Contamination of soils near a tailing pond at the Zlate Hory polymetallic ore deposit
- Univ. of Mining and Metallurgy, Ostrava (Czechoslovakia)
- Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Ostrava (Czechoslovakia). Institute of Industrial Landscape Ecology
The relationship between concentrations of trace elements in soils and their content in plants has became a frequently discussed issue. Attention also focuses on the effects of trace element concentrations on the healthy development of vegetation. The Zlate Hory Mining District (in the northern part of the Jeseniky Mountains, 14 km east of Jesenik) with its polymetallic mineral deposits represents an important geochemical source area. It provides opportunities for the study of trace element distributions in the soil horizons and vegetation of a forest comprising mainly Norway spruce, Picea abies (L.) Karsten. Conditions of geochemical migration vary widely from geochemical background to the anomalous areas affected by a high level of mining activity. Trace element distribution in soil horizons was studied in the flood plain of Prudnik Creek. The study area was delineated using basic square units, 10 x 10 m, alternated regularly with free squares. Soil sampling was performed inside the basic square units simultaneously with geobotanical mapping. The study area was located where soils of the flood plain are influenced by waters discharged from a tailing pond and by the highly contaminated waters of Prudnik Creek. The tailing pond is situated above the study area, on the western slope of the Prudnik valley. The mine and mineral dressing plant is located two kilometers upstream to the south. Flotation technology is used to produce chalcopyrite concentrate from ore of the disseminated type. Stratiform ore bodies formed by chalcopyrite and pyrite, with some admixtures of galena and sphalerite, are deposited in metamorphosed Devonian series with quartzite and phyllites predominant.
- OSTI ID:
- 106368
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9210116-; ISBN 1-885189-02-8; TRN: IM9542%%456
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Conference on coal, energy and environment, Ostrava (Czechoslovakia), 12-16 Oct 1992; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Coal, energy and environment: Proceedings; Mead, J.S.; Hawse, M.L. [eds.]; PB: 644 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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