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Pollution Load Index of Heavy Metals Resulting from Mining Activities in Plateau State, Nigeria |
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PP: 75- 81 |
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doi:10.18576/jrna/070310
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Author(s) |
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J. Waida,
U. Rilwan,
Ismail W.Olanyi,
I. M. Yusuff,
B. I. Sunday,
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Abstract |
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| Accumulation of heavy metals in agricultural soils, plant and water are aggressed by industrial and other human activities such as mining. Plants received heavy metals from soils through ionic exchange, redox reactions, precipitation-dissolution, and so on. The work intends to evaluate the extent to which the water, soil and plants in parts of Plateau State are polluted through a factor known as pollution load index. The results revealed that, the Contamination Factor for heavy metals in Bassa, Jos South, Barkin Ladi, Mangu and Jos East have their values in trend with Cr (0.04) > As (0.013) > Pb (0.006) > Ni (0.005) > Cd (0.003) for water, Cr (75.2) > Pb (74.8) > Ni (43.6) > As (24.4) > Cd (3.58) for soil and Ni (5.4) > Pb (1.72) > Cr (0.71) > Cd (0.03) > As (0.028) for plant. It can therefore be concluded that the soil, water and plants in the study area are seriously polluted and call for serious concern and regulatory control. |
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