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 …

The quality of soils polluted by trace elements around the facilities with the Cu and Zn
smelting activities and the post-flotation tailings pond from copper industry were assessed …

Europe's largest copper ore tailings impoundment has been considered a potential source
of risk for human health, thus leading to the elimination of agricultural production in the …

Metals can accumulate in agricultural soils, presenting a serious threat to human health;
therefore, it is important to analyze the quality of these soils to avoid possible harm related to …

The study was carried out on forest soils in the vicinity of a copper ore tailings facility and a
copper smelter in Lower Silesia, Poland. Soil and litter samples were collected in the …

A 11-m-long lake sediment core of a mountain lake situated at 1225 m asl in the Karkonosze
Mountains (Poland) provided a unique, multi-proxy archive to reconstruct natural and human …

Abstract Seasonal variability of Cu, Pb, and Zn concentrations in litter leachates and soil
solutions was examined in an afforested zone surrounding a copper smelter in SW Poland …

Little is known about the problem of soil contamination with antimony in Poland. Soil
samples examined in this study represented two different kinds of Sb-enriched areas …

Soil is a non-renewable environment in which, depending on the prevailing O 2 conditions,
two opposite processes–methanogenesis and methanotrophy-may take place. The rates of …

An appropriate sampling method that provides for the representation of the collected
material and the reliability of results plays a crucial role in environmental monitoring. This is …