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Kongyu Gold Mining Area is located in the northern margin of the Sichuan-Yunnan tectonic belt. This area has gone through two large tectonic cycles of Mesoproterozoic, Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic. The strata are accompanied by a large number of tensile cracks, shear cracks and microfissures. The voidage, permeability and transitional effect of the rock are increased, and the transformation between surface water and groundwater is enhanced. On the other hand, tectonic movement controls the distributions and allocations of elements in the earth's crust, resulting in directional geochemical changes in crustal materials and rules. Driven by the tectonic force, the elements are reallocated. The ion content and ion compressibility of those elements increase and decrease inversely. The manifestations of rocks and minerals under directional pressure can be characterized by the flow and puncture of plastic minerals and the fragmentation of hard and brittle minerals. In the process of leaching, the pollutant elements precipitate from the deposits of different granular ores, and most are absorbed by the soil column; thus, the mass fraction of polluting elements in the soil column obviously increases. The variability is the largest when the leachate passes through the fine ore. The rate of change of the element mass fraction from high to low is Ni, Zn, Cu, Cd, Pb, As and Cr. A small part migrated from the soil column to the collection fluid, and the leaching effect is related to the rate of change of soil mass fraction, the ion radius of elements and the compressibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]