The pollution of forester and cultivated soils with heavy metals

The paper presents some aspects concerning pollution of forester and cultivated soils with heavy metals. There is presented with details the stage of collecting the soil samples from the sites placed near the most pollutant sources of Baia Mare, one of the most polluted cities from Romania. The samples were processed to be dissolved and analyzed by ICP-AES and AAS methods. The obtained concentrations are compared with Dutch Standards, Romanian Standards and with those values that are considered, by the researchers, normal, medium and high. The conclusions show that in the searched area, the levels of heavy metals exceed the Dutch and Romanian Standards.