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Risks Assessment Associated with Different Sources of Metals in Abandoned Soil of Zhuxianzhuang Coal Mine, Huaibei Coalfield (Anhui, China)

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In this paper, the 36 topsoil (0–10 cm) samples were collected and the contents of Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd and Pb were analyzed. The results indicated that the contents of Cu and As in all samples exceeded the soil background values of Anhui province, while the Co and Pb contents were lower than the background values. Geo-statistics and positive matrix factorization were applied to identify the sources of soil heavy metals, which were nature factor (15.7%), industrial activities (21.2%), coal mine (50.9%) and traffic emission (12.2%), respectively. The calculation results of health risk model based on positive matrix factorization model showed that coal mine activities accounted for the largest proportion of total source contribution, followed by industrial activities. In addition, compared with adults, the trend of health risk of children from four sources in three lands were same as adults, but their health risk was higher than adults.

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Abbreviations

HMs:

Heavy metals

W.A:

Wasteland A

W.B:

Wasteland B

F.C:

Farmland C

PMF:

Positive matrix factorization

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Acknowledgements

This article is funded by National Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates, National Natural Science Foundation of China (41773100, 41373095), Research Project of Huaibei Mining Group Co. (2020) and Research Project of Wanbei Coal-electricity Group Co. Ltd (2020), and the University Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province (KJ2017A445).

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  1. School of Earth and Environment, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, 232001, Anhui, China

    Hongxia Fang, Hao Yu, Meichen Wang, Yaqi Jiang, Chunlei Wang & Chen Chen

  2. National Engineering Research Center of Coal Mine Water Hazard Controlling (Suzhou University), Suzhou, 234000, Anhui, China

    Hongxia Fang, Herong Gui, Jun Li, Hao Yu, Meichen Wang, Yaqi Jiang, Chunlei Wang, Chen Chen, Yaru Zhang & Yiheng Huang

  3. School of Resources and Environmental Engineering of Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 232000, Anhui, China

    Jun Li

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HF conceived and wrote this paper; HG revised the manuscript and collected samples; HY, MW and JL provided technical assistance of graphs; YJ, CW, YZ, YH and CC sampled and performed the experiments.

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Fang, H., Gui, H., Li, J. et al. Risks Assessment Associated with Different Sources of Metals in Abandoned Soil of Zhuxianzhuang Coal Mine, Huaibei Coalfield (Anhui, China). Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 106, 370–376 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-020-03069-4

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