Dust emission of chromium from chromite ore processing residue disposal areas in the vicinity of Krasnogorskii Village in Chelyabinsk oblast

Sokol, E. V.
Nigmatulina, E. N.
Nokhrin, D. Yu.

¹S. V. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
²Ural Branch of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Veterinary Sanitation, Hygiene, and Ecology, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sverdlovskii trakt 18, Chelyabinsk, 454106, Russia

Published online: 9 January 2011

Original Russian Text © E.V. Sokol, E.N. Nigmatulina, D.Yu. Nokhrin, 2010, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2010, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 851-863.

Contemporary Problems of Ecology 3(6):p 621-630, December 2010. | DOI: 10.1134/S1995425510060020

Abstract—

The chromium content of soil, dust, and plants near an open-pit mine used to store self-decomposing chromite ore processing residue (COPR) of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Combine was studied by synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence analysis (SRXFR).