Water quality of streams associated with artisanal gold mining; Suarez, Department of Cauca, Colombia.

ABSTRACT: Gold mining is one of the major problems of contamination of hydric resources in Colombia, this practice generates a high impact on water quality due to the accumulation of waste during its process. In this study water quality was evaluated in five natural stream beds corresponding to four streams with gold mining operations and one in the Cauca River, taking samples before the water inlet and after the outlet in each operation in the streams of Dios Te Dé, Tamboral, Piedra Imán, and Lorenzo affected by artisanal gold mining labor, which drain into the Salvajina Reservoir on the Cauca River in the municipality of Suárez Cauca, Colombia. Characterization of water bodies in the streams was carried out applying contamination indices of Colombia. The IDEAM protocol was used as guide to monitor

SUBMITTER: Gallo Corredor JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8187243 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature