Front Matter (11.2 MB)—incudes a Volume Contents, which is defined below:

• A. Summary and conclusions from investigation of the effects of historical mining in the Boulder River watershed, Jefferson County, Montana (114 KB)
  By U.S. Geological Survey

• B. The Boulder River watershed study, Jefferson County, Montana (185 KB)
  By Stanley E. Church, David A. Nimick, Susan E. Finger, and J. Michael O’Neill

• C. Synthesis of water, sediment, and biological data using hazard quotients to assess ecosystem health (172 KB)
  By Susan E. Finger, Aïda M. Farag, David A. Nimick, Stanley E. Church, and Tracy C. Sole

• D. Watershed-Scale Characterization and Investigation of Processes Responsible for Environmental Effects of Historical Mining

  • D1. Geologic framework (373 KB)
    By J. Michael O’Neill, Karen Lund, Bradley S. Van Gosen, George A. Desborough, Tracy C. Sole, and Ed H. DeWitt

  • D2. Geophysical characterization of geologic features with environmental implications from airborne magnetic and apparent resistivity data (267 KB)
    By Anne E. McCafferty, Bradley S. Van Gosen, Bruce D. Smith, and Tracy C. Sole

  • D3. Mine inventory (68 KB)
    By E. Paul Martin

  • D4. Metal leaching in mine-waste materials and two schemes for classification of potential environmental effects of mine-waste piles (138 KB)
    By David L. Fey and George A. Desborough

  • D5. Trace elements in water in streams affected by historical mining (194 KB)
    By David A. Nimick and Thomas E. Cleasby

  • D6. Quantification of metal loading by tracer injection and synoptic sampling, 1997–98 (432 KB)
    By Briant A. Kimball, Robert L. Runkel, Thomas E. Cleasby, and David A. Nimick

  • D7. Short-term variation of trace-element concentrations during base flow and rainfall runoff in small basins, August 1999 (135 KB)
    By John H. Lambing, David A. Nimick, and Thomas E. Cleasby

  • D8. Trace elements and lead isotopes in streambed sediment in streams affected by historical mining (417 KB)
    By Stanley E. Church, Daniel M. Unruh, David L. Fey, and Tracy C. Sole

  • D9. Hydrogeology of the Boulder River watershed study area and examination of the regional ground-water flow system using interpreted fracture mapping from remote sensing data (154 KB)
    By Robert R. McDougal, M.R. Cannon, Bruce D. Smith, and David A. Ruppert

  • D10. Aquatic health and exposure pathways of trace elements (376 KB)
    By Aïda M. Farag, David A. Nimick, Briant A. Kimball, Stanley E. Church, Don Skaar, William G. Brumbaugh, Christer Hogstrand, and Elizabeth MacConnell

• E. Case Studies of Mining Sites within the Boulder River Watershed Study Area

  • E1. Understanding trace-element sources and transport to upper Basin Creek in the vicinity of the Buckeye and Enterprise mines (1.1 MB)
    By M.R. Cannon, Stanley E. Church, David L. Fey, Robert R. McDougal, Bruce D. Smith, and David A. Nimick

  • E2. Monitoring remediation—Have mine-waste and mill-tailings removal and flood-plain restoration been successful in the High Ore Creek valley? (174 KB)
    By Sharon L. Gelinas and Robert Tupling

  • E3. Geologic, geophysical, and seismic characterization of the Luttrell pit as a mine-waste repository (179 KB)
    By Bruce D. Smith, Robert R. McDougal, and Karen Lund

• F. Evaluating the success of remediation in the Boulder River watershed (107 KB)
  By Susan E. Finger, Stanley E. Church, and David A. Nimick

• G. Digital databases and CD-ROM for the Boulder River watershed (279 KB)
  By Carl L. Rich, David W. Litke, Matthew Granitto, Richard T. Pelltier, and Tracy C. Sole

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