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TITLE: Green_Slime SM93-14A Summitv DESCRIPT
DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: Man Made
SAMPLE_ID: SM93-14A
MATERIAL_TYPE: Precipitate from Acid Waste Water Treatment
MATERIAL: Mineral mixture
FORMULA: Unknown
FORMULA_HTML: Unknown
COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Summitville mine area, edge of pond
ORIGINAL_DONOR: Gregg Swayze and Trude King
CURRENT_SAMPLE_LOCATION: U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Spectroscopy Lab
ULTIMATE_SAMPLE_LOCATION: U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Spectroscopy Lab
SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:
Sample was collected from the edge of a pond on the tailings pile at the Summitville Mine during the summer of 1993. The sample was of a waste product generated during water de-acidification of mine waste water. The sample was transported and dumped on the tailings pile for containment.
END_SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION.
XRD_ANALYSIS:
Quartz(minor) other phases amorphous and uncertain.
see:
END_XRD_ANALYSIS.
COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: EM(WDS) # XRF, EM(WDS), ICP(Trace), WChem
COMPOSITION_TRACE: None
COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION:
END_COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION.
MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION:
avg. grain size = 265µm
END_MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION.
SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION:
Spectrum has a peak in reflectance at 0.549 microns characteristic of a copper-bearing rock. A broad asymmetric absorption is centered at 0.7437 microns.
END_SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION.
SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1a2_3_4_ # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns
LIB_SPECTRA_HED: | where | Wave Range | Av_Rs_Pwr | Comment |
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LIB_SPECTRA: | splib05a r 10041 | 0.2-3.0µm | 200 | g.s.= |
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