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Pre-mining environmental baseline characterization of the Aynak copper deposit: 2020 field season

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2020
End Date
2020

Citation

Green, C.J., Seal, R.R., II, Hoppe, D.A., Ahmadi, M.I., and Technical Staff of the Environmental Geology Directorate of the Afghanistan Geological Survey, 2024, Pre-mining environmental baseline characterization of the Aynak copper deposit: 2020 field season: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KIYQFY.

Summary

These data include geochemical analyses of rock, mine waste, and water samples collected from the Aynak copper deposit, Logar Province, Afghanistan in 2020.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Carlin J Green
Originator :
Carlin J Green, Robert R Seal II, Darryl A Hoppe, Mohammad Idrees Ahmadi, Technical Staff of the Environmental Geology Directorate of the Afghanistan Geological Survey
Metadata Contact :
Carlin J Green
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Aynak_FS2020_metadata.xml
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Aynak_sample_data_FS2020.xlsx 127.52 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

Purpose

These data were obtained to provide insights into pre-mining environmental baseline characteristics at the Aynak copper deposit. These data will be important in understanding what conditions exist naturally prior to potential mining, and for establishing closure goals following potential mining.

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This work is marked with Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

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