Trace elements biomonitoring in a historical mining district (les Malines, France)

Saunier, Jean-Baptiste; Losfeld, Guillaume; Freydier, Rémi; Grison, Claude

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.07.024

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“…In these past decades, geochemists have been developing and employing a set of techniques to differentiate the mineral reactivity, or bioreactivity, of metals in a number of media, including soils, water, gastric fluid, and pulmonary fluid (Agemian & Chau, 1976;Sheppard & Thibault, 1992;Ure et al, 1992;Ruby et al, 1996;Hamel et al, 1998;Dollar et al, 2001;Plumlee et al, 2006;Reeder et al, 2006;Plumlee & Morman, 2011;Xie et al, 2012;Saunier et al, 2013), as it pertains to human health. Much of this work involves selective extractions in the lab and/or field-based studies, using geochemical sensors, phytological responses, or animal models.…”

Section: Soil Geochemistry and Human Exposure Potentialmentioning

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New Approaches to Identifying and Reducing the Global Burden of Disease From Pollution

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Pollution from multiple sources causes significant disease and death worldwide. Some sources are legacy, such as heavy metals accumulated in soils, and some are current, such as particulate matter. Because the global burden of disease from pollution is so high, it is important to identify legacy and current sources and to develop and implement effective techniques to reduce human exposure. But many limitations exist in our understanding of the distribution and transport processes of pollutants themselves, as well as the complicated overprint of human behavior and susceptibility. New approaches are being developed to identify and eliminate pollution in multiple environments. Community-scale detection of geogenic arsenic and fluoride in Bangladesh is helping to map the distribution of these harmful elements in drinking water. Biosensors such as bees and their honey are being used to measure heavy metal contamination in cities such as Vancouver and Sydney. Drone-based remote sensors are being used to map metal hot spots in soils from former mining regions in Zambia and Mozambique. The explosion of low-cost air monitors has allowed researchers to build dense air quality sensing networks to capture ephemeral and local releases of harmful materials, building on other developments in personal exposure sensing. And citizen science is helping communities without adequate resources measure their own environments and in this way gain agency in controlling local pollution exposure sources and/or alerting authorities to environmental hazards. The future of GeoHealth will depend on building on these developments and others to protect a growing population from multiple pollution exposure risks. Plain Language SummaryThe health burdens of legacy contaminants, and the continuing global health burdens of current pollution, are crippling both global health and well-being. Much of the exposure science on these relatively well-studied pollutants is known, as is the general toxicity of past pollutants. But there is a great distance between understanding the toxicity and exposure sources of environmental pollutants and applying that knowledge in practical and just ways. This contribution summarizes several major repositories and ongoing sources of soil, dust, and air pollution and addresses the harmful effects from exposure to these. We also highlight some examples of the future of GeoHealth research in this area by providing case studies of current novel approaches that focus on bridging the science of pollution sources and distribution with real applications at the community level to reduce pollution's role in the global burden of disease.

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Section: Soil Geochemistry and Human Exposure Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…The influence of mining activities on soil pollution by heavy metals is presented in a certain number of papers [16][17][18][19][20]. In the area of the Zrinski Mines, situated near the FM on the Medvednica Mt., there is pollution by heavy metals, primary by Hg, but also Cd and Pb [21][22][23].…”

Section: Forest Soil Pollution With Heavy Metals (Pb Zn CD and Cu)mentioning

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Forest Soil Pollution with Heavy Metals (Pb, Zn, Cd, and Cu) in the Area of the “French Mines” on the Medvednica Mountain, Republic of Croatia

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Pernar³

et al. 2017

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There are many various environmentally hazardous substances, but researchers around the world are especially interested in heavy metals. Heavy metals are naturally occurring elements that have a high atomic weight and a density at least 5 times greater than that of water [1]. From a biological point of view, Nieboer and Richardson [2] have classified heavy metals into three groups: (i) elements essential to some organisms (V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Zn, and Mo), (ii) elements necessary for growth and development of plants (Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, Mo, and Ni), and (iii) phytotoxic elements (Cd, Hg, and Pb). World Health Organization (WHO) has classified As, Cd, Hg, and Pb among 10 groups of hazardous chemicals. Those are elements which have toxicological characteristics. Moreover, when their concentrations increase, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Se, Ag, Sb, and especially Cr and Ti are also considered toxic [3]. Since the pollution of soil by heavy metals is one of the possible causes of a decrease in forest ecosystem vitality and degradation of the whole habitat, there is a significant scientific interest in research of the connection of heavy metal concentration values in the environment to their degradation effect [4]. In higher concentrations heavy metals

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“…Hypogymnia physodes, Evernia prunastri, Ramalina farinacea. Distribution patterns of heavy metals can reveal hot spot areas and point sources [6][7][8]. Often metal distribution in epiphytic lichens can be explained by land use, such as urban and industrial areas, traffic and green areas etc.…”

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Biomonitoring of air borne metal pollution

Lodenius

2014

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Mosses, lichens and vascular plants may be used for monitoring airborne pollution, e.g. wet and dry deposition of metals in polluted areas. Best results are achieved when using transplantation methods including exposure for a certain period of time. Spreading of metals around point sources can be followed with great accuracy. Often at least semi quantitative estimates of deposition can be made. Biomonitoring methods are cheap and efficient but relations to results achieved by technical methods should be evaluated in more detail.

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Trace elements biomonitoring in a historical mining district (les Malines, France)

Cited by 44 publications

References 35 publications

New Approaches to Identifying and Reducing the Global Burden of Disease From Pollution

New Approaches to Identifying and Reducing the Global Burden of Disease From Pollution

Forest Soil Pollution with Heavy Metals (Pb, Zn, Cd, and Cu) in the Area of the “French Mines” on the Medvednica Mountain, Republic of Croatia

Biomonitoring of air borne metal pollution

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