pH, organic C content, total and available Zn content). Based on the obtained data, assessment of the ecological risk of zinc was conducted using two methods: potential ecological risk index and hazard quotient. Total Zn content in the soils ranged from 8.27 to 7221 mg kg−1 d.m. Based on the surface semivariograms, the highest variability of zinc in the soils was observed from northwest to southeast. The point sources of Zn contamination were located in the northwestern part of the area, near the mining–metallurgical activity involving processing of zinc and lead ores. These findings were confirmed by the arrangement of semivariogram surfaces and bivariate Moran’s correlation coefficients. The content of bioavailable forms of zinc was between 0.05 and 46.19 mg kg−1 d.m. (0.01 mol dm−3 CaCl2), and between 0.03 and 71.54 mg kg−1 d.m. (1 mol dm−3 NH4NO3). Forest soils had the highest zinc solubility, followed by arable land, grassland and wasteland. PCA showed that organic C was the key factor to control bioavailability of zinc in the soils. The extreme, very high and medium zinc accumulation was found in 69% of studied soils. There is no ecological risk of zinc to living organisms in the study area, and in 90% of the soils there were no potentially negative effects of zinc to ecological receptors.

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Potential ecological risk assessment and predicting zinc accumulation in soils

Baran

Wieczorek

Mazurek

et al. 2017

Environ Geochem Health

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“…A number of researchers have shown that the accumulation of Zn in the soil-plant system is a good tool for assessing environmental risk (Romero-Freire et al, 2016;Lago-Vila et al, 2017). Other authors suggest that mapping of the spatial distribution of zinc-polluted soil is necessary for human and ecological risk assessment (Hani & Pazira, 2011;Delavar & Safari, 2016;Baran et al, 2018).…”

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Geoecological Features of Zinc Accumulation in the Soil - Plants System of Urban Ecosystems

Maslennikov¹

2021

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The study aims to determine zinc accumulation in urban soil and in common urban landscape species of woodlands, bushes and herbaceous plants (22 species). Maximum metal concentration was observed in the soil of landscapes of industrial-utility and in residential multistore areas with increased transport load (125.7-154.7 mg/kg -1 ). Zinc (Zn) content of plant leaves in urban areas depended on its concentration in soil (r = 0.86-0.99, p<0.05) and the vegetation period. The minimum Zn content in plant leaves was observed at the beginning of the growing season (May), and later with increasing age and leaf blade area, the metal concentration increased, reaching a maximum in October. The highest rates of metal bioaccumulation were found in Syringa vulgaris (1.24 %), Rosa rugosa (1.17 %) and Populus nigra (1.1 %). These species will be useful for phytoremediation of areas moderately polluted with Zn. A decrease in Zn BAC and an increase in its concentration in the soil were identified in the majority of plant species. Plant species capable of limiting the entry of Zn from the environment were also identified.

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“…Mining activities are the main source of heavy metal wastes and pollution, resulting in partial, or even total, loss of the vegetation cover (Lago‐Vila et al, 2017). This, in turn, intensifies the destruction of natural soils enhancing the mobility and leaching of contaminating heavy metals to the environment (Barceló‐Quintal et al, 2015).…”

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Identification of the endosymbionts from Sulla spinosissima growing in a lead mine tailings in Eastern Morocco as Mesorhizobium camelthorni sv. aridi

Lamin

Alami

Bouhnik

et al. 2020

J. Appl. Microbiol.

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Aims To identify the bacteria nodulating Sulla spinosissima growing profusely in a lead and zinc mine tailings in Eastern Morocco. Methods and Results In all, 32 rhizobial cultures, isolated from root nodules of S. spinosissima growing in soils of the mining site, were tolerant to different heavy metals. The ERIC‐polymerase chain reaction (PCR) fingerprinting analysis clustered the isolates into seven different groups, and the analysis of the 16S rRNA sequences of four selected representative strains, showed they were related to different species of the genus Mesorhizobium. The atpD, glnII and recA housekeeping genes analysis confirmed the affiliation of the four representative strains to Mesorhizobium camelthorni CCNWXJ40‐4T, with similarity percentages varying from 96·30 to 98·30%. The sequences of the nifH gene had 97·33–97·78% similarities with that of M. camelthorni CCNWXJ40‐4T; however, the nodC phylogeny of the four strains diverged from the type and other reference strains of M. camelthorni and formed a separated cluster. The four strains nodulate also Astragalus gombiformis and A. armatus but did not nodulate A. boeticus, Vachellia gummifera, Prosopis chilensis, Cicer arietinum, Lens culinaris, Medicago truncatula, Lupinus luteus or Phaseolus vulgaris. Conclusions Based on similarities of the nodC symbiotic gene and differences in the host range, the strains isolated from S. spinosissima growing in soils of the Sidi Boubker mining site may form a different symbiovar within Mesorhizobium for which the name aridi is proposed. Significance and Impact of the Study In this work, we show that strains of M. camelthorni species nodulating S. spinosissima in the arid area of Eastern Morocco constitute a distinct phylogenetic clade of nodulation genes; we named symbiovar aridi, which encompasses also mesorhizobia from other Mediterranean desert legumes.

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Heavy metal content and toxicity of mine and quarry soils

Cited by 21 publications

References 45 publications

Potential ecological risk assessment and predicting zinc accumulation in soils

Potential ecological risk assessment and predicting zinc accumulation in soils

Geoecological Features of Zinc Accumulation in the Soil - Plants System of Urban Ecosystems

Identification of the endosymbionts from Sulla spinosissima growing in a lead mine tailings in Eastern Morocco as Mesorhizobium camelthorni sv. aridi

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