Research Article

Dust Deposition and Associated Heavy Metal Contamination in the Neighborhood of a Cement Production Plant at Konongo, Ghana

Table 6

Principal component analysis of heavy metals in soil samples.

ParameterFactor 1Factor 2

Pb0.966
Zn0.9300.995
Cu0.8920.452
Cd0.8200.565
Cr−0.991
% variance68.78330.211
% cumulative68.78395.995

Bold loadings are statistically significant.