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Heavy Metals Pollution Characteristics and Health Risk Assessment of Farmland Soils and Agricultural Products in a Mining Area of Henan Province, China

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: The development of mineral resources has promoted the rapid development of the social economy.However, mining and mineral processing are regarded as a primary source of heavy metals contamination in the environment due to activities of mineral excavation, ore transportation, smelting, and refining [1-5].Among all mining wastes, tailings are a solid waste with especially high toxic heavy metals produced in the process of mining, mineral processing and smelting, which are considered the greatest threat to ecological stability due

Source: Polish Journal of Environmental Studies

DOI: 10.15244/pjoes/115273

Authors: Fawen Zhang, Yulong He, Changmin Zhao, Yuanbo Kou, Kai Huang

Institution: Henan Agricultural University

Language: English

Topic: Heavy metals in environment

Subfield: Pollution

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Responsible consumption and production

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China