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Bohdan Kříbek is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant attention to pollution, mechanical engineering, building and construction, biomedical engineering, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their work extensively addresses topics related to heavy metals in the environment, mining and resource management, metal extraction and bioleaching, extraction and separation processes, mine drainage and remediation techniques, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and coal and its by-products.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bohdan Kříbek include Martin Mihaljevič, Vojtěch Ettler, Aleš Vaněk, Ondra Šráček, and Vít Penížek.

Common publication venues for Bohdan Kříbek's research are:

  • Journal of Geochemical Exploration
  • Chemosphere
  • Minerals
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Bohdan Kříbek are:

  • Impact of Mining and Ore Processing on Soil, Drainage and Vegetation in the Zambian Copperbelt Mining Districts: A Review, 2023, Minerals
  • Slag dusts from Kabwe (Zambia): Contaminant mineralogy and oral bioaccessibility, 2020, Chemosphere
  • Cobalt-bearing copper slags from Luanshya (Zambian Copperbelt): Mineralogy, geochemistry, and potential recovery of critical metals, 2022, Journal of Geochemical Exploration
  • Gallium and germanium extraction and potential recovery from metallurgical slags, 2022, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Depicting the historical pollution in a Pb-Zn mining/smelting site in Kabwe (Zambia) using tree rings, 2021, Journal of African Earth Sciences

Bohdan Kříbek's body of work often explores environmental contamination resulting from mining practices, as well as recovery methods for critical and valuable metals from industrial by-products. Their research integrates geological, chemical, and engineering approaches to address challenges in resource management and environmental remediation.

Best Publications

  • Mineralogy and environmental stability of slags from the Tsumeb smelter, Namibia

    Vojtěch Ettler;Zdenek Johan;Bohdan Kříbek;Ondřej Šebek

  • Discrimination of lithogenic and anthropogenic sources of metals and sulphur in soils of the central-northern part of the Zambian Copperbelt Mining District: A topsoil vs. subsurface soil concept

    Bohdan Kříbek;Vladimír Majer;František Veselovský;Imasiku Nyambe

  • Differences in the bioaccessibility of metals/metalloids in soils from mining and smelting areas (Copperbelt, Zambia)

    Vojtěch Ettler;Bohdan Kříbek;Vladimír Majer;Ilja Knésl

  • Tracing the spatial distribution and mobility of metal/metalloid contaminants in Oxisols in the vicinity of the Nkana copper smelter, Copperbelt province, Zambia

    Vojtěch Ettler;Martin Mihaljevič;Bohdan Kříbek;Vladimír Majer

  • Organic geochemistry and petrology of barren and Mo-Ni-PGE mineralized marine black shales of the Lower Cambrian Niutitang Formation (South China)

    Bohdan Kříbek;Ivana Sýkorová;Jan Pašava;Vladimír Machovič

  • Geochemistry of Miocene lacustrine sediments from the Sokolov Coal Basin (Czech Republic)

    Bohdan Křı́bek;Mojmı́r Strnad;Zbyněk Boháček;Ivana Sýkorová

  • Primary and secondary phases in copper-cobalt smelting slags from the Copperbelt Province, Zambia

    M. Vítková;V. Ettler;Z. Johan;B. Kříbek

  • Mining-related contamination of surface water and sediments of the Kafue River drainage system in the Copperbelt district, Zambia: An example of a high neutralization capacity system

    Ondra Sracek;Bohdan Kříbek;Martin Mihaljevič;Vladimír Majer

  • The pH-dependent leaching behavior of slags from various stages of a copper smelting process: Environmental implications

    Alice Jarošíková;Vojtěch Ettler;Martin Mihaljevič;Bohdan Kříbek

  • Geochemistry and mineralogy of Cu and Co in mine tailings at the Copperbelt, Zambia.

    O. Sracek;M. Mihaljevič;B. Kříbek;V. Majer

  • Multiple Sources of Metals of Mineralization in Lower Cambrian Black Shales of South China: Evidence from Geochemical and Petrographic Study

    Jan Pašava;Bohdan Kříbek;Anna Vymazalová;Ivana Sýkorová

  • The Rožná uranium deposit (Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic): shear zone-hosted, late Variscan and post-Variscan hydrothermal mineralization

    Bohdan Kříbek;Karel Žák;Petr Dobeš;Jaromír Leichmann

  • Leaching of metals from copper smelter flue dust (Mufulira, Zambian Copperbelt)

    Martina Vítková;Vojtěch Ettler;Jiri Hyks;Thomas Astrup

  • Lead Isotopic and Metallic Pollution Record in Tree Rings from the Copperbelt Mining–Smelting Area, Zambia

    Martin Mihaljevič;Vojtěch Ettler;Ondřej Šebek;Ondra Sracek

  • Bitumens in the late Variscan hydrothermal vein-type uranium deposit of Pribram, Czech Republic; sources, radiation-induced alteration, and relation to mineralization

    Bohdan Kribek;Karel Zak;Jorge E. Spangenberg;Jan Jehlicka

  • Geochemistry and origin of tin–polymetallic sulfide deposits hosted by the Devonian black shale series near Dachang, Guangxi, China

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  • Soil contamination near the Kabwe Pb-Zn smelter in Zambia: Environmental impacts and remediation measures proposal

    Bohdan Kříbek;Imasiku Nyambe;Vladimír Majer;Ilja Knésl

  • The association of poorly ordered graphite, coke and bitumens in greenschist facies rocks of the Poniklá Group, Lugicum, Czech Republic: the result of graphitization of various types of carbonaceous matter

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  • Carbon and oxygen isotope record across Pridoli to Givetian stage boundaries in the Barrandian basin (Czech Republic)

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  • Graphitization of organic matter and fluid‐deposited graphite in Palaeoproterozoic (Birimian) black shales of the Kaya‐Goren greenstone belt (Burkina Faso, West Africa)

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  • Oral bioaccessibility of metal(loid)s in dust materials from mining areas of northern Namibia.

    Vojtěch Ettler;Markéta Cihlová;Alice Jarošíková;Martin Mihaljevič

  • Characterization of Fe-Mn concentric nodules from Luvisol irrigated by mine water in a semi-arid agricultural area

    Vojtěch Ettler;Martin Chren;Martin Mihaljevič;Petr Drahota

  • Surprisingly contrasting metal distribution and fractionation patterns in copper smelter-affected tropical soils in forested and grassland areas (Mufulira, Zambian Copperbelt).

    Vojtěch Ettler;Ladislav Konečný;Lucie Kovářová;Martin Mihaljevič

  • Concentrations of arsenic, copper, cobalt, lead and zinc in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) growing on uncontaminated and contaminated soils of the Zambian Copperbelt

    B. Kříbek;V. Majer;I. Knésl;I. Nyambe

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Mihaljevič
Martin Mihaljevič Charles University
Vojtěch Ettler
Vojtěch Ettler Charles University
Ondra Sracek
Ondra Sracek Palacký University, Olomouc
Vladimír Majer
Vladimír Majer Technical University of Liberec
Aleš Vaněk
Aleš Vaněk Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Vít Penížek
Vít Penížek Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Jiří Čejka
Jiří Čejka Charles University
Miroslav Svoboda
Miroslav Svoboda Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Vladislav Chrastný
Vladislav Chrastný Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Janeck J. Scott-Fordsmand
Janeck J. Scott-Fordsmand Aarhus University

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