EM - Escola de Minas
URI permanente desta comunidadehttp://www.hml.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/6
Notícias
A Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto foi fundada pelo cientista Claude Henri Gorceix e inaugurada em 12 de outubro de 1876.
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Item Impacts of mining in artificial lake of Iron Quadrangle-MG : past marks and changes of the present.(2019) Campos, Larissa Paraguassú; Leite, Mariangela Garcia Praça; Moreira, Francisco Wagner Araujo; Mendonça, Fellipe Pinheiro Chagas; Sant'Anna, Eneida Maria EskinaziA locus of intense mining activity since the seventeenth century, the Iron Quadrangle, corresponds to one of the most important mineral provinces in the world. Located in Minas Gerais, Brazil, it keeps in its territory marks of past mining activities still in expansion. Such changes, recorded in water bodies of the region’s watersheds, impact not only locally, but also reach adjacent ecosystems as well as those located downstream of mining companies. In this situation, an artificial lake is found in the upper course of the Mata Porcos creek sub-basin. The area was once an old place of gold exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and is currently influenced by active iron mining and inactive iron–manganese mining upstream. With the aim of evaluating this reservoir and contributing to the understanding of lentic systems under the influence of mining, this study analyzed the physical and chemical characteristics of sediments from the bottom of this lake, identifying the possible contributions of anthropic origin. Sediment samples were collected at nine points along two hydrological years and then submitted to granulometric, mineralogical and geochemical analyses. The geochemical signature of this lake is marked by As, Fe and Mn elements associated with both the local geological substrate and anthropic activities undertaken in the surroundings. Due to the high As concentrations, distribution maps were made using the IDW interpolation method to understand the distribution of this potentially toxic element that has a strong correlation with gold mining practiced for more than 300 years at the site.Item Geochemical mapping of potentially hazardous elements in surface waters and stream sediments of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil.(2018) Costa, Raphael de Vicq Ferreira da; Matschullat, Jörg; Leite, Mariangela Garcia Praça; Nalini Júnior, Hermínio Arias; Leão, Lucas PereiraGeochemical mapping and the determination of baseline concentrations of potentially hazardous elements in the environment receive increasing attention. The need to know regional geochemical background data as well as the spatial allocation of areas with anomalous element concentrations and chances to identify their major sources motivate the interest. Here, results from a geochemical mapping exercise and derived related baseline values are presented. 541 stream sediment and surface waters samples have been collected across the Iron Quadrangle (IQ), Brazil, with a density of 1 sample per 13 km2. Geochemical maps were compiled using the inverse distance weighted (lDW) interpolation method. “Normal” background concentrations were distinguished from anomalies with the separation-by-concentrationrange technique, where positive anomalies were defined by the “boxplot” Upper Inner Fence (UIF) rule. The results demonstrate that more than 70% of the IQ area shows geogenic background concentration ranges for the elements studied. About 20% of the area represent positive anomalies, likely related to both near surface rock types and to human interference. Distinct anthropogenic anomalies, notably from mining activities are identified in 5– 10% of all samples. This first sampling in the IQ allows delineation of the role of lithology on the elemental composition of stream sediments, and to establish baseline values for the main river basins – thus pinpointing localities, cities and fluvial basins that are exposed to environmental risks and need to be protected.