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Industrial Metals, Critical Minerals and Transfer Processes: Effects on the Built Environment

  • 1st Edition - March 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Robert Ayuso, Benedetto De Vivo, Nora K. Foley, Philippe Négrel, Pei Ni, Annika Parviainen
  • Language: English

Industrial Toxic Metals, Critical Minerals and Transfer Processes Affecting Human Health in the Built Environment provides a comprehensive examination of the environmental and he… Read more

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Description

Industrial Toxic Metals, Critical Minerals and Transfer Processes Affecting Human Health in the Built Environment provides a comprehensive examination of the environmental and health impacts of toxic metals and critical minerals within various industrial and urban contexts. The book explores contamination originating from smelter sites, detailing the geochemical behavior and isotope compositions of soils near lead battery recycling and copper smelters across multiple global locations. It highlights the pathways through which fine and ultrafine particles, as well as metals, enter the atmosphere and affect human health, supported by case studies from regions including California, Spain, China, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The text also investigates legacy pollution issues associated with abandoned industrial sites, mineral waste, and agricultural soils, emphasizing the persistence and bioaccessibility of contaminants such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and rare earth elements. Detailed geochemical speciation studies and soil contamination assessments underscore the challenges of remediation and the need for sustainable management practices. Health disparities and regulatory considerations are addressed through analyses of pollution impacts on vulnerable communities and discussions on cooperative management strategies.

The book underscores the critical intersection of geochemistry, environmental science, and public health, offering insights into how industrial activities influence human well-being and ecosystem integrity. This work serves as an essential resource for researchers and environmental professionals seeking to understand and mitigate the complex risks posed by toxic metals and critical minerals in the built environment, promoting healthier and more sustainable communities.

Key features

  • Examines the effects and impacts of metal redistribution processes on the environment (geological, hydrological, soil, and air quality)
  • Describes new environmental geochemistry research methods
  • Highlights human health disparities related to metal transfer and environmental overburden

Readership

Researchers and practitioners in environmental geochemistry, geology, soil remediation, water quality monitoring, air quality monitoring, and environmental management

Table of contents

PART 1 Smelter Site Investigation, Remediation, Case Studies: Soils, Water, Air

1. Preliminary Pb isotope compositions of soils near two lead battery recycling smelters, California, USA

2. Geochemistry and Pb isotopic variations of soils adjacent to a battery recycling smelter, South Carolina, USA

3. Fine and ultrafine particle inputs to the atmosphere from a Cu smelter and their potential human health effects, Spain

4. Morphology, mineralogy, and Pb isotopic compositions of filter samples affected by battery recycling smelters, California, USA

5. Health outcomes affecting people near Pb recycling smelters, California, USA

6. Metal bioaccessibility of urban soils and effects on humans near primary lead smelters and mine sites, Huelva, Spain

7. Human health risks associated with phosphogypsum stacks in an urban environment, Spain

8. Lead isotopes in the urban environment – a case study from Karlstad town, Sweden

9. Study on the occurrence, migration, and transformation of environmentally sensitive elements in typical metal mining area, eastern China

10. Environmental and human health impacts of non-ferrous metal smelting in Sub-Saharan Africa

11. The legacy of smelter pollution in Torreon City, Mexico: Environmental and health implications

12. Artisanal gold mining, mercury, speciation, human health issues

13. Chinese smelters

14. Lead poisoning, lead smelter emissions Port Pirie, Australia

15. How the subduction processes deform and modify the continental lithosphere: Knowledge to understand where mineralizations/ore deposits could be located

PART 2 Brownfields, Abandoned Industrial Sites, Mineral Waste, Agricultural Legacy

16. Review of trace elements at a continental scale: agricultural and grazing soils

17. Occurrence and distribution of silver, gold, palladium and platinum resulting from the high-resolution soil geochemical survey in Campania Region (Italy)

18. Cd, Hg, Pb anthropogenic contamination: legacy problems and current trends

19. Geochemical Speciation of Metal Contaminants in Soil (and Water): Assessing Risks and the Need for Sustainable Remediation

20. Metal contamination of soils from the Campanian region, Italy

21. Industrial Emissions and Environmental Consequences: The Case of Mineral Waste from Thermal Processes in Poland

22. Soils and air of the Campania region, Italy: A review on detailed monitoring results of metals and POP

23. The Bagnoli-Napoli (Italy) brownfield industrial site: an endless remediation plan

24. The geochemical distribution characteristics of Industrial toxic metals, Papua New Guinea

25. Soil heavy metal pollution characteristics and health risk assessment of domestic garbage landfill in Yangtze River Delta Region of eastern China

26. Study on soil contamination characteristics and environmental risks of some key chemical plants, eastern China

27. Heavy Metal Emissions from Coal-fired Power Plants and Heavy Metal Pollution Characteristics and Health Risks in Surrounding Soils, eastern China

28. Geochemical assessment of potentially toxic elements in Copacabana bay, Titicaca Lake, Bolivia

29. A review of REE concentrations in agricultural soil in Sweden and Italy

PART 3 Health Disparities, Economics and Regulatory Issues

30. Legacy of pollution near the Pb acid-battery recycling smelter, Los Angeles, CA, USA

31. Soil environmental problems and cooperative management countermeasures in Yangtze River Delta Region of eastern China

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Robert Ayuso

Robert A. Ayuso is a senior research geologist leading the Radiogenic Isotope Labs at the U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. Dr. Ayuso has led and contributed to multiple projects throughout the United States (and internationally) focused on geochronology, geochemistry, and applications of radiogenic isotope tracers. His main interests are ore genesis of metal deposits and examination of chemical processes controlling metal transport in the surface environment that affect secondary minerals, soils, water, dust, and biological systems. His recent research focuses on granite-related ore deposits associated with critical mineral commodities, and metal transfer paths from ore to industrial applications and waste. He is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geology, served as Associate Editor for Economic Geology, Associate Editor, co-Chief Editor and Chief Editor of the Journal of Geochemical Exploration. He received a B.Sc. degree from the University of New Orleans, M.Sc. from Stony Brook University, and a PhD from Virginia Tech.
Affiliations and expertise
US Geological Survey, USA

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Benedetto De Vivo

Benedetto De Vivo, graduated at Univ. Napoli Federico II, Italy, in Geological Sciences in 1971. He is currently Full Prof of Environmental Geochemistry at Univ. Online Pegaso, Napoli; and Adjunct Prof. at: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; Nanjing University and Hubei Polit. Univ, Huanghshi, China; and Member of Excalibur Group, New Market, MD, USA. From 1971 to 1976, worked for private companies operating in Italy and abroad; Researcher at CNR, Rome (1976-1987); Associate Prof (1987-2000) and Full Prof (2000-2017) in Applied Geochemistry at Univ. of Napoli Federico II. He was Chief Editor of: J. Geoch. Explor. (Elsevier) from 2007 to 2016, and Geochemistry-Exploration, Environment, Analysis (Geol. Soc. London) from 2017 to 2018. He has published 300 papers; 30 educational publications; 33 Monographs; and has edited 36 special volumes of peer review journals; 7 textbooks in geochemical prospecting and environmental geochemistry. Recipient of the 2019 Gold Medal of the Association of Applied Geochemists.
Affiliations and expertise
Univ Telematica Pegaso, Napoli, Italy; and Adjunct Prof. at: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; Nanjiing University, Nanjiing, P.R. China; Hubei Polytechnic University, Huangshi, P.R. China

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Nora K. Foley

Nora K. Foley is a Senior Research Geologist with the Geology, Energy, and Minerals Science Center (GEM-SC), U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. Dr. Foley has served as project lead and as principal investigator for ore deposit research studies in economic geology, mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, fluid chemistry, mineral reaction rates, and related environmental impact studies at the USGS. Her current research includes ore genesis studies of rare metal deposits containing critical mineral commodities, including beryllium, rare earth elements, gallium, lithium, the base and precious metals, and their use in society. She also works on genesis of secondary minerals in soils and air filter samples. She is currently a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geology (SEG) and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Geochemical Exploration and past Associate Editor of Economic Geology, and Geology. She holds a B.Sc. degree from The University of Michigan, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Tech in Geological Sciences.

Affiliations and expertise
U.S. Geological Survey, USA

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Philippe Négrel

Dr Philippe Négrel is senior scientist at BRGM, specialist in isotope geochemistry for 30 years. He has contributed to the fields of surface water – groundwater interactions; water-rock interaction; continental erosion; tracing actual and paleo circulation. He was deputy director of BRGM Divisions (2010-2022), involved in many EU projects and national research projects with French public bodies. Currently involved in major International bodies and international programs, as member or chair of international working groups dedicated to geochemistry (President of the International Association of GeoChemistry IAGC 2017-2018, Chair of the EuroGeoSurveys Geochemistry Expert Group), to sediments transfer (Steering Board member of the European sediment network SedNet) and to soil health (EuroGeoSurveys delegate in the Enlarged soil expert group for the implementation of the European Soil Strategy to 2030 to prepare the European Law on Soil). was an associate editor of Applied Geochemistry (2012-2019) and The Open Geology Journal (2008-2013), current associate editor of Journal of Hydrology since 2009 and Journal of River Basin Management since 2003.

Affiliations and expertise
BRGM (French Geological Survey), France

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Pei Ni

Pei Ni received a Ph.D. from Nanjing University and became Full professor in NJU in 2004. He serves as deputy dean of School of Earth Science and Engineering, NJU, and vice director of Stake Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposit Research and Head of Institute of Geofluid, NJU. He is the chair of working group of inclusion in mineral of IMA, Secretary, Commission on ore-forming fluids in inclusions(COFFI) of IAGOD, Chair of working group of inclusion in mineral of CSMPG, vice chairman of committee of mineral resource of CMA, Vice chairman of commission on mineral deposit of GSC. Serves as associate editor of Journal of Geochemical Exploration, Ore Geology Reviews and Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. Editorial board member of Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis. The main research interests are metallogenesis, fluid inclusions, deposit geochemistry and exploration geochemistry; published 225 papers including Geology, Sci Adv., GCA, JGR, GSA bulletin, EG, AM, JP, PR, MD, OGR, JGE, Lithos, JASE, GR, GEEA etc.

Affiliations and expertise
Nanjing University

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Annika Parviainen

Dr. Annika Parviainen received a MSc. in Geology and Mineralogy (University of Helsinki, Finland; 2005), PhD in Geoenvironmental Engineering (Aalto University School of Technology, Finland; 2012), and a PhD in Geology and Environmental Management of Raw Materials (University of Huelva, Spain; 2013). Her research focuses on the environmental impacts of mining and industrial wastes (phosphogypsum), especially on the mobility of metals to the surrounding soils, waters, and air. Her research is mainly focused on environmental geochemistry and mineralogy, and she has expanded her research to encompass the interdisciplinary field of Medical Geology by assessing the impact of mining pollution on humans (gallstones, blood, and urine) and the potential human exposure risk using lichens as bioindicators of atmospheric pollution and urban soils. Dr. Parviainen is an Associate Editor in the Journal of Geochemical Exploration (2015-present). She was an Associate Editor (2017-2019) and an editorial board member (2019-2024) in Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis.
Affiliations and expertise
Spanish National Research Council, Spain