The potential of Zambian Copper-Cobalt hyperaccumulator plants for phytoremediation of polluted (mining/smelter) soils

A. van der Ent; Peter D. Erskine; Royd Vinya; Jolanta Mesjasz-Przybylowicz; Francois Malaisse

doi:10.4324/9780429467424-15

The potential of Zambian Copper-Cobalt hyperaccumulator plants for phytoremediation of polluted (mining/smelter) soils

A. van der Ent, Peter D. Erskine, Royd Vinya, Jolanta Mesjasz-Przybylowicz, Francois Malaisse

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The Copper-Cobalt Belt of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia is one of the most important metallogenic regions in the world. In addition, it hosts the world’s richest metallophyte flora. There are more than 600 metallophytes in the Copper-Cobalt Belt, including many species unique to the area. The phenomenon of abnormal copper-cobalt accumulation in certain plants has been observed since the 1950s in the Copper-Cobalt Belt, with more than thirty hyperaccumulator plants identified. Hyperaccumulator plants might be useful for important phytotechnologies. There is also a wide range of Excluder-type metallophytes in the Copper-Cobalt Belt, especially grasses and sedges, that might be suitable for phytostabilization of minerals wastes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Africa’s Mineral Fortune
Subtitle of host publication	The Science and Politics of Sustainability in the Extractives Industries
Editors	Saleem H. Ali, Kathryn Sturman, Nina Collins
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9780429467424
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429467424-15
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2018
Externally published	Yes

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van der Ent, A., Erskine, P. D., Vinya, R., Mesjasz-Przybylowicz, J., & Malaisse, F. (2018). The potential of Zambian Copper-Cobalt hyperaccumulator plants for phytoremediation of polluted (mining/smelter) soils. In S. H. Ali, K. Sturman, & N. Collins (Eds.), Africa’s Mineral Fortune: The Science and Politics of Sustainability in the Extractives Industries Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429467424-15

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The potential of Zambian Copper-Cobalt hyperaccumulator plants for phytoremediation of polluted (mining/smelter) soils. / van der Ent, A.; Erskine, Peter D.; Vinya, Royd et al.
Africa’s Mineral Fortune: The Science and Politics of Sustainability in the Extractives Industries. ed. / Saleem H. Ali; Kathryn Sturman; Nina Collins. Routledge, 2018.

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