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

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 fi...

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Main Authors: Erasto Focus, Mwemezi J. Rwiza, Najat K. Mohammed, Firmi P. Banzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9976048