Journal
ACTA GEOCHIMICA
Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages 241-247Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s11631-013-0628-0
Keywords
coal gangue; environment; organic compound; heavy metal
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- Hebei Science Funding [D2006000625]
- Hebei Financial Support Plan for Science and Technology [10276701D]
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Samples around a coal gangue dump of the Gequan Coal Mine were collected in April 2009. GC (gas chromatography) and GC/MS (gas chromatography/mass spectrometry) were employed to analyze the composition of organic matter in the samples. ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) was used to determine the concentrations of heavy metals. The contents of organic extracts are within the range of 140-750 mg/kg. Alk-and aro-ratios are relatively high. Compared to those of the background sample (GQ13), the contents of saturated hydrocarbon compounds in all the samples are relatively high. The contents of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are relatively high with the distance getting closer to the coal gangue dump. These indicate that organic matter in the samples is from coal particles of the coal gangue dump. The distributions of heavy metals are very similar: the contents decrease with distance from the dump, which indicates that the harmful heavy metals from the coal gangue dump have polluted as thick as at least 500 m.
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