T232 Mine Rock Piles and Pyritically Altered Areas: Their Slope Stability and Effect on Water Quality (Posters)

Wednesday, 19 October 2005
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  STRATIGRAPHY AND WEATHERING HISTORY OF THE GOATHILL NORTH MINE ROCK PILE, QUESTA MOLYBDENUM MINE, NEW MEXICO - SOME INITIAL RESULTS
  Erin H. Phillips, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and Virgil Lueth, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and Andrew Campbell, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and Virginia T. McLemore, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and Samuel Tachie-Menson, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM
  93270 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  INFILTRATION THROUGH A MINE-WASTE DUMP AND TRANSPORT OF METALS TO A NEARBY STREAM, CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, COLORADO
  David L. Fey, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Robert R. McDougal, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Laurie Wirt, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO
  93712 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  WHAT'S WEATHERING IN MINE WASTE? MINERAL DISSOLUTION AND FIELD LEACH STUDIES, LEADVILLE AND MONTEZUMA MINING DISTRICTS, COLORADO
  G.A. Desborough, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and S.F. Diehl, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and P.L. Hageman, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and K.S. Smith, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO
  95753 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  TRACE ELEMENTS IN PYRITE FROM SIX AREAS AFFECTED BY LARGE SCALE-PERVASIVE HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION: ACID ROCK DRAINAGE (ARD) AND SIGNATURES OF MINERALIZATION STYLE
  Alan E. Koenig, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, N/A and Dana J. Bove, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO
  95982 (Technical Sessions)