Origin and spatial distribution of heavy metals and carcinogenic risk assessment in mining areas at You'xi County southeast China

• Published in: Geoderma Vol. 310; pp. 99 - 106
• Main Authors: Lü, Jian, Jiao, Wen-Bin, Qiu, Hai-Yuan, Chen, Ben, Huang, Xiao-Xia, Kang, Bin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15.01.2018
• Subjects: agricultural soils; arsenic; atmospheric deposition; cadmium; Carcinogenic risk; China; chromium; copper; geographic information systems; geostatistics; Heavy metal pollution; heavy metals; humans; lead; mercury; mining; neoplasms; Pb–Zn mine; risk assessment; soil organic matter; soil parent materials; Soil quality; soil sampling; zinc; China; Soil quality; Pb–Zn mine; Heavy metal pollution; Carcinogenic risk

An extensive study on the spatial distribution and source apportionment of heavy metals in soils and so by risk assessment at You'xi County, a major Pb–Zn mining area southeast China, was conducted in this contribution. A total of 93 soil samples were examined with the concentration of heavy me...