Mitigation Of Water Contamination At The Historic Ferris-Haggarty Mine, Wyoming (8fdc0081-3515-4b69-b988-6d9ea3861c78)

- Organization:
- Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
- Pages:
- 7
- File Size:
- 286 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 1, 1998
Abstract
An historic underground copper mine in Wyoming is discharging neutral but copper-laden water into a pristine creek. The EPA-deferred site qualifies for reclamation by the Wyoming Abandoned Mine Land (AML) program; restoring the discharge so that the creek can eventually support a trout fishery is the cleanup goal. Hydrological and geochemical investigations underground have suggested two sources of mine water: one clean and the other copper-containing. Results of bench-scale and pilot-scale tests support the viability of using low-cost passive treatment techniques to reduce copper concentrations in the near-freezing mine discharge.
Citation
APA:
(1998) Mitigation Of Water Contamination At The Historic Ferris-Haggarty Mine, Wyoming (8fdc0081-3515-4b69-b988-6d9ea3861c78)MLA: Mitigation Of Water Contamination At The Historic Ferris-Haggarty Mine, Wyoming (8fdc0081-3515-4b69-b988-6d9ea3861c78). Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, 1998.