Physicochemical Characterisation of Water and Sediment of the Semimechanized Artisanal Gold Mining Environment of the Béké Locality

Table 1

Results of the physical parameters of the analyzed water samples.

Parameters	Samples									WHO standards
	W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6	W7	W8	W9
pH	6.07	5.38	5.34	5.07	6.34	5.65	5.58	5.11	5.56	6.5 < pH < 8.5
Conductivity (μs/cm)	35	32.5	17.35	35.87	43.52	41.02	26.48	23.98	8.83	1055 μs/cm
Turbidity (NTU)	1710	1020	4	64.02	1770.0	1080.02	1649.98	959.98	124.02	5 NTU