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    Tracing Copper Migration in the Tongling Area through Copper Isotope Values in Soils and Waters

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    Su, Jingwen
    Mathur, Ryan
    Brumm, Glen
    D'Amico, Peter
    Godfrey, Linda
    Ruiz, Joaquin
    Song, Shiming
    Affiliation
    Univ Arizona, Dept Geosci
    Issue Date
    2018-11-27
    Keywords
    Tongling
    copper concentration
    copper isotopes
    mining
    
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    Su J, Mathur R, Brumm G, D’Amico P, Godfrey L, Ruiz J, Song S. Tracing Copper Migration in the Tongling Area through Copper Isotope Values in Soils and Waters. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2018; 15(12):2661.
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    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
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    Abstract
    Copper mining in Tongling has occurred since the Bronze Age, and this area is known as one of the first historic places where copper has been, and is currently, extracted. Multiple studies have demonstrated, through concentrated work on soils and waters, the impact of mining in the area. Here we present copper isotope values of 13 ore samples, three tailing samples, 20 water samples (surface and groundwater), and 94 soil samples (15 different profiles ranging in depth from 0-2 m) from proximal to distal (up to 10 km) locations radiating from a tailings dam and tailings pile. Oxidation of the copper sulfide minerals results in isotopically heavier oxidized copper. Thus, copper sourced from sulfide minerals has been used to trace copper in mining and environmental applications. At Tongling, higher copper isotope values (greater than 1 per mil, which are interpreted to be derived from copper sulfide weathering) are found both in waters and the upper portions of soils (5-100 cm) within 1 km of the source tailings. At greater than 1 km, the soils do not possess heavier copper isotope values; however, the stream water samples that have low copper concentrations have heavier values up to 6.5 km from the source. The data suggest that copper derived from the mining activities remains relatively proximal in the soils but can be traced in the waters at greater distances.
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    1660-4601
    PubMed ID
    30486379
    DOI
    10.3390/ijerph15122661
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    Final published version
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    China Geological Survey Projects: 1:50,000 scale environmental geological survey of Anqing-Ma'an'shan section of Economic Belt along Yangtze River in Anhui Province [DD20160247]; National Natural Science Fund of China: Characteristics of biomarkers in Antarctic Lake sediment and Its Response to the ancient environment [41206187]
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