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Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Geochemical Data: Star District, Utah

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
2014
Time Period
2015

Citation

Gold, B.L., Hess, M.D., Hynek, S.A., and Marston, T.M., 2019, Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Geochemical Data: Star District, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BALZ5B.

Summary

The Star District study area is located in the Star Mountain Range, approximately 50 miles north of Cedar City, Utah. The Star Range was historically mined for lead and silver beginning in the 1870s (Krahulec, 2018). The Star District samples can be spatially clustered into two groups: the first consists of samples closest to Topache Peak and the second consists of samples closest to Picacho Peak. From November to December, 2014 and June to July, 2015, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) collected a total of 141 samples from abandoned mine wastepiles, channel sediments downslope of wastepiles, and background areas. These samples were sieved to obtain the less than 177 micron fraction, which was homogenized and subjected to a [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Brittany L Gold, Jaime S Azain
Process Contact :
Zachary C Bueghly
Originator :
Brittany L Gold, Michael D Hess, Scott A Hynek, Thomas M Marston
Metadata Contact :
Brittany L Gold, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Region
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Utah Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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AML_Geochem_StarDistrict_UT_Metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		53.08 KB application/fgdc+xml
AML_Geochem_StarDisctrict_UT.csv 35.1 KB text/csv
AML_Geochem_StarDistrict_UT_shp.zip 28.17 KB application/zip
AML_Geochem_StarDistrict_UT_DataDictionary.csv 23.18 KB text/csv

Purpose

Data were collected to analyze the elemental composition of sediment in abandoned wastepiles. The analysis of these wastepiles is released to the public through this dataset.

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