Heavy metals contamination and magnetic susceptibility in soils around metallurgical plant

Magnetic monitoring of top soils of Merida (Southern Mexico)

“…Although it may be difficult to interpret the results due to the soil composition, it had been found a good correlation between the magnetic susceptibility and the content in Cr, Pb, Zn and Cu (Petrovský et al, 2000;Ďurža, 1999;Hoffmann et al, 1999;Bityukova et al, 1999;Muxworthy et al, 2003;Desenfant et al, 2004;Hanesch and Scholger, 2002). Also, the good correlations have been found by analyzing more than one magnetic parameter such as IRM (isothermal remanent magnetization) and ARM (anhysteretic remanent magnetization) (Georgeaud et al, 1997;Lecoanet et al, 2003;Hu et al, 2007).…”

Solid/solution partitioning and speciation of heavy metals in the contaminated agricultural soils around a copper mine in eastern Nanjing city, China

“…As a result of increased input from industry, traffic and agriculture, the average soil heavy metal concentration in some industrialized areas has increased considerably [1], especially in the vicinity of mining and metallurgical industries [2][3][4][5]. It is accepted that total soil heavy metal concentration alone is not a good measure of bioavailability to determine the potential environmental and human health risks from soil contamination [6,7].…”

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“…Magnetic susceptibility of respirable pollutant particles has been shown to have a strong correlation to heavy metals such as Pb, Zn, Cd, and As and, furthermore, to their mutagenic potency, i.e., their ability to cause mutations in the genome (Morris et al, 1995;Ďurža, 1999;Petrovský et al, 2001;Shu et al, 2001;Morales et al 2016). Morris et al (1995) first indicated that there is a direct association between magnetic susceptibility and mutagenic potency of inhalable PM (content of PAH).…”