Acid-rich soil in the background, quartz-alunite ledge in the foreground, Geiger Grade, Washoe County
Photographer: Chris Henry 31-Jul-95
Altered andesite buckwheat at Washington Hill, Washoe County. Alex Price for scale.
Photographer: Jon Price ~1992
Map of the lower 48 states showing the locations of arsenic-rich ore deposits, from the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resources Data System
Graphic by NBMG ~1992
Dry open pit at the Big Mike Mine. Alex Price for scale.
Photographer: Jon Price 1995
Ferricrete and acid-rock drainage (natural source, not caused by mining) at adit on east side of Majuba Hill, Pershing County
Photographer: Jon Price 17-Aug-95
Plot of water chemistry compared with rock chemistry of matched water-ferricrete samples
Graphic by NBMG 1995
Ferricrete on Geiger grade, Washoe County. Alex Price for scale.
Photographer: Jon Price 19-Aug-95
Good-quality water from adit in Battle Mountain district. Alex Price for scale
Photographer: Jon Price 1995
Lisa Shevenell, NBMG hydrogeologist, samples water using a bailer in the Aurora pit, Mineral County
Photographer: Jon Price 1995
One well at the Lone Tree Mine pumps 8,000 gallons per minute
Photographer: Jon Price ~1992
Reclamation of drill road, Carlin trend, Eureka County
Photograph courtesy of Newmont Mining Company 1988
Reclamation of drill roads in the distance in the northern Independence Mountains, Elko County
Photographer: Jon Price 1991
Reclamation of a waste pile on the Carlin trend, Eureka County
Photograph courtesy of Newmont Mining Company ~1992
Orange iron oxyhydroxide in streambed next to tailing pile, Rio Tinto Mine, Elko County
Photographer: Jon Price 1995
Sampling water in the Tuscarora pit
Photographer: Jon Price 1995
Apjohnite (hydrated manganese aluminum sulfate) in adit at Urania Peak, Nellis Air Force Base, Nye County. Crystals hang from the back (ceiling) and walls of the adit, and occur in cracks in the walls. Joe Tingley for scale.
Photographer: Jon Price 28-Mar-95
Blue iron sulfate in adit at Urania Peak, Nellis Air Force Base, Nye County. Joe Tingley for scale.
Photographer: Jon Price 1995
Collapse of the road around a shaft in Virginia City, Storey County. A broken water main eroded the cap on top of the mine shaft, which collapsed and swallowed the car of the principal of the local grade school. The car later disappeared out of sight.
Photographer: Becky Purkey 1992
Collapse of the road around a shaft in Virginia City, Storey County. A broken water main eroded the cap on top of the mine shaft, which collapsed and swallowed the car of the principal of the local grade school. The car later disappeared out of sight, and this
Photographer: Becky Purkey 1992
Pit lake at the Yerington copper mine, Lyon County
Photographer: Jon Price ~1995
