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Title: Trace metals in surface water and stream sediments of Healy and Lignite Creek Basins, Alaska

Abstract

Coal has been strip-mined in the Healy and Lignite Creek basins of the Nenana coal field. Trace metals concentrations are low in Healy Creek, but are higher in the Lignite Creek basin. Concentrations of trace metals increase as Healy Creek and Sanderson Creek (in the Lignite basin) flow past mined areas, but effects of coal mining cannot be distinguished from those due to a change in lithology or coal outcrop burning. Metals are typically concentrated on the suspended sediment. The source of the trace metals on sediment and in the water is probably the fine-grained Tertiary rock of the coal-bearing group. Local coals do not contain high levels of trace metals. Concentrations of dissolved and suspended trace metals in water and total-recoverable trace metals in the bed material do not present an environmental hazard in the Healy and Lignite Creek basins at this time. Mining does not appear to have had any appreciable effect on the quality of ground water in the basins. 14 references, 8 tables.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
5839646
Report Number(s):
USGS/WRI-83-4173
ON: TI85901271
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; COAL MINING; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; SEDIMENTS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ACID NEUTRALIZING CAPACITY; ALASKA; CALCIUM; CARBONATES; CHLORIDES; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLUORIDES; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; NITROGEN; PH VALUE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; STREAMS; SURFACE MINING; ZINC; ALKALI METALS; ALKALINE EARTH METALS; CARBON COMPOUNDS; CHEMISTRY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DATA; ELEMENTS; FEDERAL REGION X; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; INFORMATION; METALS; MINING; NONMETALS; NORTH AMERICA; NUMERICAL DATA; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; SURFACE WATERS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; USA; WATER CHEMISTRY; 010800* - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Waste Management; 010900 - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Environmental Aspects; 520200 - Environment, Aquatic- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)

Citation Formats

Parks, B. Trace metals in surface water and stream sediments of Healy and Lignite Creek Basins, Alaska. United States: N. p., 1983. Web.
Parks, B. Trace metals in surface water and stream sediments of Healy and Lignite Creek Basins, Alaska. United States.
Parks, B. 1983. "Trace metals in surface water and stream sediments of Healy and Lignite Creek Basins, Alaska". United States.
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title = {Trace metals in surface water and stream sediments of Healy and Lignite Creek Basins, Alaska},
author = {Parks, B},
abstractNote = {Coal has been strip-mined in the Healy and Lignite Creek basins of the Nenana coal field. Trace metals concentrations are low in Healy Creek, but are higher in the Lignite Creek basin. Concentrations of trace metals increase as Healy Creek and Sanderson Creek (in the Lignite basin) flow past mined areas, but effects of coal mining cannot be distinguished from those due to a change in lithology or coal outcrop burning. Metals are typically concentrated on the suspended sediment. The source of the trace metals on sediment and in the water is probably the fine-grained Tertiary rock of the coal-bearing group. Local coals do not contain high levels of trace metals. Concentrations of dissolved and suspended trace metals in water and total-recoverable trace metals in the bed material do not present an environmental hazard in the Healy and Lignite Creek basins at this time. Mining does not appear to have had any appreciable effect on the quality of ground water in the basins. 14 references, 8 tables.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983},
month = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983}
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