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Laboratory measurements of electrical properties of composite mine dump samples from Colorado and New Mexico

Open-File Report 2001-158
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr01158

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Abstract

Individual mine waste samples were collected and combined to form one composite sample at each of eight mine dump sites in Colorado and New Mexico. The samples were air-dried and sieved to determine the geochemical composition of their <2mm size fraction. Splits of the samples were then rehydrated and their electrical properties were measured in the US Geological Survey Petrophysical Laboratory, Denver, Colorado (PetLab). The PetLab measurements were done twice: in 1999, using convenient amounts of rehydration water ranging from 5% to 8%; and in 2000, using carefully controlled rehydrations to 5% and 10% water. This report gives geochemical analyses of the <2mm size fraction of the composite samples (Appendix A), PetLab graphs of the 1999 measurements (Appendix B), Petlab graphs of the 2000 measurements (Appendix C), and Cole-Cole models of the PetLab data from the 2000 measurements (Appendix D).

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Anderson, A.L., Campbell, D.L., Beanland, S., 2001, Laboratory measurements of electrical properties of composite mine dump samples from Colorado and New Mexico (Version 1.0): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2001-158, 55 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr01158.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Laboratory measurements of electrical properties of composite mine dump samples from Colorado and New Mexico
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2001-158
DOI 10.3133/ofr01158
Edition Version 1.0
Year Published 2001
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description 55 p.
Country United States
State Colorado
City Leadville, Silverton
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