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ArticleEnvironmental geochemistry and health2020

Environmental and health risk assessment of agricultural areas adjacent to uranium ore fields in Brazil.

Juliana A Galhardi, Jaime W V de Mello, Kevin J Wilkinson

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Article in Environmental geochemistry and health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 authors.

Juliana A GalhardiBiophysical Environmental Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada. julianagalhardi@yahoo.com.br.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4114-7928
Jaime W V de MelloSoil Chemistry and Environmental Geochemistry Group, Department of Soil, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil.
Kevin J WilkinsonBiophysical Environmental Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Funding

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 000Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Nature et Technologies 000Mitacs 000Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 000Vale Canada Limited 000
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To investigate the risks posed by trace and rare earth elements (REEs) in two tropical uranium ore fields, metal concentrations from 50 vegetable samples (corn and soybean) and their corresponding agricultural soils were evaluated in a U mining area and a U-rich coal mining area in Brazil. Samples from both areas had metal concentrations (REE: La to Lu, and trace elements: As, Pb, Cd, Ni, Cu, Cr, Mn, Zn, Ba, U, Sr) that were higher than the guidelines proposed by the Brazilian environmental agency. Soils from the U mining area (Poços de Caldas) generally had higher contents of trace elements than the coal mining area (Figueira), with the exception of Ni and Cr, indicating a higher risk of pollution, which was confirmed by a pollution load index that was greater than unity. For both sites, concentrations of uranium in the soil and plants, its hazard quotients and the soil contamination factor were higher in agricultural fields closer to the mines, indicating that contamination and the consequent risks to human health were distance dependent. REE concentrations averaged 52.8 mg kg

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AgricultureBrazilCoal MiningCrops, AgriculturalDietary ExposureEnvironmental MonitoringHumansMetals, Rare EarthMiningNo-Observed-Adverse-Effect LevelRisk AssessmentSoilSoil PollutantsTrace ElementsUraniumZea maysMetals, Rare EarthSoilSoil PollutantsTrace ElementsUraniumCoal mineHazard quotientRare earth elementsTropical soilUranium

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PMID32653967

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