OFR 97-492: Iron Mountain Quadrangle NURE HSSR Study
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[See History of NURE HSSR Program for a summary of the entire program.]
ORGDP: Iron Mountain Quadrangle
A total of 369 stream-sediment, 479 ground-water, and 389 surface-water samples were collected from the Iron Mountain quadrangle as part of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (ORGDP) Iron Mountain Quadrangle NURE Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) study. The stream-sediment and water sampling was conducted by ORGDP personnel between August and November of 1977. These samples were analyzed by the ORGDP for uranium and other elements. The analytical data were released as the Iron Mountain Quadrangle NURE HSSR study GJBX-97(78) report.
Summary Tables
Because of the various analytical methods used, some ORGDP samples may have been analyzed once, twice, or not at all. The following table summarizes the analysis of Iron Mountain quadrangle samples.
Laboratory Analysis | Sediments | Waters |
---|---|---|
ORGDP | 368 | 865 |
Second ORGDP Analysis | 304 | 0 |
None | 1 | 3 |
Total Samples | 369 | 868 |
Total Data Records | 673 | 868 |
The following is a listing of the sample types collected for the Iron Mountain quadrangle study.
Sediment Sample Type | Number of Samples | Water Sample Type | Number of Samples |
---|---|---|---|
Wet Streams | 366 | Streams | 389 |
Dry Streams | 3 | Wells | 478 |
Springs | 1 | ||
Total Sediments | 369 | Total Waters | 868 |
These Iron Mountain quadrangle samples were analyzed by one or more of the following methods:
Sediment Samples
Water Samples
The Iron Mountain quadrangle sediment and water data consist of reformatted records from the Iron Mountain Quadrangle NURE HSSR study GJBX-97(78) report. The following problems were found and addressed during the comparison and reformatting stages for these data:
Sediment Records
Water Records
The NURE HSSR data are now available online in two databases: The sediment database (also includes data for soils and some rocks) at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/nure/sediment/ and the water database at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/nure/water/. From these two web sites, NURE HSSR data can be selected, examined, summarized, and downloaded by political boundaries (State and County), by quadrangle (1:250,000-scale, 1:100,000-scale, and 1:63,360-scale for Alaska or 1:24,000-scale for the Lower 48 States), and by hydrologic unit (drainage region, subregion, river basin, or sub-basin). Selected data can be downloaded as a dBase file, a shapefile, an HTML table, or ASCII text (tab- or comma-delimited).
Iron Mountain Quadrangle Sediment Data - 673 records
Iron Mountain Quadrangle Water Data - 868 records
The water samples were reportedly collected in the field without any filtering or acidification. (See the SAMPTYP coding explanation in the On-Line Manual for USGS-Reformatted NURE HSSR Data Files for descriptions of different Sample Types). However, the samples were filtered later in the laboratory through a 0.45 micron membrane filter before analysis. Therefore, the samples were not true "untreated water" samples and the analytical data may not be directly comparable for other quadrangle water samples of the same SAMPTYP when collected by a different laboratory. Since this was the standard procedure for Oak Ridge, water data from other Oak Ridge quadrangles should be comparable.
Latitude-longitude coordinates were reported in the original data files, as decimal degrees, to only 3 decimal places. Therefore, the precision of these coordinates is limited to +/- 0.001 degrees or +/- 3.6 seconds. This translates to a minimum precision of +/- 365 feet (111 m) for latitude values and between +/- 259 feet (79 m) to +/- 235 feet (72 m) for longitude values (calculated at latitudes of 45° and 50°N, respectively.)
One wet stream-sediment sample and three stream-water samples collected in the Iron Mountain quadrangle were not analyzed by any method.
Uranium Anomaly Reports
Two brief follow-up investigations were conducted by the Bendix Field Engineering Corporation to investigate the anomalies found within the Goodman-Dunbar Area and the McCaslin Syncline of northeastern Wisconsin. These areas are discussed in separate chapters in the GJBX-222(82) report on uranium anomalies. Only a summary of the radiometric surveys and gamma spectrometry data without any additional geochemical data is found in these reports. The results of these investigations suggest that these areas do not have potential for the economic occurrence of uranium mineralization.
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