... mapping characterization further confirmed that FeS 2 was the main mineral of pyrite ores which contained relatively enriched toxic heavy metals (e.g., Pb and Cd). The findings highlight that an extremely large amount of geochemically mobile heavy metals can be released into the environmental media during...

... the open water and eventually the oceans, thereby affecting the global nutrient cycle ( Ehrenfeld et al., 2005 ; Borrelli et al., 2012 ; Struyf and Conley, 2012 ; Liu et al., 2019 ; Ochoa-Hueso et al., 2019 ; Xia et al., 2020 ). Heavy metal pollution is common globally, especially in estuarine...