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Past mining activities in the area of Silvermines, Ireland, have resulted in heavily polluted soils. Thepossibility of spreading pollution to the surrounding areas through dust blow-offs poses a potential threatfor the local communities. Conventional environmental soil and dust analysis techniques are very slowand laborious and consequently there is a need for fast and accurate analyticalmethods, which can providereal-time in situ pollution mapping.Laboratory-based aqua regia acid digestion of the soil samples collected in the area followed bythe atomic absorption spectrophotometry (AAS) analysis confirmed very high pollution, especially byPb, As, Cu, and Zn. In parallel, samples were analyzed using portable X-ray fluorescence radioisotopeand miniature tube powered (XRF) NITON instruments and their performance was compared. Overall,the portable XRF instrument gave excellent correlation with the laboratory-based reference AASmethod.
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