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Browsing by Subject "Geochemistry"
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A stream sediment geochemical reconnaissance of the Golden Trout Wilderness, California
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1981)A hydrogeochemical stream sediment reconnaissance has been carried out in the Golden Trout Wilderness in the southern Sierra Nevada, California. -
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Ecohydrogeology of Owens Valley, California Spring Systems: Relationships between Geochemistry, Benthic Macroinvertebrates, and Microbial Communities
(2020)Integrating hydrogeology and aquatic ecology has intrigued ecologists and hydrologists. The challenges and importance of integrating these disciplines in groundwater-dependent ecosystems (e.g., springs) have been recognized ... -
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Fate and transport of contaminants from acid mine drainage in the Perry Canyon Abandoned Mine Land, Washoe County, Nevada
(2020)Perry Canyon abandoned mine land (AML) hosts acid mine drainage from abandoned mine workings with elevated levels of toxic heavy metals that may be contaminating municipal water in the town of Sutcliffe, Nevada. The objective ... -
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Geochemical Analysis of Calcium Carbonate Cementation and its Role in Reducing Loss Rates along Snake Creek, Southern Snake Valley, White Pine County, Nevada
(2010)Geochemical analysis of Snake Creek was initiated as a result of the Southern Nevada Water Authority's request for the export of water from rural Nevada basins. The creek is important because of ecologically sensitive ... -
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Geochemical and Microbial Controls of Groundwater Quality in Northwestern Liberia
(2017)Years of conflict, political instability, and national emergencies have left behind very little information on water resources in Liberia, West Africa. This research leverages major ion and trace element analysis, Escherichia ... -
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Geochemical Evidence for Mixing Between Basin Pore Waters and Evaporated Lake Water, Dasht-e-Nawar, Afghanistan
(2018)The hydrology of the Dasht-e-Nawar basin in Afghanistan has been largely unstudied, although the basin has been explored in the past for potash and other evaporite resources. Recently there has been a renewed interest in ... -
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Geochemistry and Petrography of Beartrack Mine, Lemhi County, Idaho
(2015)The Beartrack Mine is located in east-central Idaho and is currently being explored by Meridian Gold Company, a subsidiary of the Yamana Gold Company. Production between 1994 and 2000; yielded a total of 608,741 ounces of ... -
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Geochemistry Of Naturally Occurring Arsenic In The Humboldt River Basin, Nevada
(2013)The geochemistry of naturally occurring arsenic (As) has been investigated in the surface waters and ground waters of the shallow alluvial aquifers of the Humboldt River Basin (HRB) in northern Nevada using laboratory ... -
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Geology, Alteration, Paragenesis, and Geochemistry of the Vortex Zone of the Hycroft Gold-Silver Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada
(2013)The Hycroft gold-silver mine is a low sulfidation epithermal hot spring deposit located 55 miles west of Winnemucca, NV near the Blackrock desert. It is located in the historic Sulphur district, which has had mining on and ... -
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Hydrochemical Response of Groundwater Following the 2020 Monte Cristo Range Earthquake Sequence within Mineral and Esmeralda Counties, NV
(2022)The 2020 Monte Cristo Earthquake sequence in western Nevada began with a M 6.5 shock on 5/15/2020, and was the largest to occur in Nevada since 1954. The event exhibited left-lateral slip along an eastward extension of the ... -
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Hydrothermal Footprint of Carlin-type Gold Deposits at the District Scale: Jerritt Canyon Mining District, Elko County, Nevada
(2009)Carlin-type gold deposits in Nevada are among the leading gold producing deposits in the United States and constitute 8% of world production, making the United States one of the leading gold producing countries in the ... -
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Limnology, Arsenic Sorption, and Geochemical Modeling of Mine Pit Lakes
(2009)Mining of disseminated low-grade ore requires the removal of hundreds of millions of kg of rock resulting in large open pits. This type of large-scale mining has increased substantially in the past several decades in the ... -
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Pilot Study using Elemental Geochemistry as a Means of Discriminating Chert Stratigraphy in the Roberts Mountains Allochthon, Nevada
(2016)Biogenic chert beds in the Roberts Mountain Allochthon (RMA) are analyzed for major and trace element geochemistry with the goal of developing a geochemical means to differentiate units. This detailed chemical profile will ... -
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Productive Versus Non-productive Porphyry Systems Surrounding The Peñasquito Diatreme-Porphyry System, Zacatecas, Mexico.
(2020)ABSTRACTIntrusive systems surrounding the Peñasquito polymetallic deposit including the productive Peñasquito diatreme-porphyry complex are located in the northeastern portion of Mexico, within the central-western margin ... -
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Searching for Life in Salt: An Investigation of the Stability and Microbial Habitability of Possible Martian Brines, and Experimental Determination of the Chaotropicity and Kosmotropicity of Inorganic Solutes
(2021)Liquid water is typically unstable at the surface of Mars due to the combination of low temperatures and pressures. However, present-day surface conditions are close to the triple point of water and the presence of dissolved ...