Contaminants · Metals
CobaltCo
A metal. Like any element it does not break down: it can be taken out of the soil or water, held in place or changed in chemical form, but not destroyed.
On the national lists
Sites on the national lists whose official record names this substance. In the bar, the coloured part is the sites still listed. The lists, in full, are on the sites page.
United States
Superfund National Priorities List (NPL)207 sites, 170 still listed
Species reported in the literature
Species that acted on this contaminant in at least one study, with the highest level of evidence available. They are pointers from the literature, not a remediation plan.
Sites where it is found
Where plants or fungi were tried
SIN, Torviscosa (Udine)
Caffaro di Torviscosa (formerly Grado and Marano Lagoon)
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Chambishi (tra Kitwe e Chingola), Zambia
Chambishi and the Kafue river (Zambian Copperbelt)
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Haut-Katanga, Congo - Kinshasa
Lubumbashi and the Katangan Copperbelt
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Monchegorsk nickel-copper smelter and industrial barren
PhytoremediationMycoremediation
Trial, Toscana
Scarlino, ceneri di arsenopirite (ex Nuova Solmine)
Phytoremediation
SIN, Taranto, Statte
Taranto
Phytoremediation
The other sites with a page
In Italy
- BrindisiPuglia
- Massa and CarraraMassa, Carrara
Elsewhere in the world
- Rum Jungle uranium-copper mineBatchelor, Australia