Mercury speciation and mercury isotope fractionation during ore roasting process and their implication to source identification of downstream sediment in the Wanshan mercury mining area, SW China

	Mercury speciation and mercury isotope fractionation during ore roasting process and their implication to source identification of downstream sediment in the Wanshan mercury mining area, SW China
	Yin, RS; Feng, XB; Wang, JX; Li, P; Liu, JL; Zhang, Y; Chen, JB; Zheng, LR; Hu, TD; 郑黎荣;胡天斗
刊名	CHEMICAL GEOLOGY
	2013
卷号	336 期号:SI 页码:72-79
关键词	Mercury isotope EXAFS Speciation Calcines
英文摘要	The environment of Guizhou province of SW China is in part significantly impacted by mercury (Hg) mining activities. The exploitation and processing of Hg-bearing ore in the past have led to multiple sources of Hg contamination, including unprocessed ores and Hg waste calcines and liquid elemental Hg, making source control strategies difficult and expensive to implement. In this study, initially extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy was used to determine the Hg species and to estimate the relative proportions of these species present in Hg-bearing wastes from the Wanshan Hg mine (WSMM) of the eastern Guizhou province. The results showed that cinnabar is the dominant Hg species in the unroasted ore samples, while the most prevalent Hg compounds in mine waste calcine is in the following order: meta-cinnabar, cinnabar and mercuric chloride. Our study demonstrated that mass dependent fractionation of Hg isotopes may occur during transformation of cinnabar to by-products (such as meta-cinnabar and mercuric chloride) by the roasting process. Hg stable isotope analysis of unroasted Hg ores and Hg waste calcines showed that Hg waste calcines (0.08 +/- 0.20 parts per thousand, 26, n=11) were enriched by similar to 0.80 parts per thousand in delta Hg-202 values compared to the unroasted Hg ores (-0.74 +/- 0.11 parts per thousand, 26, n=14). Finally, using a combined triple mixing model, the source attribution of the downstream sediment in WSMM was estimated. Our study suggested that the Hg isotope could be a useful tool to trace and quantify the source of Hg in the environment. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
学科主题	Geochemistry & Geophysics
收录类别	SCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000315005800008
公开日期	2016-05-03
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ihep.ac.cn/handle/311005/223820]
专题	中国科学院高能物理研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yin, RS,Feng, XB,Wang, JX,et al. Mercury speciation and mercury isotope fractionation during ore roasting process and their implication to source identification of downstream sediment in the Wanshan mercury mining area, SW China[J]. CHEMICAL GEOLOGY,2013,336(SI):72-79.
APA	Yin, RS.,Feng, XB.,Wang, JX.,Li, P.,Liu, JL.,...&郑黎荣；胡天斗.(2013).Mercury speciation and mercury isotope fractionation during ore roasting process and their implication to source identification of downstream sediment in the Wanshan mercury mining area, SW China.CHEMICAL GEOLOGY,336(SI),72-79.
MLA	Yin, RS,et al."Mercury speciation and mercury isotope fractionation during ore roasting process and their implication to source identification of downstream sediment in the Wanshan mercury mining area, SW China".CHEMICAL GEOLOGY 336.SI(2013):72-79.