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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Pollut. 2007 Oct 25;153(2):362–368. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.08.024

Table 2.

Concentration of low level elements (LLE) in the tailings (top row in each column) and soil cover (bottom row in each column) in mg kg−1.

LLE Location A Location B Location C Location D Location E Average
P 184.15 182.39 180.66 179.48 179.39 181.21 ± 1.1
170.65 165.87 166.74 168.92 165.76 167.59 ± 1.2
Mn 158.32 159.26 160.08 149.89 159.36 157.38 ± 2.2
151.23 154.68 151.78 152.47 151.11 152.25 ± 0.8
Mo 91.56 90.09 87.29 87.12 89.41 89.09 ± 1.1
107.31 108.37 110.21 111.37 125.31 112.51 ± 3.7
Cr 89.02 86.36 84.52 85.25 81.87 84.51 ± 1.1
80.26 80.31 81.12 77.9 74.59 78.84 ± 1.3
Vn 58.23 57.89 58.21 56.94 57.01 57.66 ± 0.3
50.12 49.99 51.26 48.56 50.21 50.03 ± 0.5
Zn 55.23 51.02 52.03 49.96 50.12 51.67 ± 1.1
40.12 40.23 41.26 39.94 39.12 40.13 ± 0.4
As 50.21 51.26 49.63 48.21 48.69 49.60 ± 0.6
41.25 40.23 40.36 39.9 38.21 39.99 ± 0.5
Ni 41.12 40.12 39.23 38.95 38.99 39.68 ± 0.5
29.79 30.12 31.02 30.88 31.12 30.59 ± 0.3
Co 34.25 35.69 36.02 35.98 36.01 35.59 ± 0.4
29.12 28.78 28.97 27.03 30.12 28.80 ± 0.6