Soil washing for metal removal: a review of physical/chemical technologies and field applications.

By G. Dermont, M. Bergeron, G. Mercier, M. Richer-Laflèche. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2008

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Heavy Metals in Contaminated Soils: A Review of Sources, Chemistry, Risks and Best Available Strategies for Remediation (2011, background): “The equipment used is standard mineral processing equipment, which is more generally used in the mining industry [91].”
Perspectives of plant-associated microbes in heavy metal phytoremediation. (2012, background): “…methods, washing, stabilization/solidification and burial) for clean-up of metal contaminated soils are generally too expensive and often harmful to soil microbial diversity (Ma et al., 1993; McGrath et al., 1995; Mulligan et al., 2001; Pulford and Watson, 2003; Dermont et al., 2008).”
Oxalate production by fungi: significance in geomycology, biodeterioration and bioremediation (2014, background): “Soil washing is one of the few permanent treatment alternatives to remove metal contaminants from soils (Dermont et al., 2008).”
Remediation technologies for heavy metal contaminated groundwater. (2011, methodology): “Di Palma et al. (2005) extracted Cu by Na2-EDTA from an artificially contaminated soil and evaluated the influence of the speed of percolation and chelating agent concentration on the removal efficiency.”