The Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District (IKFD) represents a fluoritic subclass of Mississippi Valley-Type deposits (MVT), which are low-temperature lead-zinc ore deposits formed by hydrothermal fluids. Typically MVTs lack contribution from and do not occur near igneous activity. However, due to a cryptoexplosive feature, surrounding Hicks Dome are numerous mafic and ultramafic igneous intrusions, most of which […]
B32: Soil Remediation of Silver Mine Tailings Through the Use of Vegetation
The act and process of mining natural resources has yielded great economic and technological growth for mankind. Although a necessity for our civilization, mining has extensive environmental impacts due to the byproduct of mine waste, also known as tailings. Mine waste is material rendered economically invaluable as a result of the mining ore. The presence […]