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A method for treating a quantity of soil contaminated with lead, copper or mercury includes mixing the contaminated soil with an acid, chloride solution, to dissolve the contaminants in the chloride solution. Soil, essentially free of the contaminants, is separated from contaminant-containing chloride solution. Contaminants are precipitated from the contaminant-containing chloride solution by addition of one or more sulfides. Precipitated contaminants are separated from the remaining solution. The remaining solution may treated by adding chloride, acid, ORP adjusting agents and used to treat an additional quantity of soil.
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