ARM Susceptibility Mapping as a Proxy for Heavy Metals Loads of Soils Monitoring in the Dabaoshan Mine, South China

Author

Zhou Xu ; Xia Beicheng ; Han Yulin ; Zhang Zili ; Wei Xing

Author_Institution

Coll. of Environ. Sci. & Eng., Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Under certain circumstances, ARM susceptibility (chi_ARM) can be used as a sensitive proxy in monitoring heavy metals pollution of soils. Strong positive correlation of chi_ARM with Ag, Pb, Cu, Zn and Cr was observed in heavy metals pollution of soils by industrial contamination coming from metal-working factories, mining and traffic pollution. In this study, chi_ARM were measured with 66 samples collected from 22 soil profiles on the Hengshi River Catchments of the Guangdong Dabaoshan Mine, southern China. The result indicates that chi_ARM mapping can be effectively applied for spatial pattern and transfer pathways on chi_ARM load of magnetic minerals in soils. In terms of chi_ARM spatial delineating of magnetic mineral population in soil profiles, heavy metals concentrations of soils will be examined in the local geological and environmental setting.

Keywords

chromium; copper; industrial pollution; lead; minerals; mining; silver; soil; soil pollution; zinc; ARM susceptibility mapping; Ag; Cr; Cu; Dabaoshan Mine; Pb; Zn; heavy metals loads; industrial contamination; magnetic minerals; soils monitoring; Chromium; Contamination; Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques; Industrial pollution; Metals industry; Minerals; Mining industry; Monitoring; Soil pollution; Zinc;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2901-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2902-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5162406

Filename

5162406