“…Lead isotopic studies provide a convincing approach to studying and tracing the geogenic and/or anthropogenic sources of Pb in different environmental matrices, i.e., waters, soils, sediments, rocks, aerosols, peat deposits, tree rings (plants) etc (Bollhöfer et al 1999, Bollhöfer & Rosman 2000, Chen et al 2005, Gioia et al 2006, Gulson et al 2007, Komárek et al 2008, Rosman et al 1993, Rosman & Taylor 1998. In addition, it is particularly useful to demonstrate and identify the anthropogenic input from different sources of Pb from various mining activities, such as uranium/thorium mining and others with potential to generate Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) (Chow et al 1975, Gulson et al 1989, Bollhöfer & Martin 2003, Moraes et al 2004, Ketterer et al 2010, Vecchia 2015, Vecchia et al 2015.…”