Study on Exposure Factors and Model Specialized
for Human Risk Assessment of Abandoned Mine Area, Korea

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Study on Exposure Factors and Model Specialized for Human Risk Assessment of Abandoned Mine Area, Korea 국내 폐광산지역 인체위해성평가에 적합한 노출인자 및모델에 관한 연구: 이상우·임태용·박미정·이상환·차종문·김순오
Sang-Woo Lee, Tae-Yong Lim, Mi Jeong Park, Sang-Hwan Lee, Jong-Mun Cha and Soon-Oh Kim

31 October 2015. pp. 488-499

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Abstract

Currently, approximately 2,000 abandoned mines was existed in Korea and some of them left withoutmanagement in Korea. Those exert adverse effect to inhabitant around mine area due to contamination of heavymetals in soils, ground water and crops. However, the research related with human risk assessment on abandonedmine area is insufficient in Korea. In this study, the exposure factors, which play a significant role to quantifythe human risk caused by contamination of heavy metal around mine area, were specialized. Also, the specializedmodel for mine area contaminated with heavy metals was applied to estimate human risk . The results werecompared with those obtained from the Korean guidelines for soil risk assessment.

Keywords

Abandoned mine

Heavy metal

Exposure factors

Human risk assessment

현재 국내에는 약 2,000여개의 폐광산이 존재하고 있으며, 이중 일부의 폐광산은 주변에 방치된 폐석,광미에 함유된 중금속의 유출로 인하여 주변 토양, 지하수 및 농작물 오염과 이로 인한 주민 건강의 문제가다수 보고되고 있다. 그러나 폐광산지역 중금속 오염에 의한 인체위해성을 정량적으로 평가하기 위한 기법에대한 연구는 부족한 상황이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 폐광산지역에 특성화된 노출인자를 도출하고, 이를 이용하여 국내 농경지 토양의 우려기준과 대책기준을 기준으로 국내 폐광산 주변의 중금속 오염에 의한 주민들의인체위해성 평가를 수행하여 보았으며, 이 결과를 국내 오염토양 위해성평가지침에 의한 방법과 비교하여 보았다.

키워드

폐광산

중금속

노출인자

인체위해성 평가

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Publisher :The Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers
Publisher(Ko) :한국자원공학회
Journal Title :Journal of the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers
Journal Title(Ko) :한국자원공학회지
Volume : 52
No :5
Pages :488-499
DOI :https://doi.org/10.12972/ksmer.2015.52.5.488

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