| Unaffected soils |
| Podzol | hornblende, hyperstene, magnetite, garnet | Susceptibility of different minerals to weathering | Matelski and Turk (1947) |
| Acid forest soil profiles (pH 4–5), galciofluvial substrate | apatite, titanite, hornblende, garnet, epidote, zircon | Documenting weathering trends | Lång (2000) |
| Pre-tsunami soils | pyroxene and amphibole group, opaque minerals | Soil erosion, provenance of detrital material | Jagodziński et al. (2012) |
| Entisols and Aridisols | non-opaque heavy minerals (zircon, tourmaline, rutile, garnet, sillimanite, and andalusite) | Provenance of detrital material | Sulieman et al. (2015) |
| Podzol | apatite, amphibole, epidote, hematite, hornblende, garnet, monazite, olivine, pyrite, pyroxene, titanite, zircon, rutile, and ilmenite | Determine if there is a significant contribution from these minerals to the surface geochemical signature, particularly radiogenic Pb of the soils | Carlson (2016) |
| Unspecified | zircon, magnetite, ilmenite, rutile and monazite | Mineral contribution to elevated contents of some elements in soils in ship-breaking yards | Khan et al. (2019) |
| Initial soils | transparent heavy-minerals | Documenting weathering patterns and pedogenetic processes and the addition of allochthonous material | Tangari et al. (2021) |
| Terra rosa represented by red palaeosol, red polygenetic soil, and two pedosedimentary complexes | epidote and amphibole groups | The provenance of initial soil material (origin of the parent material) | Razum et al. (2023) |
| Soils affected by mining and smelting |
| The rhizosphere of industrial soils near Zn–Pb mines and metallurgical plants (Poland) | Pb, Cd, Zn carbonates, As-Pb sulphosalts, polymineralic spherules | Identification of processes in the rhizosphere leading to alteration and formation of secondary metal-rich phases, the importance of plant-root exudation solutions is stressed | Cabała, Teper (2007) |
| Industrial soils near mining and smelting areas | Slag particles >1 mm in diameter | Establishing slag-derived dust as a main carrier of trace elements in studied soils | Chopin and Alloway (2007) |
| Soils close to major smelter centers at Coppercliff, Coniston, and Falconbridge in the Sudbury area, Canada | Spherical particles composed of magnetite, hematite, Fe-silicates, sulfides, spinels, delafossite, and cuprite or tenorite | Origin and potential alteration (e.g. dissolution rates and particle-soil interaction) of spherical particles | Lanteigne et al. (2012) |
| Soil adjacent to mining areas | Particulate matter such as Fe silicates, spinels, sulfides, NiO, and their weathering products | Distribution of metals and metalloids in particulate matter, their formation, weathering, and mobility in soils | Lanteigne et al. (2014) |
| Soils within the protection zone of copper smelter (Poland) | Diverse particles associated with mining and smelting | Detecting weathering reactions in the heavy particles, implications for metal mobility | Tyszka et al. (2016) |
| Four different forest and grassland soils (site for the long-term experiment) | Flue dust composed predominately of arsenolite As2O3 | Transformation of As-rich (>50 wt% As) copper smelter dust in the soil to understand As mobility and pollution risks | Jarošíková et al. (2018) |
| Soils developed on the slag heap after Zn–Pb smelting (Poland) | Diverse particles associated with Zn–Pb smelting | Estimating modal proportions of primary to secondary phases using automated electron microscopy | Pietranik et al. (2018) |
| Topsoils from hot semi-dry area (Namibia) | Diverse particles associated with mining and smelting | Automated SEM used to understand the fate/binding of metal (loids) in soils | Tuhý et al. (2020) |
| Biomass-rich savanna soils, semi-arid (Namibia) | Ferric oxides, arsenolite, metal arsenates, As apatite, enargite | Understanding temperatures of mineralogical transformations and potentially toxic elements remobilization under wildfire conditions (laboratory combustion experiment) | Tuhý et al. (2021) |
| Soils affected by Zn mining (Lanping Pb–Zn mine, China) | Cadmium-bearing sphalerite and smithsonite | Mobility and behavior of Cd and Zn derived from smithsonite and sphalerite and their transport mechanisms in soils | Li et al. (2022) |
