Arsenic enrichment in lakes near the smelters at Sudbury, Ontario

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Aug 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983gecoa..47.1523n&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 47, Issue 8, pp.1523-1526

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Roughly 200 tonnes of arsenic are produced annually with the base metal ores at Sudbury about 125 tonnes of which are released to the ambient environment via the atmosphere. The dispersion of this highly toxic element in lakes around the smelters is described. The total As concentrations in unfiltered lake waters vary from 0.2 to 0.6 ug 1 -1 . The suspended particulates in the water column (with As contents of 2-6 ug g -1 ) play a major role in the flux of arsenic to the lake sediments. The present-day rates of As accumulation in the sediments are found to be 1.5-6.4 mg m -2 yr -1 ; these rates exceed those of precolonial times by factors of 5-47. The changes in the rates of As flux to the sediments are shown to parallel the history of Cu and Ni production in the district.

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