The increasing generation of toxic heavy metals from smelting activities poses significant
threat to food safety, human health, and soil ecosystem, due to their unacceptable exposure …

Contamination by heavy metals is a significant issue worldwide. In recent decades, soil
heavy metals pollutants in China had adverse impacts on soil quality and threatened food …

Heavy metals (HMs) pollution is a universal and complex problem at lead smelting sites.
Further understanding on the distribution, coexistence relationship and occurrence form of …

Non-ferrous smelting is a primary cause of serious soil pollution. Contamination and health
risks of heavy metals in soils around various types of non-ferrous smelteries in China were …

This review summarizes over 160 studies focused on soil contamination near non-ferrous
metal smelters. The methods of these investigations were examined with an emphasis on …

Although mining is Zambia's major economic activity, it is implicated in environmental
contamination, particularly with heavy metals. This study investigated the accumulation and …

The increasing demand for minerals pressurizing the mining authorities to extract low-grade
ore results in more mining waste and degradation of the environment. The main aim of …

Smelting activity by its very nature produces large amounts of metal-bearing waste, often
called metallurgical slag (s). In the past, industry used to dispose of these waste products at …

Understanding the level of heavy metal contamination coupled with the assessment of
environmental and human risks associated with mine waste dumpsites is an important step …

The active Panasqueira mine is a tin–tungsten (Sn–W) mineralization hosted by
metasediments with quartz veins rich in ferberite. The economic exploitation has been …