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<p>Coal mining is a vital industrial activity but often associated with negative environmental effects, including the accumulation of waste containing heavy metals in tailings dump. These heavy metals, such as lead, chromium, copper, zinc, cadmium, mercury, and others, pose significant risks to the environment and human health. The mobility of these heavy metals is a major concern, as they can be released into soil and water during rain or erosion processes, contaminating water sources and affecting aquatic and terrestrial life. These metals can be taken over by plants and eventually end up in the trophic chain, including in humans. The toxicity of heavy metals is well known, with these substances having harmful effects on human health. In this paper, the main ways of transferring heavy metals into environmental components and their spatial distribution from sterile holes to water and soil environment components. As a case study, the sterile Balomir hole, an inactive hole for about 9 years resulting from the exploitation of the hule from the Uricani mine located in the Jiu Valley.</p>
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Coal mining is a vital industrial activity but often associated with negative environmental effects, including the accumulation of waste containing heavy metals in tailings dump. These heavy metals, such as lead, chromium, copper, zinc, cadmium, mercury, and others, pose significant risks to the environment and human health. The mobility of these heavy metals is a major concern, as they can be released into soil and water during rain or erosion processes, contaminating water sources and affecting aquatic and terrestrial life. These metals can be taken over by plants and eventually end up in the trophic chain, including in humans. The toxicity of heavy metals is well known, with these substances having harmful effects on human health. In this paper, the main ways of transferring heavy metals into environmental components and their spatial distribution from sterile holes to water and soil environment components. As a case study, the sterile Balomir hole, an inactive hole for about 9 years resulting from the exploitation of the hule from the Uricani mine located in the Jiu Valley.

Researches on the Mobility and Toxicity of Heavy Metals from Balomir Tailings Dump – Uricani Jiu Valley

Mining Revue

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Coal mining is a vital industrial activity but often associated with negative environmental effects, including the accumulation of waste containing heavy...

Researches on the Mobility and Toxicity of Heavy Metals from Balomir Tailings Dump – Uricani Jiu Valley

Published Online: Jul 03, 2024

Page range: 44 - 52

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/minrv-2024-0014

Keywords
contamination, mobility, toxicity, heavy metals, tailings dump, soil

© 2024 Mădălina-Flavia Ioniţă et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Researches on the Mobility and Toxicity of Heavy Metals from Balomir Tailings Dump – Uricani Jiu Valley

Published Online: Jul 03, 2024

Page range: 44 - 52

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/minrv-2024-0014

Keywordscontamination, mobility, toxicity, heavy metals, tailings dump, soil

© 2024 Mădălina-Flavia Ioniţă et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Keywords
contamination, mobility, toxicity, heavy metals, tailings dump, soil