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Finkelman, R.B., J.A. Centano, and B. Zheng. 1998. Etiology of arsenism in Guizhou Province, southwest China. SEGH 3rd Inter. Conf. Arsenic Expos. Health Effects 100. 

Horan M. E, Morgan J. W, Grauch R. I., Coveney R. M. Jr., Murowchick J. B., and Hulbert L. J. (1994). Rhenium and osmium isotopes in black shales and Ni-Mo-PGE-rich sulfide layers, Yukon Territory, Canada, and Hunan and Guizhou provinces, China. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 58 257-265. 

Some whole coals in southwest Guizhou province, China (Xingren county) have up to 32 000 mg kg-1 of arsenic (Dai et al., 2005 Belkin, 1998 Ren et al., 1999). Although these coals are primarily responsible for the arsenic poisoning in the province, they are very localized (Dai et al., 2005), 128 (Dai, Zeng and Sun, 2006). Dai et al. (2005) actually found that 71 whole-seam coals from the western portion of the province contained no more than 11 mg kg-1 of arsenic, which is lower than many other Chinese and American coals (Table 3.22). 

Belkin, H.E. (1998) Mineralogy and speciation of arsenic in coals of the Upper Permian Longtan Formation, Guizhou Province, P. R. China. Abstracts with Programs. The Geological Society of America, 30(7), 59. 

Dai, S., Ren, D Tang, Y. et al. (2005) Concentration and distribution of elements in Late Permian coals from western Guizhou Province, China. International Journal of Coal Geology, 61(1-2), 119-37. 

The use of locally mined, high-arsenic (>100 ppm) coals has caused arsenic poisoning in several villages in Guizhou Province, China (Fig. 17.2 Zhou et al, 1993). Although coal has been produced and used in this area for 100 years, only with the increase in population and subsequent deforestation have some villages and... 

Figure 17.1 Map showing the position of Guizhou Province in the People s Republic of China and the location of the three sampling areas. Box shows the outline of the geologic index map (Fig. 17.2).

Table 17.2 Partial geochemistry of selected coals from southwestern Guizhou Province, PR China...

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Belkin, H. E., Zheng, B., Zhou, D., and Finkelman, R. B. (1997). Preliminary results on the geochemistry and mineralogy of arsenic in mineralized coals from endemic arsenosis areas in Guizhou Province, P.R. China. In Proceedings, Fourteenth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference Workshop, 23-27 September, 1997, Taiyuan, Shanxi, People s Republic of China, CD-ROM, p. 1-20. 

Ding Z., Finkelman R., Belkin H., Aheng B., Hu T., and Xie U. (2000) The mode of occurrence of arsenic in high arsenic coals from endemic arsenosis areas in Southwest Guizhou province, China. Metal Ions Biol. Med. 6, 56-58. 

Silver Falls, Tianxing Bridge Park, Guizhou Province, China. 

The main cause of acid rain in China is the industrial and domestic combustion of coal. Many of the furnaces have short chimney stacks and have minimal controls. The content of sulfur varies between different regions. In Beijing, the sulfur content of coal is circa 1 %, whereas in Guizhou province in the south it is between 3 and 5%. 

In the Guizhou Province in southwest China, local coal with an extremely high arsenic content (up to 3.5%) is used for cooking. Chili peppers dried over open coal-burning stoves contained > 500 mg As kg , compared with normal As levels < 1 mg kg . Similar levels were also found in other tainted foods and kitchen dust, whereas As in drinking water in this area does not appear to be an important contamination factor (Finkelman et al. 1999). 

Arsenic poisoning from food ingestion is rare, but has been documented. In some regions of Guizhou Province in southwestern China, certain food items (such as corn and chili pepper) are dried over open fires fueled with high-arsenic coal. Chili peppers dried over the coal fires absorb 500 pg/g arsenic on average. Consumption of arsenic-contaminated foods causes chronic arsenic poisoning (33). 

Acknowlefiginents This work was supported by the foundation of National University of Mtilaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (FF-013-2012) Key Technologies R D Programme of Department of Science and Technology of Guizhou Province, China (SY[2012]3126) and (SY[2011]3029). 

China News Net. 2012. M 5.7 earthquake occurred near the border of Yiliang County, Yunnan Province and Weining County, Guizhou Province at 11 19 September 7, 2012. http //www.chmanews.eom/gn/z/ yunguiearthqua/ce/index, shtmt (in Chinese). 

M48 Cinnabar HgS, trigonal crystals with a twin crystal, from Tongren and Dayan in Guizhou province in China. The name was possibly taken from an old Persian word for dragon blood. 

Yan, H., Feng, X., Shang, L., Qiu, G., Dai, Q., Wang, S. Hou, Y. (2008) The variations of mercury in sediment profiles from a historically merctny-contaminaled reservoir. Guizhou province, China. Science of the Total Environment, 407,497-506. 

The high phosphoms oolitic iron was collected from GuiZhou Province of China, which was puce with bulk stmcture. The chemical composition and iron physical phase of the iron ore are showed in Table 1 and 11. 

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