From contaminant to commodity: a critical review of selenium usage, treatment, and recovery

A Ngan, D Ren, ZQ Chen, R Simm, F Gu - Reviews in Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Selenium, the essential toxin, is an indispensable nutrient for many organisms but quickly
becomes a significant environmental concern at slightly higher concentrations, particularly in …

Investigation of Cd contents in several phosphate rocks used for the production of fertilizer

SS Mar, M Okazaki - Microchemical Journal, 2012 - Elsevier
Phosphate rocks (PRs) can be a source of cadmium pollution in soil and food chain. PRs are
mainly used for the manufacturing of phosphate fertilizers. The characteristics of PRs with …

Opportunities and threats of selenium supply from unconventional and low-grade ores: A critical review

V Funari, HI Gomes, D Coppola, GA Vitale… - Resources …, 2021 - Elsevier
Research on selenium has increased in recent years due to its extensive use in electronic
applications, solar cells, glass industry, photocopying, cosmetic industry, and as a dietary …

Fertilizer usage and cadmium in soils, crops and food

MWC Dharma-Wardana - Environmental geochemistry and health, 2018 - Springer
Phosphate fertilizers were first implicated by Schroeder and Balassa (Science 140 (3568):
819–820, 1963) for increasing the Cd concentration in cultivated soils and crops. This …

Cadmium mass balance in French soils under annual crops: scenarios for the next century

T Sterckeman, L Gossiaux, S Guimont… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Human populations are threatened by chronic exposure to the Cd accumulated in foods
after being taken up from soils by crops. To decide whether and to what extent it is …

Geochemistry and depositional environments of Paleocene–Eocene phosphorites: Metlaoui group, Tunisia

H Garnit, S Bouhlel, I Jarvis - Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Paleocene–Early Eocene phosphorites of the Metlaoui Group in Tunisia
are a world-class phosphate resource. We review the characteristics of phosphorites …

Superphosphate fertiliser application and cadmium accumulation in a pastoral soil

FM Kelliher, CW Gray, ADL Noble - New Zealand Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
At Winchmore, single superphosphate fertiliser has been applied annually to grazed pasture
plots since 1949. To determine whether or not cadmium (Cd) in the fertiliser had …

Перспективы использования хвостов обогащения фосфоритов в качестве удобрений для органического земледелия

НВ Сырчина, ТЯ Ашихмина, НН Богатырёва… - … и прикладная экология, 2020 - elibrary.ru
Органическое земледелие и производство органических продуктов ориентированно на
использование натуральных экологически безопасных удобрений и средств защиты …

Uranium-bearing phosphatized limestones of NW Greece

IT Tzifas, A Godelitsas, A Magganas… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sedimentary Mesozoic rocks from NW Greece (Epirus region), and particularly laminated
phosphatized limestones, bedded chert-rich limestones and brecciated phosphatized …

Chemical, mineralogical and rare earth elements distribution study of phosphorites from Sra Ouertane deposit (Tunisia)

M Bouabdallah, S Elgharbi, K Horchani-Naifer… - Journal of African Earth …, 2019 - Elsevier
The chemical and mineralogical compositions of four layers (A 1, A 2, B and C) from the Sra
Ouertane phosphorite deposit were studied. Chemical characterization of each sample …