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Ecological assessment of coal mine and metal mine drainage in South Korea using Daphnia magna bioassay

In order to assess the ecological effect of acid mine drainage, metal mine (Dalsung) and coal mine (Samtan) drainage in South Korea were collected. The each mine drainage then investigated by whole effluent toxicity test (WET) and toxicity identification evaluation (TIE). WET results demonstrated th...

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Autores principales: Lee, Sang-Ho, Kim, Injeong, Kim, Kyoung-Woong, Lee, Byung-Tae
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26405638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-015-1311-1
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description In order to assess the ecological effect of acid mine drainage, metal mine (Dalsung) and coal mine (Samtan) drainage in South Korea were collected. The each mine drainage then investigated by whole effluent toxicity test (WET) and toxicity identification evaluation (TIE). WET results demonstrated that DS leachate and ST mine water is more toxic than other mine drainage due to the presence of cationic metals and acidic pH. TIE results revealed that the acidic pH and copper (Cu) could be the main toxicants in both mine drainage. The strong acidic pH (pH < 3.5) enhanced the metal toxicity by increase of metal activity and bioavailability. The toxicity of most mine drainage revealed that the positive correlation between metal concentration and toxicity unit (TU). The regression data between TU and sum of cumulative criterion unit (CCU) demonstrated the reasonable statistical significance (R = 0.89; p < 0.01), however the excessive iron concentration in mine drainage could be an inhibition factor to estimate the toxicity by the effect of amorphous iron precipitate.
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spelling pubmed-45740312015-09-24 Ecological assessment of coal mine and metal mine drainage in South Korea using Daphnia magna bioassay Lee, Sang-Ho Kim, Injeong Kim, Kyoung-Woong Lee, Byung-Tae Springerplus Research In order to assess the ecological effect of acid mine drainage, metal mine (Dalsung) and coal mine (Samtan) drainage in South Korea were collected. The each mine drainage then investigated by whole effluent toxicity test (WET) and toxicity identification evaluation (TIE). WET results demonstrated that DS leachate and ST mine water is more toxic than other mine drainage due to the presence of cationic metals and acidic pH. TIE results revealed that the acidic pH and copper (Cu) could be the main toxicants in both mine drainage. The strong acidic pH (pH < 3.5) enhanced the metal toxicity by increase of metal activity and bioavailability. The toxicity of most mine drainage revealed that the positive correlation between metal concentration and toxicity unit (TU). The regression data between TU and sum of cumulative criterion unit (CCU) demonstrated the reasonable statistical significance (R = 0.89; p < 0.01), however the excessive iron concentration in mine drainage could be an inhibition factor to estimate the toxicity by the effect of amorphous iron precipitate. Springer International Publishing 2015-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4574031/ /pubmed/26405638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-015-1311-1 Text en © Lee et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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title Ecological assessment of coal mine and metal mine drainage in South Korea using Daphnia magna bioassay
title_full Ecological assessment of coal mine and metal mine drainage in South Korea using Daphnia magna bioassay
title_fullStr Ecological assessment of coal mine and metal mine drainage in South Korea using Daphnia magna bioassay
title_full_unstemmed Ecological assessment of coal mine and metal mine drainage in South Korea using Daphnia magna bioassay
title_short Ecological assessment of coal mine and metal mine drainage in South Korea using Daphnia magna bioassay
title_sort ecological assessment of coal mine and metal mine drainage in south korea using daphnia magna bioassay
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26405638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-015-1311-1
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