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Sustainable Environment
An international journal of environmental health and sustainability
Volume 8, 2022 - Issue 1
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Environmental risk assessment of heavy metals contamination in the catchment of small-scale mining enclave in Prestea Huni-Valley District, Ghana

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Article: 2062825 | Received 30 Sep 2021, Accepted 03 Apr 2022, Published online: 19 Apr 2022

Figures & data

Figure 1. Prestea Huni-Valley District map with the study community marked with a green pentagon symbol.

Figure 1. Prestea Huni-Valley District map with the study community marked with a green pentagon symbol.

Figure 2. Descriptive statistics of heavy metal concentration in water samples tested.

Figure 2. Descriptive statistics of heavy metal concentration in water samples tested.

Figure 3. Descriptive statistics of heavy metal concentrations in soil samples examined.

Figure 3. Descriptive statistics of heavy metal concentrations in soil samples examined.

Figure 4. Corresponding enrichment factor values for the soil samples.

Figure 4. Corresponding enrichment factor values for the soil samples.

Figure 5. Corresponding geoaccumulation index values for the soil samples.

Figure 5. Corresponding geoaccumulation index values for the soil samples.

Figure 6. Corresponding contamination factor and pollution load index values for the soil samples.

Figure 6. Corresponding contamination factor and pollution load index values for the soil samples.

Figure 7. Result of “Pearson’s correlation coefficient of heavy metals in water samples”.

Figure 7. Result of “Pearson’s correlation coefficient of heavy metals in water samples”.

Figure 8. Results of Pearson’s correlation coefficient “of heavy metals in soil samples”.

Figure 8. Results of Pearson’s correlation coefficient “of heavy metals in soil samples”.