GOLD MINES AND IMPACT OF HEAVY METALS ON THE ENVIRONMENT

This research report puts light on the research and the study of gold mining plant in Oman and its assessment and its contribution of gold mining into various other environmental media on the basis of heavy metals. In this research study, various samples were collected from crop plants, stream waters and soil of the plant area of gold mining. In this research the collected samples were further examined for thirteen heavy metals such as barium (Ba), iron (Fe), strontium (Sr), aluminum (Al), zinc (Zn), lead (Pb), cobalt (Co), cadmium (C d), copper (Cu),nickel (Ni), manganese (Mn), Chromium (Cr), vanadium (V). During the investigation, the acid evaporation pond, the water showed a high amount of concentration of iron as we ll as a few of the residual quantities of zinc, vanadium and aluminum, on the other hand water for the citizens showed the concentrations all above Who standards and Omani.