TY - JOUR
T1 - Water pollution assessment of an abandoned copper mine in Lasail, sultanate of Oman
AU - Palanivel, Thenmozhi Murugaian
AU - Victor, Reginald
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to acknowledge the Department of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University for partially supporting this project.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Abandoned mining sites are largely responsible for the release of heavy metals into water systems. This study assessed heavy metals in the water collected from the mine sumps and bore-wells of an abandoned copper mine in Lasail, northern Oman. Other physiochemical parameters of the water were also evaluated. The waters were extremely acidic with very high electrical conductivity. Aluminium (Al), boron (B), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), mercury (Hg), manganese (Mn) and zinc (Zn) were in very high concentrations, well above the limits recommended by Oman and World Health Organisation (WHO) standards. The principal component analysis (PCA) explained 93% of the variability. The impact of mining on the water quality of Lasail area is presented and remediation measures are recommended.
AB - Abandoned mining sites are largely responsible for the release of heavy metals into water systems. This study assessed heavy metals in the water collected from the mine sumps and bore-wells of an abandoned copper mine in Lasail, northern Oman. Other physiochemical parameters of the water were also evaluated. The waters were extremely acidic with very high electrical conductivity. Aluminium (Al), boron (B), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), mercury (Hg), manganese (Mn) and zinc (Zn) were in very high concentrations, well above the limits recommended by Oman and World Health Organisation (WHO) standards. The principal component analysis (PCA) explained 93% of the variability. The impact of mining on the water quality of Lasail area is presented and remediation measures are recommended.
KW - Abandoned copper mine
KW - Heavy metals
KW - Multivariate data analysis
KW - Omans
KW - Water pollution
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U2 - 10.29227/IM-2019-01-40
DO - 10.29227/IM-2019-01-40
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074213575
SN - 1640-4920
VL - 2019
SP - 221
EP - 223
JO - Inzynieria Mineralna
JF - Inzynieria Mineralna
IS - 1
ER -