Heavy Metal Pollution from Gold Mines: Environmental ...
2016-10-26 · Its concentration in unpolluted soil is usually 1 mg/kg, but in gold mine tailings, concentrations ranging between 6.4 and 11.7 mg/kg have been reported in Tanzania . It occurs in gold bearing orebodies as an isometric trace element in sphalerite and its concentration depends on the concentration of the sphalerite in the ore body.