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Determining the Toxicity Potential of Mine-Waste Piles

Notes from a workshop presented by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and the Rocky Mountain Regional Hazardous Substance Research Center, Colorado State University and the Colorado School of Mines

By Kathleen S. Smith1, Thomas R. Wildeman2, LaDonna M. Choate1, Sharon F. Diehl1, David L. Fey1, Philip L. Hageman1, James F. Ranville2, Rosalia Rojas3, and Bruce D. Smith1

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-210

Version 1.0

 

1 U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado
2 Rocky Mountain Regional Hazardous Substance Research Center and the Colorado School of Mines
3 Rocky Mountain Regional Hazardous Substance Research Center and Colorado State University

 

This report consists of lectures from a workshop presented at the Joint Conference of the Billings Land Reclamation Symposium and the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation convened in Billings, Montana, June 1, 2003. The title of the workshop was Assessing the Toxicity Potential of Mine-Waste Piles. Slide-based presentations are included on the following topics.
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Contents (127 KB)
I.
Introduction

Scope (615 KB)

Fundamentals (473 KB)

Overview (710 KB)
II.
Bioaccessibility (3.42 MB)
III.
Physical characterization

Physical characterization (1.17 MB)

Transport (1.63 MB)
IV.
Geology (5.79 MB)
V.
Geophysics (6.23 MB)
VI.
Sampling (611 KB)
VII.
Chemical analysis (159 KB)
VIII.
Leaching Tests

Leaching studies (785 KB)

Chemical criteria (1.16 MB)
IX.
Acid-Base Accounting (1.51 MB)
X.
Decision tree (1.82 MB)
References (435 KB)

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