2024
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58117-4
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Risk assessment and source analysis of heavy metals in soil around an asbestos mine in an arid plateau region, China

Xuwei Li,
Da Ding,
Wenyi Xie
et al.

Abstract: Asbestos is widely used in construction, manufacturing, and other common industrial fields. Human activities such as mining, processing, and transportation can release heavy metals from asbestos into the surrounding soil environment, posing a health hazard to the mining area's environment and its surrounding residents. The purpose of the present study was to determine the extent of ecological and human health damage caused by asbestos pollution, as well as the primary contributors to the contamination, by exam… Show more

Help me understand this report
View preprint versions

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

0
0
0

Year Published

2024
2024
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
2

Relationship

0
2

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 2 publications
references
References 58 publications
0
0
0
Order By: Relevance