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Assessment of Mine Water Quality Using Heavy Metal Pollution Index in a Coal Mining Area of Damodar River Basin, India

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A total no. of 16 mine water (underground and opencast coal mine pump discharges) samples were collected from East Bokaro coalfield during pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon seasons. The concentrations of Fe, Mn, Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni, As, Se, Al, Cd and Cr were determined using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the assessment of spatio-temporal variations, source apportionment and heavy metal pollution indexing. The results demonstrated that concentrations of the metals showed significant seasonality and most variables exhibited higher levels in the pre-monsoon season. The principle component analysis for ionic source identification was synthesized into three factors with eigen values cut off at greater than unity and explained about 64.8% of the total variance. The extracted factors seemed to be associated to the geogenic, extensive mining and allied transportation sources of the elements. The heavy metal pollution index (HPI) of the mine water calculated for the individual locations varied from 7.1 to 49.5. Most of the locations fall under low to medium classes of HPI except few locations which are under the influence of surface mining and associated transportation.

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The authors are sincerely thankful to the Director Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India, for his financial support for the study. The analytical facility provided by CSIR, Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research, Dhanbad is gratefully acknowledged. Our hearty thanks to the Editor-in-Chief and anonymous reviewer for his valuable suggestions to improve the study in the present form.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, 825301, India

    Mukesh Kumar Mahato & Gurdeep Singh

  2. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, 826004, India

    Prasoon Kumar Singh & Ashwani Kumar Tiwari

  3. Environmental Assessment and Remediation Division, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, 826015, India

    Abhay Kumar Singh

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Mahato, M.K., Singh, G., Singh, P.K. et al. Assessment of Mine Water Quality Using Heavy Metal Pollution Index in a Coal Mining Area of Damodar River Basin, India. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 99, 54–61 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-017-2097-3

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