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Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Geochemical Data: Spor Mountain, Utah

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
2013

Citation

Gold, B.L., DiViesti, D.N., Hess, M.D., Marston, T.M., and Hynek, S.A., 2024, Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Geochemical Data: Spor Mountain, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P14GHRV4.

Summary

The Spor Mountain study area is located in the Spor Mountain Range, approximately 42 miles northwest of Delta, Utah. Mining in the Spor Mountain district began in the 1940s and continues to present day. Fluorspar, uranium, and beryllium are the main ores mined(Ege, 2005). From August through September 2013, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) collected a total of 73 samples from abandoned mine wastepiles, channel sediments downslope of wastepiles, and background areas. The samples were sieved to obtain the less than 177 micron fraction. Geochemical analyses were completed through a third-party contract by General Society of Surveillance (SGS) with method ICM40B - Fifty-five major (except Si and Na), rare earth, and trace elements [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Brittany L Gold
Process Contact :
Zachary C Bueghly
Originator :
Brittany L Gold, Destry N DiViesti, Michael D Hess, Thomas M Marston, Scott A Hynek
Metadata Contact :
Brittany L Gold
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Utah Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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Spor_Mountain_Metadata.xml
“Spor Mountain Metadata”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		67.03 KB application/fgdc+xml
Spor_shapefile.zip
“Spor Mountain Shapefile” 		162.1 KB application/zip
Spor_Mountain_Data_Dictionary.csv
“Spor Mountain Data Dictionary” 		4.46 KB text/csv
Spor_Mountain_Geochemistry.csv
“Spor Mountain Geochemistry” 		21.27 KB text/csv

Purpose

Data were collected to analyze the elemental composition of sediment in abandoned wastepiles. The results of these analysis are released to the public through this dataset.

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