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Ground-Water Monitoring in the Tucson Copper Mining District.


PB85106862

Publication Date 1983
Page Count 112
Abstract Ground water and tailings pond monitoring in the Upper Santa Cruz Basin Mines Task Force Special Studies Area was performed to determine the nature and extent of aquifer contamination from copper tailings pond recharge in the basin. A monitoring program for each of three mining areas (Mines A, B, and D) was developed. Analysis of data shows that recharge from Mine A ponds caused increased hardness, sulfate, and total dissolved solids in local ground water. However, pumpage in the area has controlled most of the water's movement.
Keywords
  • Mining
  • Ground water recharge
  • Water pollution
  • Monitoring
  • Tailings
  • Seepage
  • Ponds
  • Copper ore deposits
  • Hydrogeology
  • Aquifers
  • Water wells
  • Chemical analysis
  • Calcium carbonates
  • Inorganic sulfates
  • Chlorides
  • Maps
  • Arizona
  • Path of pollutants
  • Water quality data
  • Total dissolved solids
  • Water levels
Source Agency
  • Bureau of Mines
NTIS Subject Category
  • 68D - Water Pollution & Control
  • 48G - Hydrology & Limnology
  • 48A - Mineral Industries
Corporate Authors Pima Association of Governments, Tucson, AZ.; Bureau of Mines, Washington, DC.
Document Type Technical Report
Title Note Open file rept. 15 Apr 81-30 Jul 83.
NTIS Issue Number 198502
Contract Number
  • J0215006
Ground-Water Monitoring in the Tucson Copper Mining District.
Ground-Water Monitoring in the Tucson Copper Mining District.
PB85106862

  • Mining
  • Ground water recharge
  • Water pollution
  • Monitoring
  • Tailings
  • Seepage
  • Ponds
  • Copper ore deposits
  • Hydrogeology
  • Aquifers
  • Water wells
  • Chemical analysis
  • Calcium carbonates
  • Inorganic sulfates
  • Chlorides
  • Maps
  • Arizona
  • Path of pollutants
  • Water quality data
  • Total dissolved solids
  • Water levels
  • Bureau of Mines
  • 68D - Water Pollution & Control
  • 48G - Hydrology & Limnology
  • 48A - Mineral Industries
  • J0215006
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