caa a22 4500 606199993 CHVBK 20210128100941.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10653-014-9669-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10653-014-9669-5 Atmospheric particulate matter in proximity to mountaintop coal mines: sources and potential environmental and human health impacts [Elektronische Daten] [Laura Kurth, Allan Kolker, Mark Engle, Nicholas Geboy, Michael Hendryx, William Orem, Michael McCawley, Lynn Crosby, Calin Tatu, Matthew Varonka, Christina DeVera] Mountaintop removal mining (MTM) is a widely used approach to surface coal mining in the US Appalachian region whereby large volumes of coal overburden are excavated using explosives, removed, and transferred to nearby drainages below MTM operations. To investigate the air quality impact of MTM, the geochemical characteristics of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) from five surface mining sites in south central West Virginia, USA, and five in-state study control sites having only underground coal mining or no coal mining whatsoever were determined and compared. Epidemiologic studies show increased rates of cancer, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, and overall mortality in Appalachian surface mining areas compared to Appalachian non-mining areas. In the present study, 24-h coarse (>2.5µm) and fine (≤2.5µm) PM samples were collected from two surface mining sites in June 2011 showed pronounced enrichment in elements having a crustal affinity (Ga, Al, Ge, Rb, La, Ce) contributed by local sources, relative to controls. Follow-up sampling in August 2011 lacked this enrichment, suggesting that PM input from local sources is intermittent. Using passive samplers, dry deposition total PM elemental fluxes calculated for three surface mining sites over multi-day intervals between May and August 2012 were 5.8±1.5 times higher for crustal elements than at controls. Scanning microscopy of 2,249 particles showed that primary aluminosilicate PM was prevalent at surface mining sites compared to secondary PM at controls. Additional testing is needed to establish any link between input of lithogenic PM and disease rates in the study area. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Mountaintop removal mining nationallicence Atmospheric particulate matter nationallicence Lithogenic sources nationallicence Inorganic analysis nationallicence Organic analysis nationallicence Kurth Laura School of Public Health, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 9190, Morgantown, WV, USA aut Kolker Allan Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut Engle Mark Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut Geboy Nicholas Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut Hendryx Michael School of Public Health, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 9190, Morgantown, WV, USA aut Orem William Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut McCawley Michael School of Public Health, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 9190, Morgantown, WV, USA aut Crosby Lynn Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut Tatu Calin Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut Varonka Matthew Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut DeVera Christina Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut Environmental Geochemistry and Health Springer Netherlands 37/3(2015-06-01), 529-544 0269-4042 37:3<529 2015 37 10653 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-014-9669-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-014-9669-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kurth Laura School of Public Health, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 9190, Morgantown, WV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kolker Allan Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Engle Mark Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Geboy Nicholas Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hendryx Michael School of Public Health, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 9190, Morgantown, WV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Orem William Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McCawley Michael School of Public Health, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 9190, Morgantown, WV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crosby Lynn Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tatu Calin Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Varonka Matthew Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- DeVera Christina Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 956, Reston, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Geochemistry and Health Springer Netherlands 37/3(2015-06-01), 529-544 0269-4042 37:3<529 2015 37 10653