Water and Sediment Geochemistry Data from the Vicinity of Yellow Pine, Idaho, 2014-2015

Samples were collected at or near baseflow conditions. Water pH and specific conductance were measured in the field, with specific conductance also measured in the laboratory and calculated based on the ionic strength of samples based on laboratory analyses. Water samples were collected for laboratory analyses using a peristaltic pump with silicon tubing. Samples were filtered through a reusable plexiglass filter holder with nylon screws using 0.45µm polyethersulfone membranes that were rinsed with approximately 20mL of sample water prior to collection. Splits were also collected unfiltered to determine trace metal concentrations associated with suspended sediments. The filtration apparatus was rinsed with deionized...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: East Fork South Fork Salmon River, Idaho, Stibnite, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Valley County, All tags... abandoned mines and quarries, arsenic, mercury, methylmercury, mine drainage, mining water use, non-point source pollution, water chemistry, water quality, water sampling, Fewer tags

Water chemistry data from the Big Creek and Monumental Creek tributaries of the Lower Middle Fork Salmon River, Idaho, 2021

This USGS data release evaluates the impact of historical mining sites on water quality using samples collected in late July 2021 from Big Creek tributaries Coin Creek, Smith Creek, and Monumental Creek in Valley County, Idaho. These data were collected to support a fisheries mining impact assessment in the Middle Fork Salmon River. Specific conductance, pH, and stream temperature were measured in the field. Analyses include major cations and anions, alkalinity, trace metals, total mercury, and methylmercury.

Categories: Data; Tags: "Geochemistry", "Land Use Change", "Water Quality"], Beaver Creek, Big Creek, All tags... East Fork South Fork Salmon River, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Idaho, Idaho, MRP, Middle Fork Salmon, Mineral Resources Program, Monumental Creek, Salmon River, Smith Creek, Stibnite, Sugar Creek, Trap Creek, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Valley County, West Fork Monumental Creek, ["Environmental Health", abandoned mines and quarries, arsenic, mercury, methylmercury, mine drainage, mining water use, non-point source pollution, water chemistry, water quality, water sampling, Fewer tags

Geochemical reanalysis of rock and sediment samples from the Middle Fork and South Fork of the Salmon River collected in the mid-1960s through the early 1970s as part of the Idaho Primitive Area studies

This data release is a geochemical data set from the reanalysis of 23 rock and 85 sediment samples collected between 1966 and 1970 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for a series of studies investigating the mineral resources of the Idaho Primitive Area (Cater et al., 1973). The samples are from the upper Middle Fork Salmon River and the South Fork Salmon River, including the tributaries of East Fork of the South Fork and Porphyry Creek. The overall objective of this study is to characterize the regional impact of legacy mining for the Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness Area. In 1980 the U. S. Congress passed the Central Idaho Wilderness Act which combined the Idaho Primitive Area, the Salmon Rivers...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Automatic Creek, Beansnapper Creek, Bear Creek, Big Chief Creek, Big Cottonwood Creek, All tags... Cabin Creek, Cache Creek, Cane Creek, Canyon Creek, Challis Volcanic Group, Colorado, Colt Creek, Cornish Creek, Cultus Creek, Dewey Mine, East Fork Indian Creek, East Fork South Fork Salmon River, East Fork Springfield Creek, East Fork Trail Creek, Forty-five Creek, Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness Area, GGGSC, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Glass Mountain, Gunsight Formation, Idaho, Idaho Primitive Area, Indian Creek, Little Indian Creek, Little Loon Creek, Little Pistol Creek, Loon Creek, Luger Creek, MRP, Marble Creek, Mearney Creek, Middle Fork Indian Creek, Middle Fork Salmon River, Middle Fork terraces, Mineral Resources Program, North Fork Porphyry Creek, North Fork Wolf Fang Creek, Pistol Creek, Poee Creek, Porphyry Creek, Profile Creek, Pungo Creek, Rapid River, Ryan Creek, Salmon Rivers Breaks Primitive Area, Shrapnel Creek, Silver Plume, South Fork Salmon River, South Fork Wolf Fang Creek, Spring Creek, Springfield Creek, Sugar Creek, Sunnyside tuff, Tamarack Creek, Thirty-two Creek, Thunder Mountain Caldera, Trail Creek, Trigger Creek, Twenty-five Creek, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Upper Middle Fork Salmon River, West Fork Little Loon Creek, West Fork Trail Creek, Wolf Fang Creek, alluvium, arsenic, atomic absorption analysis, atomic emission spectroscopy, biotite, carbonate rock, chemical analysis, clastic rock, conglomerate, copper, critical minerals, foliation, geochemistry, geology, gneiss, granite, granodiorite, hornblende, hornblende-biotite, hydride generation, lapilli tuff, mass spectroscopy, metallic mineral resources, migmatite, mineral deposits, mineral resources, mineralization, muscovite sulfides, muscovite-biotite, nonmetallic mineral resources, pebble conglomerate, phyllite, porphyry, quartz, rhyolite, rock drainage, sandstone, tributary, tuff, volcanic rock, Fewer tags

Water, Soil, Rock, and Sediment Geochemistry Data from the Vicinity of Yellow Pine, Idaho, 2015-2017

Water and sediment samples were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at or near baseflow conditions from 2015-2017 in the East Fork South Fork Salmon River watershed near Yellow Pine, Valley County, Idaho. Soil, rock and tailings samples were collected in June 2015. Sampling focused on Cinnabar Creek, which flows through the Cinnabar mine site, and Sugar Creek, with additional sites selected to place the data into a larger watershed context. Grab samples were taken of the snowpack in January 2017. The water, soil, sediment, and rock samples were as described and the results are presented as separate water and solid data sets.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cinnabar Creek, East Fork South Fork Salmon River, Environmental Health, Geochemistry, Idaho, All tags... Sugar Creek, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Valley County, Water Quality, Yellow Pine Mine, abandoned mines and quarries, arsenic, chemical analysis, geochemistry, mercury, methylmercury, mine drainage, mineral deposits, mining water use, non-point source pollution, soil chemistry, unconsolidated deposits, water chemistry, water quality, water sampling, Fewer tags

Hg Concentrations of Fish Tissue Samples in the Vicinity of Yellow Pine, Idaho

The USGS examined mercury (Hg) concentrations in fish populations inhabiting impacted and reference streams as part of an investigation into the transport of trace metals in a watershed impacted by legacy mercury mining downstream from the Cinnabar mine site, Valley County, ID. Fish were sampled through an electrofishing survey utilizing a two-pass quantitative depletion approach where possible. Five reaches were selected in the Sugar Creek/Cinnabar Creek watershed, including two background reaches (ID020; ID021) with negligible mining impacts, Cinnabar Creek above the confluence with Sugar Creek (ID019), and two sites on Sugar Creek below the confluence with Cinnabar Creek (ID018 and ID010). Juvenile Bull trout...

Categories: Data; Tags: Abandoned Mines and Quarries, Aquatic Biology, Aquatic Biology, Atomic Absorption Analysis, Bull Trout, All tags... Cane Creek, Chinook Salmon, Cinnabar Creek, East Fork South Fork Salmon River, Ecology, Environmental Health, Freshwater Ecosystems, GGGSC, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Idaho, MRP, Mercury, Mercury, Mine Drainage, Mineral Resources Program, Mining Water Use, Nonpoint-source Pollution, Population Dynamics, Salmon River, Sculpin, Stibnite, Sugar Creek, Toxic metals, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Valley County, Water Chemistry, Water Quality, Water Quality, Water Resources, Water Sampling, Wildlife Biology, Yellow Pine, Fewer tags