RT Journal Article
T1 Gold as Pollution Tracer in Holocene Sediments of the Doñana National Park, the Largest Biological Reserve in Europe
A1 Romero Aguilar, Verónica
A1 Ruiz Muñoz, Francisco
A1 González-Regalado Montero, María Luz
A1 Cáceres Puro, Luis Miguel
A1 Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín
A1 Toscano Grande, Antonio
A1 Gómez Gutiérrez, Paula
A1 Gómez Álvarez, Gabriel
AB Estuaries are excellent containers for the prehistorical and historical pollution that develops in their river basins. This paper studies the Au contents obtained by inductively coupled plasma spectrometry of two cores extracted from the Doñana National Park (Guadalquivir Estuary, SW Spain). Concentrations of this precious metal have been associated with the different prehistoric and historical stages of exploitation of the Iberian Pyritic Belt. The three detected peaks correspond to the first mining operations in the area around the park, the first systematic Tartessian mining and strong exploitation during the Roman period. Consequently, Au is an appropriate marker of the contamination phases prior to its current extraordinary biological diversity.
PB MDPI
SN 2075-163X (electrónico)
YR 2025
FD 2025-07-30
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27038
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27038
LA eng
NO Romero, V., Ruiz, F., González-Regalado, M. L., Carretero, M. I., Pozo, M., Monge, G., Cáceres, L. M., Vidal, J. R., Abad, M., Izquierdo, T., Toscano, A., Gómez, P., & Gómez, G. (2025). Gold as Pollution Tracer in Holocene Sediments of the Doñana National Park, the Largest Biological Reserve in Europe. Minerals, 15(8), 801. https://doi.org/10.3390/min15080801
NO This research was supported by the project "El arco atlántico del sudoeste hispano desde la protohistoria hasta la Tardoantiguedad: Evolución geomorfológica, ocupación litoral y sistemas portuarios" (PID2022-142778NB-I00), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain. This work was also funded by the research groups RNM-238 and RNM-293 (University of Huelva). It is a contribution to the Centre for Research in Historical, Cultural and Natural Heritage of the University of Huelva.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026