Cover layers to the growth of trees and shrobs over a sulfide spoil from gold mining

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Igor Rodrigues De Assis²  Luiz Eduardo Dias²  Walter Antônio Pereira Abrahão²  Emerson Silva Ribeiro Jr¹  Jaime Wilson Vargas De Mello² 

[1],Universidade Federal de Viçosa Departamento de Solos ,Brasil

关键词: Sulfide substrate;    Reforestation;    Land reclamation;    Substrato sulfetado;    Revegetação;    Recuperação de áreas degradadas;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-67622011000500019

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This work was done at a gold mine company in Paracatu, MG, Brazil, and was conducted from March 2000 to November 2005. The substrate (spoil) studied was a phillite rock which contains sulfides such as pyrite and arsenopyrite. This study aimed to evaluate the survival and growth of plant species on different combinations of substrate layers over the spoil. These layers were a cover layer and a sealing layer, both deposited over the spoil. The treatment 1 had saprolite (B1) in the sealing layer (SL) and B1 with liming (B1L) in the cover layer (CL). The treatment 2 had B1 in SL and B1L + soil with liming (SoL) in the CL. The treatment 3 had B1 + SoL in the SL and B1L in the CL. The treatment 4 had B1 + SoL in the SL and B1L + SoL in the CL. The plant species used were Acacia farnesiana, A. holosericea, A. polyphylla, Albizia lebbeck, Clitoria fairchildiana, Flemingia sp., Mimosa artemisiana, M. bimucronata e Enterolobium contortisiliquum. Forty and 57 months after planting, collardiameter, height, and living plants were evaluated. The greatest survival rate was oobservedintreatmentwith B horizon of an Oxisoil in both layers, with 80 %. In general, M. bimucronata and A. farnesiana species showed the highest survival rate. The arsenic-content by Mehlich 3 in the cover layer ranged from 0.00 to 14.69 mg dm- 3 among treatments. The experimental results suggest that layers combinations above the sulfide substrate allow the rapid revegetation of the spoil.

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