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A total of 31 topsoil samples were systematically collected from the Panzhihua mining area including steel smelting, coal mining, urban and rural districts. A normalization procedure was adopted to establish the environmental geochemical baseline models for this area. By using the above baseline models, the regional geochemical baseline values of As, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn were determined. On the basis of the baselines, the enrichment factors were used to analyze the mechanism of trace metal pollution in topsoil from anthropogenic sources, and the results showed that the serious trace metal pollution is caused by human activities in coal mine, iron mine, smelting factory, tailing dam and other industrial districts in the Panzhihua area.
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Supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 49873020) and the Youth Scientific and Technological Foundation of Sichuan Province.
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Yanguo, T., Shijun, N., Xianguo, T. et al. Geochemical baseline and trace metal pollution of soil in Panzhihua mining area. Chin. J. Geochem. 21, 274–281 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02831093
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