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Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Geochemical Data: Silver Island and Crater Island Mining Districts, UT

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2021-11-03
End Date
2022-10-22

Citation

DiViesti, D.N., Hess, M.D., and Hynek, S.A., 2024, Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Geochemical Data: Silver Island and Crater Island Mining Districts, UT: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9NPQS7I.

Summary

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) collected a total of 179 samples of surficial sediment from abandoned mine wastepiles, ephemeral channels, nearby outcrops, and background areas representative of the undisturbed lithology within the Silver Island and Crater Island mining districts (Krahulec, 2018).The samples were sieved to obtain the less than 177 micron fraction. Geochemical analyses were completed through a third-party contract by SGS Laboratories. Samples were analyzed for 49 major, minor, and trace elements using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES) and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) methods (Ag, Al, As, Ba, Be, Bi, Ca, Cd, Ce, Co, Cr, Cs, Cu, Fe, Ga, Hf, In, K, La, [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Destry N DiViesti
Originator :
Destry N DiViesti, Michael D Hess, Scott A Hynek
Metadata Contact :
Destry N DiViesti
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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20220623_160320.jpg
“Wastepiles west of Jenkins Peak. 06/23/2022”
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AML_Silver_Islands_Data_Dictionary.csv
“Data Dictionary”
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AML_Silver_Islands_Geochemistry.csv
“Geochemistry”
95.4 KB text/csv

Purpose

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

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