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 …

The regional environmental–geochemical surveying of the long-term impacts of mining and
ore processing on a large part of the Zambian Copperbelt mining district was carried out by …

Abstract Cadmium, Cu, Pb and Zn concentrations and distribution in soil, wheat, and the
potential for human heavy metal accumulation near a Pb smelting affected area were …

Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic element and non-essential to human. Herein, the source and
fate of Cd were examined in a typical sediment profile from the North River, South China …

Heavy metal (loid) s (HMs) in soils of Southwest China naturally have a high background
and are superimposed with intensive anthropogenic activities, resulting in serious …

The emerging animal-derived biochar (AB) has shown potential for mitigating the
contamination of cationic heavy metals, but has no affinity to oxyanionic metals. In this study …

Biochar is a stable carbonaceous by-product of pyrolysis and can be used for toxic metals
(TMs) retention in polluted soil. Wheat (Triticum aestivum) was grown in three polluted soils …

Zinc plant leach residues (ZPLRs) are hazardous solid wastes generated from zinc metal
production owing to their substantial contents of lead (Pb), a toxic heavy metal. This study …

Abstract The former Pb–Zn mining town of Kabwe in central Zambia is ranked amongst the
worst polluted areas both in Africa and in the world. The fine dust particles from the ISF and …

Mining and processing of ores in arid (desert) areas generates high amounts of dust, which
might be enriched in potentially harmful elements. We studied dust fractions of ores, soils …