• Evaluation about Contaminant Migration Near Abandoned Mine in Central Region
  • Lee, Jong-Deuk;Kim, Tae-Dong;Jeon, Gee-Seok;Kim, Hee-Joung;
  • Department Of Enviromental Engineering, Andong University;Department Of Enviromental Engineering, Andong University;Korea Enviroment Corporation, HQ of Water Enviroment Management;Division of Environmental Research Center, Kangwon National University;
  • 중부지역에 위치한 폐광산 주변의 오염물질 이동성 평가
  • 이종득;김태동;전기석;김휘중;
  • 안동대학교 환경공학과;안동대학교 환경공학과;한국환경공단 물환경본부;강원대학교 환경연구소;
Abstract
Several mines including Namil, Solim and Jungbong which are located in the Gyeonggi and Kangwon province have been abandoned and closed since 1980 due to "The promotion policy of mining industry". An enormous amount of mining wastes was disposed without proper treatment, which caused soil pollution in tailing dam and ore-dressing plant areas. However, any quantitative assessment was not performed about soil and water pollution by transporting mining wastes such as acid mine drainage, mine tailing, and rocky waste. In this research, heavy metals in mining wastes were analyzed according to leaching method which used 0.1 N HCl and total solution method which used Aqua-regia to recognize the ecological effect of distance from hot spot. We sampled tailings, rocky wastes and soils around the abandoned mine. Chemical and physical parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity (EC), total organic carbon (TOC), soil texture and heavy metal concentration were analyzed. The range of soil's pH is between 4.3 and 6.4 in the tailing dam and oredressing plant area due to mining activity. Total concentrations of As, Cu, and Pb in soil near ore dressing plant area are 250.9, 249.3 and 117.2 mg/kg respectively, which are higher than any other ones near tailing dam area. Arsenic concentration in tailing dams is 31.0 mg/kg, which is also considered as heavily polluted condition comparing with the remediation required level(RRL) in "Soil environment conservation Act".

Keywords: Abandoned mine;Acid mine drainage;Mine tailing;Rocky waste;Heavy metals;Tailing dam;Ore-dressing plant;

References
  • 1. Kim, Hee Joung, Sun Gu Kim, and Sang Ho Jun, 2009, Assesment Index of Heavy Metals in the abandoned Gold mine area stream sediments, Korean Society of Soil and Ground Water Environment, Annual Meetings, p. 201-207.
  •  
  • 2. 최승진, 김휘중, 전상호, 김선구, 이재영, 우남칠, 2007, 폐금속광산 광미적치장에서의 심도별 중금속 존재형태와 이동성에 관한 연구, 한국폐기물학회지, 24(8), 724-733.
  •  
  • 3. 한국지질자원연구원, 2005, 한국의 금속광산.
  •  
  • 4. 환경부, 2009, 2009년도 폐금속광산 토양오염실태 정밀조사.
  •  
  • 5. Bowen, H.J.M., 1979, Environmental Chemistry of the Elements, Academic Press, New York, p. 333.
  •  
  • 6. Chlopecka, A., Bacon, J.R., Wilson, M.J., and Key, J., 1996, Form of cadmium, lead and zinc in contaminated soils from southwest Poland, J. Environ. Qual, 25, 69-79.
  •  
  • 7. Hur, B.K., Rim, S.K., Kim, Y.H., and Lee, K.Y., 1997, Physico- Chemical properties on the management groups of paddy soils in Korea, Korean J. Soil Sci. Fert., 30, 62-66.
  •  
  • 8. Istvan, P. and Benton, J.J. Jr., 1997, The Handbook of Trace Elements, 2rd, CRC Press, Washington D.C., p. 240.
  •  
  • 9. Jung, G.B., Kim, W.I., Moon, K.H., and Ryu, I.S, 2000, Fractionation and availability of heavy metals in paddy soils near abandoned mining areas, Kor. J. Environ. Agric. 19, 319-323.
  •  
  • 10. Kim, H.J., Choi, S.J., Kim, S.K., Jun, S.H., and Park, J.S., 2007, Assessment of contamination for heavy metals fraction and mobility according to depth in abandoned mine tailings, Proceeding of the 18th Annual conference of the Japan society of wastes management Experts, Japan, 105-107.
  •  
  • 11. Kim, H.J., Jung, H.G. , Kim, Y.B., and Choi, S.I., 2009, Removal ability of soluble arsenic in waste water using pachymeniopsis sp., Korean Society of Soil and Ground Water Environment, Annual Meetings, Korea, pp. 87-95.
  •  
  • 12. Kloke, A., 1979, Content of arsenic, cadmium, fluorine, lead, mercury, nickel in plants grown on contaminated soil, UK-ECE Symp., London, pp. 58-73.
  •  
  • 13. Kovacsa, E., Dubbinb, W.E., and Tamasa, J., 2006, Influence of hydrology on heavy metal speciation and mobility in a Pb-Zn mine tailing. Environmental Pollution, 141, 310-320.
  •  
  • 14. Levins A.A., 1974, Introduction to exploration geochemistry, Applied Publishing Ltd., May Wood, 614.
  •  
  • 15. Bobert, C.k., 1965, Trace elements in six water systems of the Unite Sates, J. A., Water work association, 57(2), 150-156.
  •  
  • 16. Rose, A.W., Hawkes, H.E., and Webb, J.S., 1979, Geochemistry in Mineral Exploration, 3rd, Academic Press, p. 640.
  •  
  • 17. Sengupta, M., 1993, Environmental impacts of mine drainage on streams of United States, Env. Geol. Water Sic., 11, 141-152.
  •  
  • 18. 박용하, 1994, 휴.폐광된 금속광산지역의 오염관리대책, 한국 환경기술개발원, p. 588.
  •  
  • 19. Aswathanarayan, U., 1995, Geoenvironment An introduction. A Balkema, rotterdam, Brookfield in Netherlands, p. 269.
  •  
  • 20. Kabata-Pendias, A. and Pendias, H., 1984, Trace elements in soils and plants, CRC Press, inc., p. 315.
  •  
  • 21. Jung, M.C., 1995, eavy metal contamination of soil, plants, waters and sediments in the vicinity of malliferous mine in Korea, PhD thesis, University of London, p. 455.
  •  
  • 22. Sheorey, P.R., Loui, J.P., Singh, K.B., and Singh, S.K., 1998, Ground subsidence observations and a modified influence function method for complete subsidence prediction. International Jour. of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 37, 801-818.
  •  
  • 23. Alloway, B.J., 1990, Soil processes and the behavior of metals, In "Heavy metals in soils(Alloway, B. J.(ed))" : Blackie and Son, p. 7-28.
  •  
  • 24. USDA Soil Survey Division Staff, 1993, Soil survey manual - soil conservation service, U.S. Department of Agriculture Handbook, 18(3), 448-457.
  •  
  • 25. http://airlab.wkhc.ac.kr
  •  

This Article

  • 2010; 15(6): 29-36

    Published on Dec 31, 2010

  • Received on Aug 11, 2010
  • Accepted on Dec 20, 2010