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Field and Laboratory data of pipe scale forming in acid mine drainage pipelines at Iron Mountain and Leviathan Mines, California

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2012-08-01
End Date
2015-08-01

Citation

Campbell, K.M., Alpers, C.N., and Nordstrom, D.K., 2019, Field and Laboratory data of pipe scale forming in acid mine drainage pipelines at Iron Mountain and Leviathan Mines, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9DSRLDZ.

Summary

Pipelines carrying acid mine drainage at Iron Mountain and Leviathan Mines (CA, USA) develop pipe scale, a precipitate that forms inside the pipelines. The U.S. Geological Survey is studying the composition of the pipe scale and the acid mine drainage water flowing through the pipeline through field samples and laboratory experimentation. This data release provides the data from the studies of the pipelines from 2012-2015 as a data compendium to a journal publication, and includes (1) water chemistry of the acid mine drainage; (2) mineralogy of pipe scale (X-ray diffraction and chemical extractions); and (3) laboratory experiment results.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Kate M Campbell
Originator :
Kate M Campbell, Charles N Alpers, D Kirk Nordstrom
Metadata Contact :
Kate M Campbell
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals

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IMM_LM_Datarelease_techrev_MDrev.xml
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View 		59.36 KB application/fgdc+xml
IMM scale photo.png
“Photo of pipe scale at Iron Mountain Mine” 		thumbnail 378.77 KB image/png
Chemical extractions of scale.csv 1.63 KB text/csv
Iron_ox_experiments.csv 5.25 KB text/csv
Qual_XRD.csv 131.83 KB text/csv
Quant_XRD.csv 84.49 KB text/csv
Water Chemistry.csv 7.88 KB text/csv

Purpose

Understanding fundamental biogeochemical processes controlling pipe scale formation is key to informing remediation or site management options to reduce the impact of scaling at mine sites. This study has characterized mineralogy and composition of pipe scale, as well as water chemistry and seasonality of acid mine drainage at two mine sites in California which regularly experience pipe scaling (Iron Mountain Mine and Leviathan Mine). This study also characterized the biological and abiotic oxidation of ferrous iron in the laboratory and the effect of mixing different source waters on precipitation reactions.
Photo of pipe scale at Iron Mountain Mine
Photo of pipe scale at Iron Mountain Mine

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9DSRLDZ

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