Near-infrared spectroscopy for the prediction of rare earth elements in soils from the largest uranium-phosphate deposit in Brazil using PLS, iPLS, and iSPA-PLS models.

Autor: Maia, Angelo Jamil1 (AUTHOR), da Silva, Yuri Jacques Agra Bezerra2 (AUTHOR) yurijacques@ufpi.edu.br, do Nascimento, Clístenes Williams Araújo1 (AUTHOR), Veras, Germano3 (AUTHOR), Escobar, Maria Eugenia Ortiz4 (AUTHOR), Cunha, Cleyton Saialy Medeiros4 (AUTHOR), da Silva, Ygor Jacques Agra Bezerra1 (AUTHOR), Nascimento, Rennan Cabral1 (AUTHOR), de Souza Pereira, Lavínia Hannah3 (AUTHOR)
Zdroj: Environmental Monitoring & Assessment. Nov2020, Vol. 192 Issue 11, p1-15. 15p.
Abstrakt: The largest uranium-phosphate deposit in Brazil also contains considerable levels of rare earth elements (REEs), which allows for the co-mining of these three ores. The most common methods for REE determination are time-consuming and demand complex sample preparation and use of hazardous reagents. Thus, the development of a safer and faster method to predict REEs in soil could aid in the assessment of these elements. We investigated the efficiency of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to predict REEs in the soil of the uranium-phosphate deposit of Itataia, Brazil. We collected 50 composite topsoil samples in a well-distributed sampling grid along the deposit. The NIR measures in the soils ranged from 750 to 2500 nm. Three partial least squares regressions (PLSR) were selected to calibrate the spectra: full-spectrum partial least squares (PLS), interval partial least squares (iPLS), and successive projections algorithms for interval selection in partial least squares (iSPA-PLS). The concentrations of REEs were measured by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES). In addition to raw spectral data, we also used spectral pretreatments to investigate the effects on prediction results: multiplicative scatter correction (MSC), Savitzky-Golay derivatives (SG), and standard normal variate transformation (SNV). Positive results were obtained in PLS for La and ΣLREE using MSC pretreatment and in iSPA-PLS for Nd and Ce using raw data. The accuracy of the measurements was related to the REE concentration in soil; i.e., elements with higher concentrations tended to present more accurate results. The results obtained here aim to contribute to the development of NIR spectroscopy techniques as a tool for mapping the concentrations of REEs in topsoil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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