Trace elements contamination of soils around gold mine …
Levels of As, Cu, Pb and Zn in soils around active and decommissioned gold mine tailings dams at Obuasi, Ghana (mg/kg). Trace element Tailings dam sites Total count Mean SE mean …
Levels of heavy metals and contamination status of a …
In a bid to determine the contamination status of a decommissioned Tailings Storage Facility (TSF 2) from Chirano Gold Mine limited (CGML), scoop of mine tailings were collected down to a …
Trace elements contamination of soils around …
Soil samples taken from depths of up to 12 cm and within a radius of 400 m from the tailings dams (active and decommissioned), were analysed for As, Cu, Pb and Zn using atomic absorption...
Levels of As, Cu, Pb and Zn in soils around active and decommissioned
Download Table | Levels of As, Cu, Pb and Zn in soils around active and decommissioned gold mine tailings dams at Obuasi, Ghana (mg/kg). from publication: Trace elements contamination …
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Levels of heavy metals and contamination status of a decommissioned …
Heavy metal pollution from tailings has become a major global concern due to its toxicity, persistence and accumulative potential with its detrimental effects on public health and …
Levels of heavy metals and contamination status …
Tailings dam is the main heavy metal pollution source in mining areas. In this study, the concentration of heavy metals in soil and water from upstream and downstream of the tailings dam...
Map of study area showing tailings dams.
South Africa, like several other mining countries such as Spain, Morocco, Mexico and Ghana, faces soil deterioration due to heavy metal contamination from unrehabilitated mine tailing …
Tailings management | Sustainability
Gold Fields Ghana is committed to the safe and stable design, sustainable development, construction, operation and closure of our tailings storage facilities (TSFs). To ensure this, tailings management at Gold Fields Ghana is …
Soil profile of Obuasi (Bowell, 1991) (Profile not drawn to …
Antwi-Agyei et al. (2009) pointed out that a large amount of trace element (As, Cu, Zn, and Pb) pollution in soil is related to the tailings dam of metal mines and revealed the transport …
Trace elements contamination of soils around gold mine tailings dams …
This study investigated the issue of tailings dams as a potential source of trace elements contamination in soils at the Obuasi gold mine in Ghana. Soil samples taken from depths of up …
Levels of heavy metals and contamination status of a decommissioned …
In a bid to determine the contamination status of a decommissioned tailings storage facility (TSF 2) from the Chirano Gold Mine Limited (CGML), scoop of mine tailings …
TSF IN PERSPECTIVE
Cell-partition or compartilization optimizes storage and reduces/controls cascading of tails movement during failure. Small alterations of topography impedes tailings flow. Dams should …
TSF IN PERSPECTIVE
Tailings Dams can be built as high as 150m and of area size of tens hundreds of hectares; as well as multiple in numbers on a Mine Site. ... Ghana's Regulatory Agencies have recently …
decommissioned tailings dams in ghana
Management of Tailings Storage Facilities - Gold Fields,7 Jun 2019 upstream tailings dams in Ghana have been constructed from imported fill all tailings storage facilities with upstream …
Potential toxic elements accumulation in soils and parts of …
The tailings dams at Bogoso were decommissioned in 2013/2014 and reclaimed with palm oil trees in 2016. The area of each palm (Elaeis guineensis) reclaimed or tailings …
33 LEVELS OF HEAVY METALS AND CONTAMINATION …
Geoaccumulation Index (Igeo), enrichment Factor (EF) contamination degree (Cd), modified degree of contamination (mCd), pollution Load Index (PLI), ecological risk factor (Er)
LEVELS OF HEAVY METALS AND CONTAMINATION …
EQA – Environmental quality / Qualité de l'Environnement / Qualità ambientale, 35 (2019) 33-50 DOI: 10.6092/issn.2281-4485/9060 33 LEVELS OF HEAVY METALS AND CONTAMINATION …
Trace elements contamination of soils around gold mine …
This study investigated the issue of tailings dams as a potential source of trace elements contamination in soils at the Obuasi gold mine in Ghana. Soil samples taken from depths of up …
Levels of heavy metals and contamination status of a …
Heavy metal pollution from tailings has become a major global concern due to its toxicity, persistence and accumulative potential with its detrimental effects on public health and …