https://sloap.org/journal/index.php/ijcms <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>IJCMS </strong>is published in English and it is open to authors around the world regardless of the nationality. The issued frequency is annual or one issue per year publication.<br>ISSN 2632-9468</p> SLOAP en-US International journal of chemical & material sciences 2632-9468 <p>Articles published in the International Journal of Chemical &amp; Material Sciences (<strong>IJCMS</strong>) are available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</a>). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant <strong>IJCMS&nbsp;</strong>right of first publication under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles in this journal, and to use them for any other lawful purpose.</p> <p>Articles published in <strong>IJCMS&nbsp;</strong>can be copied, communicated and shared in their published form for non-commercial purposes provided full attribution is given to the author and the journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (<em>e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book</em>), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.</p> https://sloap.org/journal/index.php/ijcms/article/view/2263 <p>Mempawah River Basin (DAS) is a water resource for the people of Mempawah and Landak Regencies. The community uses the Mempawah River as the main medium for agricultural needs, plantations, and the rearing of fish for consumption. Awareness of health that comes from water with its various uses, there has been consumer anxiety when consuming air along with agricultural and fishery products that are relevant to water use in the Mempawah watershed. This phenomenon occurs because the water resources of this watershed area have been polluted by mercury as a result of unlicensed gold mining activities in its spatial extent. This research was conducted to analyze the level of mercury pollution in the river basin, due to illegal gold mining activities. The method applied was purposive sampling, through 29 water sample points located in the upstream, middle and downstream. The sample results were explained using the Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) tool. Then, from a spatial perspective, the location of PETI activities was analyzed spatially using Spatial Dynamic Modeling Geographical Information System software with kriging interpolation techniques, to predict the distribution of mercury pollution. The results of the research show that in the middle part of the Mempawah watershed, there is mercury pollution from 0.0023mg/lt to 0.0083 mg/l and has exceeded the threshold determined by PP No. 22 of 2021. The upstream and downstream parts of the Mempawah watershed are not polluted by mercury, because the PETI activity point is only in the middle part of the Mempawah watershed. These findings provide suggestions that the allocation of Mempawah River water as the sole raw material for corporate entities and its use for growing fish communities should be more closely monitored, to avoid danger, due to the chain of heavy metal contamination in the form of Mercury.</p> Tri Bayu Aji Yudi Setiawan Zaenal Abidin Slamet Tarno Copyright (c) 2024 International journal of chemical & material sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 2024-04-07 2024-04-07 7 1 1 10 10.21744/ijcms.v7n1.2263