Environmental Effects Caused by Abandoned Metal Mines in the Kyungpook Province

경북지역 폐금속광산이 환경에 미치는 영향

  • Lee, Jae Yeong (Department of geology, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kim, Jong Gun (Department of geology, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Lee, In Ho (Department of geology, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Lee, Jin Kook (Environmental Science Institute, Kyungpook National University)
  • 이재영 (경북대학교 지질학과) ;
  • 김종근 (경북대학교 지질학과) ;
  • 이인호 (경북대학교 지질학과) ;
  • 이진국 (경북대학교 환경과학연구소)
  • Received : 1993.06.19
  • Published : 1993.08.31

Abstract

The heavy metal contents are more abundant in stream waters, paddy soils and rice plants in the vicinity of abandoned mines compared to the surrounding areas in the Kyungpook province. However, these contents tend to decrease with distance from mines, and show some variation under different geological and geochemical environments. The Sin-stream waters have high contents of Cu=4.9 ppm, Pb=0.1 ppm, Zn=3.5 ppm and other heavy metals (Ni, Co, Cd) at Dalsung abandoned mine and low contents of Cu=0.4 ppm, Pb=0.1 ppm, Zn=0.1 ppm and other metals= 0.002 ppm in the surrounding area. The high contents decrease in the downstream in the area of calcareous sedimentary rocks. The paddy soils have high contents of approximately Cu=51 ppm, Pb=83 ppm, Zn=211 ppm, and Cd=11.3 ppm in the vicinity of Gunwi abandoned mine but low contents of Cu=4.5 ppm, Pb=2.9 ppm, Zn=60 ppm and Cd=0.4 ppm in the surrounding area. The Dadeog abandoned mine also shows similar trends to Gunwi mine. The contents of heavy metals of rice plants are high in the roots but trends to decrease through stem+leaf and become low in brown rices.

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