Investigação de contaminação por cobre nos moradores de Santana-AP com exposição à rejeitos de minérios

Abstract

The Amazon industrial development, in the Northern region of Brazil, resulted in many environmental disasters, which is a local concern. The Northern region is abundant in several ores, thus the mining activities is accountable for most of the environmental disasters, which always will affect the local population, manly riverside dwellers, because their way of life is directly related to the natural resourses, like river water, fish consumption, which most of the contamination due to mining accumulates through the food chain, and among those rejects is the copper metal, wichi is the trace element investigated in the study of this contamination, as approach yours various aspects, since your discovery, until yours various application. This presented paper objecfies to evaluate the contamination degree by copper ore, and analyse the inffluence of contamination on the local population. The number of participants was 100 peoples, which 50 of them were exposed, and 50 weren`t, their biological matters (blood and urine) were anlysed in order to obtain results as copper concentration in their urine and also kidney analyse and hepatics biochemical marker. Local water analysis in several collecting points was done. In the end, there were evidences of contamination by copper ore, by pottable water analysis, but also the blood test and urine test also suggests contamination by cooper ore