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1. Selenium Pollution Around the World
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location
North Carolina, USA
Cause of
Se pollution
Coal-combustion waste
Major aquatic
life affected
Reservoir fish
2
Pennsylvania, USA
Coal-landfill waste
Stream fish
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Kentucky, USA
Minnesota USA
Texas, USA
Louisiana, USA
Utah, USA
Idaho, USA
California, USA
Yukon, Canada
Alberta, Canada
Ontario, Canada
Chihuahua, Mexico
Quito, Ecuador
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
London, United
Kingdom
Stockholm, Sweden
Tomn, Poland
Perrier Vittel. France
Cairo, Egypt
Capetown, South
Africa
Jerusalem, Israel
New Delhi, India
Wan Chai, Hong Kong
New South Wales,
Australia
Coal-mining waste
Municipal-landfill
leachate
Coal-combustion waste
Oil-refinery waste
Irrigation drainage
Phosphate-mining waste
Irrigation drainage
Gold-mining waste
Coal-mining waste
Metal-smelting waste
Irrigation drainage
Gold and silver-mining
waste
Gold-mining waste
Municipal-landfill
leachate
Municipal-landfill
leachate
Nickel and silver-mining
waste
Gold and nickel mining
waste
Irrigation drainage
Gold-mining waste
Irrigation drainage
Oil-refinery waste
Municipal-landfill
leachate
Coal-combusion waste
Stream fish
Stream fish
Reservoir fish
Aquatic birds
Fish, aquatic birds
Fish, aquatic birds
Aquatic birds, fish
Stream fish
Stream fish
Stream and lake fish
Stream and river fish
Stream fish
Stream fish
Stream fish
Stream fish
Stream fish
Stream fish
Fish, aquatic birds
Fish, aquatic birds
Fish, aquatic birds
Fish, aquatic birds
Fish, aquatic birds
Lake and estuarine
fish
concentrations of 2 to 20 J.lg Se/g, which is also similar to that of raw
coal. Thus, many of the concerns about selenium contamination from
the solid waste and surface residuals of phosphate mining parallel those
of coal mining. Phosphate mining in the western United States occurs
primarily in areas of low annual precipitation «40 cmlyr). Consequently, the potential for large quantities of selenium to be leached