Arsenic and fluorine in the Etnean volcanics from Biancavilla, Sicily, Italy: environmental implications

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• 作者：S. Mazziotti-Tagliani (1) simona.mazziotti@uniroma1.it
  M. Angelone (2)
  G. Armiento (2)
  R. Pacifico (2)
  C. Cremisini (2)
  A. Gianfagna (1)
• 关键词：Arsenic – ; Fluorine – ; Apatite ; (CaF) – ; Environmental mineralogy and geochemistry – ; Mount Etna
• 刊名：Environmental Earth Sciences
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：May 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：66
• 期：2
• 页码：561-572
• 全文大小：679.8 KB
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• 作者单位：1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Universit脿 di Roma, P.le A. Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy2. ENEA, National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Via Anguillarese, 301, 00123 Rome, Italy
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：None Assigned
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1866-6299

文摘

Mineralogical and geochemical studies were undertaken in the volcanic area of Biancavilla (Catania, Italy) with the aim of explaining the nature of the high As and F contents of the area’s rocks. As and F contents in soils and groundwater were also investigated. The metasomatised benmoreite lavas show fluorine and arsenic concentrations up to about 3,000 and 1,000 mg/kg, respectively. Mineralogical analyses show that fluorine occurs mostly in fluoro-edenite and apatite-(CaF) crystals, both abundantly present in the altered rocks, while As is exclusively attributed to the apatite-(CaF) crystals. Specifically, arsenic was observed only at the borders of these apatite crystals. Leaching tests and sequential extraction procedures were carried out to evaluate the potential remobilisation of As and F by the mineral phases and the eventual risks induced by their spreading. The results of the leaching tests suggest that As is almost totally associated with the ‘easily reducible’ fraction and that it is released by the preferential dissolution of the arsenic enriched rims of apatite-(CaF) crystals. In soils, As concentration is relatively low (about 15 mg/kg, on average), while F ranges from 236 to 683 mg/kg. The underground waters supplying the town of Biancavilla show As and F contents lower than the allowed limits for drinking water, (As:10 μg/L, F:1–1.5 mg/L). The limited distribution of these rocks and the relatively limited mobilisation by the minerals both contribute to maintain low As and F values, in soils and groundwaters, despite the high values in metasomatised lava samples.