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ArticleJournal of environmental and public health2021

Health Risk Assessment of Trace Elements in Soil for People Living and Working in a Mining Area.

Erasto Focus, Mwemezi J Rwiza, Najat K Mohammed, Firmi P Banzi

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Article in Journal of environmental and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Erasto FocusThe Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), P.O. Box 447, Arusha, Tanzania.
Mwemezi J RwizaThe Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), P.O. Box 447, Arusha, Tanzania.ORCID 0000-0001-5526-444X
Najat K MohammedDar Es Salaam Institution of Technology (DIT), P.O. Box 2525, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
Firmi P BanziTanzania Atomic Energy Commission (TAEC), P.O. Box 743, Arusha, Tanzania.ORCID 0000-0003-3831-0752

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study used soils collected from a small-scale gold mine area to determine the health risks due to trace elements to the at-risk population in the study area. The work involved 74 soil samples from four sampling categories: 29 samples were from the mining pits (MD), 18 samples from the first washing area (WA), 17 samples from the second washing area (WB), and 10 samples from the control area (C). All samples were analyzed for Cr, Cu, As, Pb, Cd, Co, Ni, Zn, and Hg using the Energy Dispersive X-Ray Florescence (ED-XRF) method. Trace element levels were found to vary across the four sampling categories. The concentrations of trace elements recorded from different sampling categories varied in an increasing order of MD > WA > WB > C. Mercury was detected in the highest levels (

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Environmental ExposureMiningSoil PollutantsTrace ElementsAdultChildHumansResidence CharacteristicsRisk AssessmentWorkSoil PollutantsTrace Elements

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PMID34306104
PMCPMC8270695

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