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Experimental immobilization of Zn, Pb and Cd by additives to highly contaminated soils

Hałabuza Justyna, Rzepa Grzegorz, Manecki Maciej, Białek Justyna

Mineralogia

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2022

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Vol. 53, iss. 1

67--81

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The immobilization effect of soil amendments on leaching and bioavailability of Pb, Zn and Cd in highly contaminated soils under industrial impact was studied by collecting the soils in the surroundings of Zn-Pb Smelter “Miasteczko Śląskie” in southern Poland as an example. Various amounts of four additives (phosphate fertilizer, limestone powder, bentonite rock and bog iron ore) were tested in laboratory experiments to compare the effectiveness of three dominant mechanisms of immobilization: precipitation of phosphates, pH increase, and sorption. The contents of metals before immobilization were determined by extraction in CaCl2, EDTA and aqua regia. Cadmium and zinc are mainly represented by soluble, bioavailable forms extractable in CaCl2, while lead by potentially bioavailable speciations extractable by EDTA. Most effective in the immobilization of these metals were the amendments increasing soil pH: limestone powder and phosphate fertilizer. Bog iron ore and bentonite were less effective because the soil pH was too low for efficient cation adsorption.

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Early Devonian sinistral shearing recorded by retrograde monazite-(Ce) in Oscar II Land, Svalbard

Ziemniak Grzegorz, Manecki Maciej, Jeanneret Pauline, Walczak Katarzyna, Kośmińska Karolina

Mineralogia

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2022

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Vol. 53, iss. 1

82--108

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The Southwestern Basement Province of Svalbard extends northward from Sørkapp Land in the south to Oscar II Land. In the north, the Müllerneset Formation characterized by polymetamorphosed Proterozoic sedimentary rocks crops out. In this study we used an integrated tectonic and petrochronological approach to gain an insight into the structural and metamorphic evolution of the unit and surrounding basement. The Müllerneset Formation consists of two separate tectonic blocks. NNW-SSE trending retrograde foliation is associated with mineral and stretching lineation and kinematic indicators consistent with left-lateral to oblique sinistral shearing in the western block. The eastern block is characterized by the opposite sense of shear that was overturned during the Eurekan event as evidenced by unconformably overlaying Carboniferous sedimentary rocks. Conventional geothermobarometry yields the prograde peak pressure metamorphic conditions of 6.6 - 7.1 kbar at 480 - 520°C followed by peak temperature at 5.1 - 5.9 kbar and 530 - 560°C. Subsequent retrograde greenschist facies overprint is related to left-lateral NNW-SSE trending shearing. Tiny monazite occurs within foliation or overgrows allanite-(Ce), thus is interpreted as growth along a retrograde path. Th-U-total Pb dating of monazite-(Ce) provided an early Caledonian age (ca. 450 Ma) and younger population of ca. 410 ± 8 Ma. This age is consistent with previously reported 40Ar/39Ar cooling ages (410 ± 2 Ma) of muscovite supporting a retrograde growth of monazite. Petrochronological evidence combined with structural observations suggests that the Müllerneset Formation has been tectonically exhumed in the Early Devonian due to the NNW-SSE trending left-lateral shearing. Coeval folding and thrusting in the remaining basement of Oscar II Land to the east indicate a transpressional regime of the deformation in the Early Devonian. Similarly oriented contemporaneous tectonic zones within the Southwestern Basement Province of Svalbard may account for the same set of shear zones dispersing the Ordovician subduction complexes along western Spitsbergen.

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Time constraints on experimental studies of lead apatites

Topolska Justyna, Bajda Tomasz, Puzio Bartosz, Manecki Maciej, Kozub-Budzyń Gabriela

Geological Quarterly

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2019

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Vol. 63, No. 4

721--728

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The paper presents the results of experimental studies on the synthesis and thermodynamic stability of selected Pb-apatites in terms of criteria determining termination of the experiments. Based on the case study, we indicate difficulties in analysing the obtained experimental data. Time-resolved sampling of precipitate formed during a dropwise synthesis of pyromorphite was performed and the results were compared to the literature data. It has been concluded that the Ostwald ripening time for synthesized solids depends primarily on the chemical composition of the intended Pb-apatite phase. We presented that heterogeneity of precipitate affects its dissolution in terms of repeatability of the results and equilibrating time. A unique 9-year-long experiment on vanadinite stability at a pH range from 2.0-6.0 revealed that among all tested dissolution conditions only the reactions at the pH = 3.5 can perform as the basis for some thermodynamic calculations. It has been concluded that the rate of phase transitions in the Pb-apatites group can be misleading in terms of determining the equilibrium of the system, and the experimental setup designed particularly to provide reliable controls in this aspect should be involved. Means in this respect have been proposed.

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Weathering in a regolith on the Werenskioldbreen Glacier forefield (SW Spitsbergen). 2. Speciation of Fe, Mn, Pb, Cu and Zn in the chronosequence

Rzepa Grzegorz, Manecki Maciej, Jakubski Grzegorz, Kwaśniak-Kominek Monika, Czerny Jerzy, Górniak Dorota

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

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2019

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Vol. 89, No. 3

317--341

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The evolution of chemical speciation of Fe, Mn, Pb, Cu, and Zn was investigated in the chronosequence of young sediments, exposed by a currently retreating Arctic glacier on Spitsbergen. Werenskioldbreen is a 27 km2 subpolar, land-terminated, polythermal glacier in recession, located near the SW coast of West Spitsbergen. Three samples of structureless till were collected at locations exposed for 5, 45 and 70 years. Four grain-size fractions were separated: > 63, 20–63, 2–20, and < 2 µm. Speciation of Fe, Mn, Pb, Cu, and Zn was determined using a 6-step sequential chemical extraction method: 1) 1 M sodium acetate, 2) 1 M hydroxylamine hydrochloride in acetic acid, 3) sodium dithionite in buffer, 4) acid ammonium oxalate, 5) boiling HCl, 6) residuum. The weathering in the proglacial area of the retreating glacier is very fast. The geochemical fates of the metals in question correlate with each other, reflecting a) the geochemical similarities between them, b) the similarities of their primary mineral sources, c) the significant role of incongruent dissolution. The weathering processes dominating the system are redox reactions and incongruent dissolution, followed by precipitation of secondary phases and partial sorption of aqueous species. As a result, the elements released from weathering minerals are only partially transported away from the system. The remaining part transforms by weathering from the coarse-grained fraction (dominated by fragments of primary minerals) into the fine-grained fraction (in the form of secondary, authigenic minerals or as species sorbed onto a mineral skeleton). This is very strongly pronounced within the chronosequence: the content of each of the metals studied correlates identically with the grain size, despite the differences in their chemical character and affinities. The microscope study presented herein indicates that the role of incongruent dissolution previously was underestimated. Also, the formation of coatings of secondary phases on primary mineral surfaces was observed. All these rapid weathering processes affect the mineral speciation of initial soils as well as the composition of mineral suspensions transported away by rivers to the nearby ocean.