“…While estimating wastes from placer gold and tin ore processing (including those from the placer gold concentrating plant and tailings dump) [6,11] as a source of environmental pollution, it should be kept in mind that these wastes have long been accumulated as piles within the mining village area; for instance, the placer gold concentrating wastes have been stored for more than a century. The major part of the heavy fraction therein is represented by magnetite, hematite, sulfides (pyrite, cinnabar, in some cases, halenite).…”