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- Title
Assessing the impact of Serwis mine tailings site on farmers' wells using element and isotope signatures (Holy Cross Mountains, south-central Poland).
- Authors
Migaszewski, Zdzisław; Gałuszka, Agnieszka; Dołęgowska, Sabina; Hałas, Stanisław; Krzciuk, Karina; Gebus, Beata
- Abstract
This paper presents the results of a geochemical and isotopic study of technogenic soils and acid pool waters in the abandoned mine tailings pile and its potential impact on the adjacent farmers' wells at the village of Serwis (south-central Poland). The acid tailings pools showed strong trace element and REE signals. These acid pools were featured by the predominance of medium rare earth elements (MREE) with a strong positive Gd anomaly. The technogenic soils also revealed a MREE roof-shaped pattern, but with distinct positive excursions in Gd, Sm, Eu and Ce. The δS-SO signatures of acid pool waters (mean of 1.3 ‰) were close to those of soils and pyrite (means of 2.3 and 3.2 ‰, respectively). The waters of four farmers' wells exhibited nearly the same δS-SO values (0.7-4.0 ‰) as the nearby acid pool waters (0.3-3.1 ‰). The similar δS isotope signatures combined with the highest contents of dissolved SO (181-577 mg/L) in these wells suggest that the tailings pile is a potential source of SO derived from pyrite weathering. This relationship may also be evidenced by a spatial (site) variable dendrogram that groups these four wells into one cluster at the linkage distance ( D/ D × 100) < 53.
- Subjects
SWIETOKRZYSKIE Mountains (Poland); POLAND; GADOLINIUM isotopes; WELLS; TRACE element analysis; MOUNTAINS
- Publication
Environmental Earth Sciences, 2015, Vol 74, Issue 1, p629
- ISSN
1866-6280
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12665-015-4067-6