A bibliographic review was carried out to establish the state of knowledge of a mining area
with several centuries of exploitation and currently abandoned. The selected case study, the …

Sulfidic mine waste can pose environmental and human health risks, especially when it
contains high levels of mobile metal (loid) s. To assess the environmental and health risks of …

Chronic exposure to arsenic may be detrimental to health. We investigated the behaviour,
remediation and risk management of arsenic in Freiberg, Germany, characterized by past …

Maritime transportation is recognized to have advantages in terms of environmental impact
compared to other forms of transportation. However, an increment in traffic volumes will also …

In this study, the bioaccessibility and the human health risks of Sb and As in soils from
**kuangshan (XKS) Sb mine, Hunan, China were investigated using two commonly used in …

Investigation of the inherent relationship between soil physicochemical properties and
pollutant's bioaccessibility (BAc) by analyzing different soil types may produce erroneous …

The remediation of heavy metal-contaminated soils has attracted increased attention
worldwide. The immobilization of metals to prevent their uptake by plants is an efficient way …

Five soils contaminated with potentially toxic elements (Cu, Pb, Zn, As, Cd) from mining
waste with different mineralogical and physico-chemical properties were amended with a …

Antimony (Sb) contamination in soil has become a major environmental issue due to its
adverse effects on ecosystems and human health. In this paper, 1255 soil samples were …

Incidental oral ingestion is the main exposure pathway by which human intake contaminants
in both soil and indoor dust, and this is especially true for children as they frequently exhibit …