Forty-two farmland soil samples were collected from the mining area of Huize City, Yunnan Province, to identify the sources of metals in the farmland soils, and 14 selected elements in farmland soils were detected. The UNMIX model was applied to identify the sources of the metals. The inverse distance weighted interpolation method of statistical analysis in ArcGIS was used to develop a spatial distribution map of the six severely polluted metals to validate the source apportionment results of the UNMIX model.
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