Preliminary Characterization, Silver Crescent Mill Tailings and Mine Site, EastFork Moon Creek, Shoshone County, Idaho

摘要

The report describes a site-specific study of the mail tailings and immediatearea surrounding the Silver Crescent Mine and mill complex on Moon Creek in Moon Gulch in northern Idaho. The scope of the work was limited to the surface-water hydrology at the mine and mill tailings site, definition of mill tailings, and characterization of the environment using the following disciplines: geochemistry, hydrology, geostatistics, biology (benthic studies), geophysics, and remote sensing.