2024
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202404.0945.v1
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Coastal Copper Tailings Dispersal: 3D Mapping And Shoreline Impacts, Particle Migration, Leaching, And Toxicity

W. Charles Kerfoot,
Gary Swain,
Robert Regis
et al.

Abstract: Tailings generated by mining account for the largest proportion of global waste from industrial activities. Copper is relatively uncommon world-wide, with low concentrations in sediments and waters, yet is very elevated around mining sites. On the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, USA, jutting out into Lake Superior, 140 mines extracted native copper from the Portage Lake Volcanic Series, part of an intercontinental rift system. Between 1901-1932, two mills at Gay (Mohawk, Wolverine) sluiced 22.7 million metric … Show more

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