this paper presents a survey on soil pb concentration around sepahanshahr town located in vicinity of isfahan. due to the lack of regulation and environmental education and awareness, sepahanshahr is now a rapid growing residential area suffering from the considerable consequences of poorly regulated mining activities operating in its vicinity. the aim of this study is to explore the spatial st...

This paper presents a survey on soil Pb concentration around Sepahanshahr town located in vicinity of Isfahan. Due to the lack of regulation and environmental education and awareness, Sepahanshahr is now a rapid growing residential area suffering from the considerable consequences of poorly regulated mining activities operating in its vicinity. The aim of this study is to explore the spatial st...

abstract mine excavation, concentration and transportation of minerals make southern esfahan municipality and suburb of sepahanshahr vulnerable to pollution and endanger their people by heavy metals. nowadays, spectrophotometers and spectral reflectance of soils in different parts of spectrum are applied for estimating soil characteristics and pollutants. this research was conducted to study th...

introduction due to mining, considerable amounts of heavy metal bearing mineralsare scattered in the atmosphere in the form of dust and make the surrounding air, water and soils polluted.runoff water movingfrom the mountainstowardsplains may also transport heavy metals from mines to the soils.one type ofpollutions is contamination withheavy metals.the purpose of the present research has been to...

generally heavy metals exist in all soils, but soil pollution is rising by time due to human activities. soils in the proximity of mines are more pruning to pollution of heavy metals due to mine exploring and excavation. this research was carried out to evaluate the soil pollution of sepahanshahr suburb with pb, zn and cd. during a field work campaign 100 soil samples were selected randomly fro...