FINDING OF HIGH LEVEL ARSENIC FOR MONGOLIAN VILLAGERS' HAIR-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

FINDING OF HIGH LEVEL ARSENIC FOR MONGOLIAN VILLAGERS' HAIR

Published:2004-01 Issue:03n04 Volume:14 Page:125-131
ISSN:0129-0835
Container-title:International Journal of PIXE
language:en
Short-container-title:Int. J. PIXE

Author:

MURAO S.¹,TUMENBAYAR B.²,SERA K.³,FUTATSUGAWA S.⁴,WAZA T.⁵

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Higashi 1-1-1 No.7, Tsukuba, Japan 305-8567, Japan

2. BEMM Co., Ltd., P.O. Box 46/468, Ulaanbaatar-46, Mongolia

3. Iwate Medical University Cyclotron Center, Tomegamori, Takizawamura, Iwategun, Japan 020-0173, Japan

4. Nishina Memorial Cyclotron Center, Japan Radioisotope Association, Tomegamori, Takizawamura, Iwategun, Japan 020-0173, Japan

5. Open GIS, Kinokuniya Building, 1-19-14 Azumabashi, Sumidaku, Japan 130-0001, Japan

Abstract

In recent years, the number of artisanal gold miners in Mongolia is drastically increasing. They use mercury to extract gold from ore and release it to the environment and this fact has been an issue of concern in the nation. In order to monitor the degree of exposure to mercury, artisanal miners' hairs from a typical mining site, Boroo, were analyzed by PIXE at Nishina Memorial Cyclotron Center, Japan. The result indicated that mercury content in the hairs is very low in spite of the miners' practice to work in mercury fume for smelting. However the result showed high level of arsenic, up to 3.2 ppm, although miners' do not use arsenic in the smelting process.

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

Link

https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S0129083504000185

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