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Interactive Effect of Copper and Its Mineral Collectors on Soil Microbial Activity—A Microcalorimetric Analysis
Beijing Key Laboratory of Resource-Oriented Treatment of Industrial Pollution, School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China
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Beijing Key Laboratory of Resource-Oriented Treatment of Industrial Pollution, School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China
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Beijing Key Laboratory of Resource-Oriented Treatment of Industrial Pollution, School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China
1 Beijing Key Laboratory of Resource-Oriented Treatment of Industrial Pollution, School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China
2 Beijing Key Laboratory of Resource-Oriented Treatment of Industrial Pollution, School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China
3 Beijing Key Laboratory of Resource-Oriented Treatment of Industrial Pollution, School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China
Discharge of metals and their mineral flotation collectors into the soil environment causes severe ecological and health impacts, which is still not fully understood. This is of great concern, particularly with regards to their effect on the soil microorganisms whose functions determine not only the soil quality and function but also influence the air and water quality. This study aimed to analyze and compare, microcalorimetrically, the single chemical toxic effect with the combined effect of copper (Cu) and two of its main flotation collectors, potassium amyl xanthate (PAX) and sodium isoamyl xanthate (SIAX), on soil microbial community. All chemicals, individually and as a binary mixture of copper and each of its flotation collectors, exhibited a significant dose-effect relationship, and the highest and lowest microbial activity inhibition being associated with SIAX and Cu, respectively (e.g. IC 50 of 447.5, 158.3 and 83.9 μg·g −1 soil for copper, PAX and SIAX, respectively). For all cases, the microbial activity was more affected by the mixture than by the individual mixture components. Increasing the xanthates dose (from 25 to 100 μg·g −1 soil) in the mixture with a copper dose of 200 μg·g −1 soil led to the increase of the microbial activity inhibition rate, from 23.08 % to 53.85% in case of PAX and from 26.92% to 57.69% in case of SIAX). Similarly, the toxicity level of the mixture of equitoxic components doses increased with the increased mixture doses. Since the observed activity level can be attributed to the surviving microbes, capable of adapting to both chemical and their mixture, a genetically based analysis should be conducted to allow identifying and characterizing the potentially resistant strains that can be useful for the remediation of the pollution by copper and xanthates and for the sustainability of copper mining and flotation, and for all soil, water, and air quality and function interest.
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