SIR 2004-5241: Remote Sensing for Environmental Site Screening and Watershed Evaluation in Utah Mine Lands—East Tintic Mountains, Oquirrh Mountains, and Tushar Mountains

frontispiece PDF file (2.9 MB)	Landsat 7 ETM+ true-color composite, Tintic mining district, Utah
1	Reflectance spectra of minerals associated with acid drainage
2 PDF file (5.9 MB)	Location map of East Tintic Mountains–Cedar Valley region
3 PDF (9.7 MB)	Location map of Oquirrh Mountains region
4 PDF file (7.7 MB)	Location map of Tushar Mountains/Marysvale region
5 PDF file (4.4 MB)	Location map of low-altitude AVIRIS data coverage over Tintic mining district
6 PDF file (4.8 MB)	True-color composite image generated from low-altitude AVIRIS flightline over Silver City area and Dragon mine in the Main Tintic subdistrict
7 PDF file (3.8 MB)	True-color composite image generated from low-altitude AVIRIS flightline over East Tintic subdistrict
8 PDF (2.6 MB)	False-color composite image generated from low-altitude AVIRIS flightline over Big Rock Candy Mountain area of the Marysvale volcanic field
9 PDF file (7.6 MB)	Geologic map of the Tintic mining district
10	Explanation for geologic map shown in figure 9
11 PDF file (1 MB)	Map of Main Tintic subdistrict showing mines and plan views of ore bodies
12	Map of replacement ore bodies, showing generalized compositional zonation
13 PDF file (6.1 MB)	Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in East Tintic Mountains and Tintic mining district, generated from high-altitude AVIRIS data
14 PDF file (6.1 MB)	Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in East Tintic Mountains and Tintic mining district, generated from high-altitude AVIRIS data
15 PDF file (3.7 MB)	Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in Silver City–Dragon mine area, Main Tintic subdistrict, generated from low-altitude AVIRIS data
16 PDF file (3.7 MB)	Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in Silver City–Dragon mine area, Main Tintic subdistrict, generated from low-altitude AVIRIS data
17 PDF file (3.3 MB)	Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in East Tintic subdistrict, generated from low-altitude AVIRIS data
18 PDF file (2.7 MB)	Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in East Tintic subdistrict, generated from low-altitude AVIRIS data
19 PDF file (1.8 MB)	Subset of map of iron-bearing minerals and water derived from analysis of high-altitude 1998 AVIRIS data
20 PDF file (740 KB)	Waste-rock piles with yellowish and yellow-green coatings of jarosite at the Swansea mine site near Silver City
21	True-color composite image of Dragon halloysite mine produced from low-altitude AVIRIS data
22	Detail of map of iron-bearing minerals at the Dragon mine produced from low-altitude AVIRIS data
23	Pyrite-bearing waste rock in the central section of the Dragon mine
24 PDF file (184 KB)	Spectral minitransect across waste-rock piles in the central section of the Dragon mine
25	Average low-altitude AVIRIS spectra from minitransect across waste-rock piles at the Dragon mine
26 PDF file (1.5 MB)	Landsat 7 ETM+ color composite (741/RGB) of East Tintic Mountains
27 PDF file (852 KB)	Subset of map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals derived from analysis of high-altitude 1998 AVIRIS data
28 PDF file (2.4 MB)	Overlays of faults and fractures on mineral maps derived from spectral analysis of high-altitude AVIRIS data
29	Laboratory spectra of jarosites associated with unmined argillic alteration and anthropogenic, pyrite-bearing mine waste from the Dragon mine
30	Generalized geologic map of Oquirrh Mountains
31 PDF file (2.5 MB)	Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in western Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 7 of high-altitude AVIRIS data
32 PDF file (2.1 MB)	Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in western Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 7 of high-altitude AVIRIS data
33 PDF file (2.7 MB)	Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in central Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 9 of high-altitude AVIRIS data
34 PDF file (2.4 MB)	Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in central Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 9 of high-altitude AVIRIS data
35 PDF file (2.8 MB)	Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in eastern Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 6 of high-altitude AVIRIS data
36 PDF file (3 MB)	Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in eastern Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 6 of high-altitude AVIRIS data
37 PDF file (2 MB)	Landsat 7 ETM+ continuous-tone map of mineral groups and vegetation centered on southern Oquirrh Mountains
38	Tailings in the Mercur Canyon outwash, Rush Valley
39	Tailings at the remains of the ore-processing mill in Manning Canyon, southeastern Oquirrh Mountains
40	Tailings extending down-gradient toward the southeast from the mill site in Manning Canyon, southeastern Oquirrh Mountains
41	Open-pit clay mine in Clay Canyon, southern Oquirrh Mountains
42	Pyrite-bearing tailings and other waste at the site of the Bauer Mill near Stockton
43 PDF file (152 KB)	Enlargement of map of iron-bearing minerals and water over the site of the Bauer Mill near Stockton
44 PDF file (148 KB)	Enlargement of map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals over the site of the Bauer Mill near Stockton
45 PDF file (276 KB)	Enlargement of map of iron-bearing minerals and water over the International Smelter and Refining site east of Tooele
46 PDF file (304 KB)	Enlargement of map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals over the International Smelter and Refining site east of Tooele
47 PDF file (3.6 MB)	Landsat 7 ETM+ continuous-tone map of mineral groups and vegetation centered on the Antelope Range several kilometers north of Marysvale
48 PDF file (2.2 MB)	Map of iron-bearing minerals in central Tushar Mountains, generated from run 11 of high-altitude AVIRIS data
49 PDF file (2.5 MB)	Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, mica, and hydrous silica minerals in central Tushar Mountains, generated from run 11 of high-altitude AVIRIS data
50 PDF file (2.4 MB)	Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in eastern Tushar Mountains and Antelope Range, generated from run 10 of high-altitude AVIRIS data
51 PDF file (3 MB)	Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, mica, and hydrous silica minerals in eastern Tushar Mountains and Antelope Range, generated from run 10 of high-altitude AVIRIS data
52 PDF file (5.6 MB)	Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in Big Rock Candy Mountain area of Marysvale volcanic field, produced from low-altitude AVIRIS data
53 PDF file (6.1 MB)	Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in Big Rock Candy Mountain area of Marysvale volcanic field, produced from the low-altitude AVIRIS data
54	View of area from which uranium was extracted, looking east toward Jungfrau Peak with goethite-coated waste-rock piles in foreground
55	Genetic model for replacement alunite deposits, Antelope Range, Marysvale volcanic field
56	Laboratory spectra of jarosite-bearing rocks formed by hypogene and supergene processes
57	Spectra of natrojarosite from Big Rock Candy Mountain and the reference library
58	View of Big Rock Candy Mountain looking south along Marysvale Canyon
59	View of Marysvale Canyon looking north from the top of Big Rock Candy Mountain
60	Hematite grain-size series
61	Goethite grain-size series

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Remote Sensing for Environmental Site Screening and Watershed Evaluation in Utah Mine Lands—East Tintic Mountains, Oquirrh Mountains, and Tushar Mountains

By Barnaby W. Rockwell, Robert R. McDougal, and Carol A. Gent

frontispiece

Landsat 7 ETM+ true-color composite, Tintic mining district, Utah

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Reflectance spectra of minerals associated with acid drainage

2

Location map of East Tintic Mountains–Cedar Valley region

3

Location map of Oquirrh Mountains region

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Location map of Tushar Mountains/Marysvale region

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Location map of low-altitude AVIRIS data coverage over Tintic mining district

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True-color composite image generated from low-altitude AVIRIS flightline over Silver City area and Dragon mine in the Main Tintic subdistrict

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True-color composite image generated from low-altitude AVIRIS flightline over East Tintic subdistrict

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False-color composite image generated from low-altitude AVIRIS flightline over Big Rock Candy Mountain area of the Marysvale volcanic field

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Geologic map of the Tintic mining district

10

Explanation for geologic map shown in figure 9

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Map of Main Tintic subdistrict showing mines and plan views of ore bodies

12

Map of replacement ore bodies, showing generalized compositional zonation

13

Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in East Tintic Mountains and Tintic mining district, generated from high-altitude AVIRIS data

14

Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in East Tintic Mountains and Tintic mining district, generated from high-altitude AVIRIS data

15

Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in Silver City–Dragon mine area, Main Tintic subdistrict, generated from low-altitude AVIRIS data

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Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in Silver City–Dragon mine area, Main Tintic subdistrict, generated from low-altitude AVIRIS data

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Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in East Tintic subdistrict, generated from low-altitude AVIRIS data

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Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in East Tintic subdistrict, generated from low-altitude AVIRIS data

19

Subset of map of iron-bearing minerals and water derived from analysis of high-altitude 1998 AVIRIS data

20

Waste-rock piles with yellowish and yellow-green coatings of jarosite at the Swansea mine site near Silver City

21

True-color composite image of Dragon halloysite mine produced from low-altitude AVIRIS data

22

Detail of map of iron-bearing minerals at the Dragon mine produced from low-altitude AVIRIS data

23

Pyrite-bearing waste rock in the central section of the Dragon mine

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Spectral minitransect across waste-rock piles in the central section of the Dragon mine

25

Average low-altitude AVIRIS spectra from minitransect across waste-rock piles at the Dragon mine

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Landsat 7 ETM+ color composite (741/RGB) of East Tintic Mountains

27

Subset of map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals derived from analysis of high-altitude 1998 AVIRIS data

28

Overlays of faults and fractures on mineral maps derived from spectral analysis of high-altitude AVIRIS data

29

Laboratory spectra of jarosites associated with unmined argillic alteration and anthropogenic, pyrite-bearing mine waste from the Dragon mine

30

Generalized geologic map of Oquirrh Mountains

31

Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in western Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 7 of high-altitude AVIRIS data

32

Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in western Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 7 of high-altitude AVIRIS data

33

Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in central Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 9 of high-altitude AVIRIS data

34

Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in central Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 9 of high-altitude AVIRIS data

35

Map of iron-bearing minerals and water in eastern Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 6 of high-altitude AVIRIS data

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Map of clay, carbonate, sulfate, and mica minerals in eastern Oquirrh Mountains, generated from run 6 of high-altitude AVIRIS data

37

Landsat 7 ETM+ continuous-tone map of mineral groups and vegetation centered on southern Oquirrh Mountains

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