The use of copper isotopes for understanding metal transfer mechanisms within the continuum mine-river-dam (Huelva Region, Spain).
Acid mine drainage
Copper isotopes
Fractionation
Lake
River
Journal
Environmental science and pollution research international
ISSN: 1614-7499
Titre abrégé: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9441769
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2023
Apr 2023
Historique:
received:
27
07
2022
accepted:
04
02
2023
medline:
24
4
2023
pubmed:
1
3
2023
entrez:
28
2
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Mining areas and in particular those containing massive sulfides have left a heavy environmental legacy with soils and hydrographic networks highly contaminated with metals and metalloids as for example in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Huelva, Spain). Here, we present new data on copper (Cu) isotopic composition of waters and solids collected along a continuum Mine (Tharsis)-River (Meca)-Lake (Sancho) in the Iberian Pyrite Belt. Our results show that the isotopic signature of pit lakes is spatially variable, but remains stable over the seasons; this signature seems to be controlled by water-rock interaction processes. The data obtained on the Meca River imply a number of attenuation processes such as decrease in the metal concentration by precipitation of secondary minerals. This is accompanied by preferential retention of the heavy isotope (
Identifiants
pubmed: 36853539
doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-25802-2
pii: 10.1007/s11356-023-25802-2
doi:
Substances chimiques
pyrite
132N09W4PR
Copper
789U1901C5
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Metals
0
Isotopes
0
Water
059QF0KO0R
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
53275-53294Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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