“…7a), lignite, sulphur, metal ore mining and processing sites (Fig. 7b) (Znamirowska-Karaś, 2001;Greinert et al, 2013b;Pietrzykowski et al, 2011;Pietrzykowski and Likus-Cieślik, 2018;Uzarowicz, 2011), landfills/heaps of ash and slag from coal/lignite burning (Maciak, 1978;Weber et al, 2015;Uzarowicz et al, 2017Uzarowicz et al, , 2018Gilewska et al, 2020) and landfills of variable industrial wastes (Sutkowska et al, 2015;Zielińska et al, 2017). Also, soils of former factories may contain layers or dispersed admixtures of the industrial wastes (Fig.…”