“…The correlation coefficient of vanadium was calculated with some major, minor, trace elements, and some soil properties, (Table 9). Vanadium showed a positive correlation with Al2O3, it may be due to accompanying in bauxite mineral (Ruyters et al, 2011), and attributed to direct adsorption on clay minerals (Ivanov and Kashin, 2010), or indirect by the negative charge reflection mechanism of the clay minerals surfaces, so Al +3 ions can adsorb to the surfaces of clay minerals, and change their charge to positive and lead to the adsorption of vanadium, potassium ions also act by the same mechanism and this is observed through the positive correlation with K2O (Huang and Yang, 2020). Vanadium showed a positive correlation with MgO with a value of r = 0.91 which may be due to their geochemistry accompanying in clay minerals and silicate minerals, or for the similarity of their sources as a result of weathering dolomite rocks containing about 30-120 mg/kg of magnesium (Gransee and Führs, 2013;Mayland and Wilkinson, 1989).…”