Supplement to the journal
"Trace Elements in Medicine" (Moscow)
2021: 58-60

CONTENT OF METALS IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENTS OF THE MINING REGION

I.N. Semenova, Yu.S. Rafikova, R.F. Khasanova, G.R. Ilbulova, M.B. Suyundukova, Ya.T. Suyundukov

Sibay Branch of the State Autonomous Scientific Institution "Institute for Strategic Studies of the Republic of Bashkortostan", Sibay, Russia

DOI: 10.19112/2413-6174-2021-S1-29 

ABSTRACT. The aim of the study was to study the content of Cu, Zn, Pb and Cd in the environmental components of the mining region of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The objects of research were pasture and arable soils, grain of spring wheat, hair of children under the age of 14 years. The content of Cu, Zn, Pb and Cd in the soils and the grain was determined by atomic absorption, in the hair – by mass spectrometry with inductively coupled argon plasma (ICP-MS) at Center for Biotic Medicine (Moscow). The environmental impact of mining operations is manifested in increased levels of Cu, Zn and Cd in the grazing soils under their influence, as well as higher levels of Cu in the hair of children and Pb and Cd in wheat grain.

KEYWORDS: soil, wheat, hair, heavy metals, mining enterprises.