Characteristics and Source Analysis of Soil Heavy Metal Pollution in a Mining Area

It is of great significance to study the degree and source of soil heavy metal pollution in geological high background value area for remediation of local contaminated soil. The 0 - 20 cm topsoil was taken around the mining area, and the contents of Pb, Zn, Ni, Cd, Hg, Cu and As in the soil were measured. Single-factor pollution index, Nemeiro comprehensive pollution index and potential ecological risk index were used to evaluate the degree of heavy metal pollution and ecological risk. Finally, multivariate statistical analysis was used to analyze the sources of soil heavy metals. The results show that the measured elements are polluted to different degrees, mainly due to the ecological environment problems caused by extensive mining development methods and inefficient utilization of resources. The key link is the release of pollutants at the source. Effectively blocking the release at the source can cut off the possibility of pollutants entering the food chain and the circulation of materials in the ecosystem. The results of potential ecological risk index showed that the potential ecological damage of seven heavy metals was ranked as follows: Cd (97.67) > Hg (68.97) > As (14.29) > Pb (11.55) > Ni (4.62) > Zn (1.61) > Cu (1.45) had a high ecological risk coefficient, and the potential comprehensive ecological risk index was 200.16 and the degree was medium. Principal component analysis shows that the sources of heavy metals are divided into Pb, Cd, As, Zn and Hg mainly from human activities such As mining, while Ni and Cu mainly come from soil parent materials, mining and agricultural activities.


Introduction
Yunnan, known as the "Kingdom of Nonferrous Metals", depends largely on the development of the nonferrous metal industry, which plays a pivotal role in Yunnan . The mining of lead-zinc mines not only promotes local economic development, but also brings a series of ecological and environmental problems (Feng et al., 2020;Li et al., 2021c;Lu et al., 2014). Heavy metals are not easily degradable, easy to accumulate, have high toxicity and strong environmental persistence. Long-term discharge of heavy metals in soil will not only have a negative impact on soil functions, but also pose potential threats to humans through direct human contact, food chain, and floating and sinking.
Even cause various diseases (Ning et al., 2021;Peng et al., 2013). Therefore, taking the soil in the geological high background value area as the research object, It is of great significance for the sustainable development of the study area to analyze the potential ecological hazards and sources of heavy metal pollution in the soil around the mining area.
At present, many scholars have carried out research on soil heavy metals in geologically high background areas, and there are a large number of articles on mining pollution in mining areas and serious heavy metal pollution in farmland soil. Different physical and chemical properties lead to obvious differences in soil types, pollutant distribution and characteristics. Jiang et al. (2021) analyzed and measured Cu, Cd, Pb, Zn, Mn, Hg, As The content of heavy metals and heavy metals in different soil layers were evaluated for pollution degree and potential ecological risk. Ren et al. (2021) analyzed the degree of soil heavy metal pollution in this area caused by coal mining in western Yuxi and analyzed its characteristics. Cheng et al. (2021) measured the content of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn) in the edible part of three farmland soils of corn, rice and facility vegetables in key phosphate rock distribution areas in Yunnan-Guizhou region, and analyzed the characteristics of heavy metal pollution in farmland soils. Li et al. (2021a) took an abandoned lead-zinc mine in the agricultural and animal husbandry interlaced zone in the central and southern section of the Daxing'an Mountains as an example, collected soil samples at different depths, compared and analyzed the spatial distribution characteristics of heavy metals in the mining area, and used the geoaccumulation index method and ecological risk assessment method to evaluate the mining area. For Heavy metal accumulation levels and potential ecological risks, taking Jinzhou City as the research area, Li et al. (2021b) analyzed the pollution characteristics of soil heavy metals As, Cd, Hg,Cu, Cu, Pb, Zn, and Ni. The statistical results of heavy metal content in soil samples were Cd, Cu, Cr, Hg, Ni, and Pb. The content is higher than the soil background value in Liaoning Province. Most of the current research focuses on the analysis of the characteristics of polluted areas, and even some research areas are in an unknown state of the source of heavy metal pollution in the soil of lead-zinc mining areas (Ma et al., 2019;Feng et al., 2017). Therefore, while studying the characteristics and sources of heavy metal pollution in the soil around H. C. Yang et al. DOI: 10.4236/gep.2022.103012 Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection the mine, it is also necessary to analyze the correlation of its sources and the spatial correlation of surface changes through the reflection of the direction between the sampling points.
In this study, the content and distribution characteristics of soil heavy metals in the mining area of Shangri-La, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture were analyzed, and 35 surface soil samples (0 -20 cm) were randomly collected to determine the Pb, Zn, Ni, Cd, Hg, Cu and As in the soil (Lv, 2021). The single-factor pollution index, Nemerow comprehensive pollution index (Yang & Zeng, 2014) and potential ecological risk index were used to evaluate the pollution degree and ecological risk of heavy metals (Yang et al., 2022;Wan et al., 2020;Yang et al., 2018). On this basis, Pearson correlation coefficient analysis was used to determine the source of heavy metal elements (Sungur et al., 2014), and Kriging interpolation method combined (Chen et al., 2022;Guo et al., 2022) with principal component analysis was used to determine the source of pollution (Guo et al., 2012). In this paper, while studying the sources of soil pollution around the mining area, the sources of heavy metal pollution were obtained through correlation analysis and spatial correlation analysis was used to weight the measured values to obtain predictions of unmeasured values (Zhou et al., 2018;Chen et al., 2011;Luo et al., 2015). This provides data support for soil environmental quality protection and heavy metal pollution prevention and control around the mining area, and provides a theoretical basis for sustainable land use and ecological development.

Study Area
Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is located in the northwest of Yunnan Province, at the junction of Yunnan, Tibet and Sichuan provinces. Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is located at the southeastern end of the "Asian Water Tower", with an average elevation of 3380 m in the region. The upper reaches of Jinsha River and Lancang River run through Diqing Prefecture (Chen et al., 2020). The annual average temperature ranges from 4.7˚C to 16.5˚C, which is a subtropical monsoon climate with an annual extreme maximum temperature of 25.1˚C and a minimum temperature of −27.4˚C. The three-dimensional climate is obvious. There is a saying that "one mountain has four seasons, and ten miles has different days." (He et al., 2019). There are mainly more than 30 kinds of minerals such as copper, tungsten, molybdenum, lead and zinc. In this study, a total of 35 sample points were collected in a mining area in Shangri-La, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Figure 1), and 0 -20 cm topsoil was taken from each sample point.

Sample Collection and Determination
The soil around the mining area in Shangri-La City was sampled in November The soil samples were naturally air-dried indoors to remove impurities such as gravel and plant residues, passed through a 0.15 mm aperture nylon sieve, and stored in ziplock bags for future use.
The heavy metal elements in soil samples were Pb, Cd, As, Zn, Ni, Cu and Hg.
The determination methods of each element are: lead and cadmium are determined by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry; arsenic and mercury are determined by atomic fluorescence method; zinc, nickel and copper are determined by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
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Soil Heavy Metal Pollution Assessment
1) The one-factor exponential method (P i ) is calculated as: P i = C i /S i In the formula, C i is the actual measured value of soil heavy metal pollution i (mg/kg); S i is the evaluation standard of soil heavy metal i (mg/kg). Grading standards are shown in Table 1.
In the formula, P N represents the comprehensive pollution index of soil heavy metal pollutant i, P i is the average value of the single pollution index of heavy metal i, and P imax is the largest single pollution index of heavy metal i. Grading standards are shown in Table 1.

Potential Ecological Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Soil
The Swedish chemist Hankanson proposed the evaluation method of potential ecological risk index in 1980. While considering the content of heavy metals in soil, it also comprehensively considers the synergy of multiple elements, pollution concentrations, differences in biological toxicity of each element, ecological effects, and environmental sensitivity to heavy metal pollution. This method is widely used in the pollution assessment of heavy metal pollution in soil.
The calculation formula is: is the pollution index of heavy metal i; i r T is the toxicity response coefficient of heavy metal i, which reflects the toxicity level of heavy metals and the sensitivity of the environment to heavy metal pollution, and is used to consider the degree of harm caused by heavy metal elements to organisms (Liu et al., 2020). The toxicity response coefficients of elements Pb, Cd, As, Zn, Ni, Cu and Hg were 5, 30, 10, 1, 5, 2 and 40, respectively.

Data Processing and Analysis
The test data were processed and plotted with Excel, SPSS 26.0 was used for multivariate statistical analysis, and ArcGIS 10.6 was used for the distribution map of sampling sites and the spatial distribution map of the content of heavy metal elements.

Characteristics of Heavy Metal Content in Soil
The statistical results of the content characteristics of the seven heavy metals in the study area are shown in Table 3. There are certain differences in the contents of heavy metal elements in the soil. The content of heavy metals in the soil  and Zn pollution are the most serious, which obviously exceed the standard.
The degree of influence of human activities in this area can be characterized by the coefficient of variation, and the grading standard is: Cv < 10% is weak variation, 10% ≤ Cv ≤ 30% is moderate variation, and Cv > 30% is strong variation. It can be seen from Table 3 that the highest variation coefficient of the seven heavy metals in this area is 113% and the lowest is 35%, all of which are greater than 30% larger.

Soil Heavy Metal Pollution Assessment
The characteristics of soil heavy metal pollution in the study area are that the single-factor pollution index of Cd in the soil is 5.35, which belongs to heavy pollution; the single-factor pollution index of Pb is 2.23, which is moderate pollution; the single-factor pollution index of As, Zn and Hg is 1.43 and 1.61. and 1.23, which are lightly polluted; Ni and Cu are in the clean state ( Figure 2).
The evaluation results of the Nemerow comprehensive pollution index of heavy metals in the soil of the mining area are shown in Table 4. Among them, Hg is a clean state, Cd is a light pollution, and the Nemerow comprehensive index of the remaining five heavy metal pollution is more than 3, which belongs to

Evaluation of Potential Ecological Risk Index of Heavy Metals in Soil
The potential ecological risk coefficient i r E and ecological risk index RI of heavy metals in the soil of the study area are shown in

Correlation Analysis
The study used Pearson correlation analysis to determine the relationship between heavy metal content in soil parts. The soil Pearson correlation coefficient and its significance level are shown in Table 6. The correlations were significant at the level of P ≤ 0.05, and there were significant correlations between Pb and Cd, Cd and Ni, and Zn and Hg. At the level of P ≤ 0.01, there is a very significant positive correlation between Pb, Zn and Cd, a very significant positive correlation between Cu and Ni, and a very significant positive correlation between Hg and As. There is a very significant positive correlation between Cu and Ni, and no significant correlation with other heavy metals. There is a very significant positive correlation between Pb, Cd and Zn, and the correlation coefficient is the   highest, indicating that these three heavy metals have similar sources. There is a negative correlation between Pb and As, Ni, and Hg, indicating that there are different sources among them. There is a negative correlation between Hg and Ni, and their sources are different.

Spatial Correlation
Kriging is based on weighting surrounding measurements to arrive at a predic- that the high value of Cu is mainly around the ore point, which is also in line with the correlation between Ni and Cu. significant correlation. Therefore, soil-forming parent material and Cu ore mining are the main sources of Ni in soil.

Principal Component Analysis
To further study the relationship between heavy metals, principal component analysis was performed. PCA was used to reduce the dimensionality of seven heavy metal elements, and multiple single indicators were converted into a few comprehensive indicators, and a total of 3 comprehensive factors were obtained.
The results show that the contribution rates of the first to third principal components are 39.124%, 20.034% and 18.760%, and the total contribution rate is 77.919% (Table 7). Through the analysis of the four principal components, it is concluded that: The loading factors of Pb, Cd, As and Zn in the first principal component are higher, especially the two elements dominated by Cd and Zn reflect the enrichment in the soil (Liu et al., 2011). The study shows that the zinc in the soil mainly comes from zinc Lead mining, smelting and processing, etc., cadmium is extracted from zinc-lead ores and sulfur-cadmium ores as by-products. The enrichment of cadmium and zinc in soil is closely related to lead-zinc mining in the study area, which is related to Table 6. The analysis results are consistent, so the first principal component mainly represents human activities such as mining operations.
The proportion of Hg and As in the second principal component contributed 20.023%, and the positive load was higher, which also reflected the source of Hg and As. Correlation analysis showed that Hg was significantly significant with As and Zn, and negatively correlated with Pb, indicating that its sources are not similar, and the significant sources of As and Cd indicate that they have similar sources. The data show that Hg and As are the main sources. It is enriched in the vicinity of the mining site, and is released in the mining and smelting of the mining area and finally enters the soil environment after migration and transformation.
The third main component of nickel and copper is 18.76%. Ni is mainly from geological sources, reflecting the accumulation of soil parent materials and their weathering products. There is very little elemental Cu in the natural environment, mainly in the minerals, there is a significant correlation between Cu and Ni, so it is judged that there is a similar source or there is complex pollution.
Through the observation of Table 7 and Table 8, it can be concluded that the general situation of heavy metal pollution can be reflected objectively by these three principal components. Therefore, the selected three principal components are analyzed, using these three comprehensive factors (PC1, PC2, PC3). It can fully reflect a large amount of information in the original data.
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Conclusion
In the 0 -20 cm soil layer of the mining area, the content, ecological risk and correlation of each heavy metal element were analyzed. Pb, Cd, As, Zn and Hg exceeded the soil background values in Yunnan Province by 2.31, 5.53, 1.43, 1.61 and 1.23 times, respectively, and Pb, Cd and Zn were the most polluted. The coefficients of variation are all greater than 30%, indicating that the soil heavy metal content in the study area is very likely to be polluted by external factors.
The single-factor pollution degree of heavy metal pollution in soil was as follows: Cd and Pb were heavily polluted and moderately polluted, As, Zn, Hg were mildly polluted, and Ni and Cu were clean. Using the Nemerow comprehensive index evaluation method, it is concluded that the Pb, As, Zn, Ni and Cu in this area are heavily polluted, and the rest are light or clean.
The potential ecological risk index evaluation method found that the potential ecological risk level of Cd was high pollution, Hg was medium pollution, and the rest of heavy metal elements belonged to low risk level. Its potential comprehensive ecological risk index is 200.16, which is a medium risk level.