Correction to: Assessment of tailings stability and soil contamination of Kef Ettout (NW Tunisia) abandoned mine

Correction to: Arabian Journal of Geosciences (2019) 12:73

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-018-4204-0

The original version of this paper was published with error. Tables and figures were renumbered during the publication process but captions retained as it was presented from original manuscript. Given in this article are the correct figures, tables and captions.

Fig. 1

Geological map of the of Wadi El Maadene catchment area and and location of study area (Rouvier, 1987; Batik, 1980)

Fig. 2

Location of tailings and soils plots in the study area

Photo 1

The progressed alteration from the external border towards the center of pyrite and galena

Fig. 3

RDX Diffractogramm of tailings sediments showing the presence of calcite, barite, quartz and essentially carbonates of the gangue and neoformed calcite

Fig. 4

Spatial distribution of Pb, Zn and Cd in study area

Fig. 5

Correlation circle on F1 and F2 of the tailings and agricultural soils

Fig. 6

Mean percentages of lead, zinc and cadmium bended to the four fractions of tailings sediments. Dn: Tailing number; F1: Exchangeable and carbonate bound Fraction); F2: Fe and Mn oxide bound Fraction; F3: Organically and sulfur bound Fraction; F4: Residual Fraction

Fig. 7

Mean percentages of lead, zinc and cadmium bended to the four fractions of soil sediments. F1: Exchangeable and carbonate bound Fraction); F2: Fe and Mn oxide bound Fraction; F3: Organically and sulfur bound Fraction; F4: Residual Fraction

Fig. 8

Distribution indexes of exchangeable (U_tf1), Fe-Mn oxides (U_tf2) organic matter (U_tf3) and residual (U_tf4) fractions and binding intensity (I_R) of analyzed metals of tailings sediments. Dn: tailings number

Fig. 9

Mobility factors (MF) of different metals percentages in control (T) and agricultural soils

Table 1 Sequential extraction procedures BCR (the European Community Bureau of Reference)

Table 2 Mean values of physicochemical proprieties of the tailings plots

Table 3 Physicochemical proprieties of initial wastes of ore valorization unity (WOVU)

Table 4 Mean values of physicochemical proprieties of the soil plots

Table 5 Pb, Zn and Cd means concentrations, standard deviations, maximum and minimum concentrations in initial wastes of ore valorization unity (WOVU) in mgkg⁻¹

Table 6 Mean concentrations and their standards Deviations of potentially toxic metals of tailings plots (mgkg⁻¹)

Table 7 Mean concentrations and their standard deviations of potentially toxic metals of soil plots (mgkg⁻¹)

Table 8 Comparison of potentially toxic metal contents with some background values (mgkg⁻¹)