USGS Science Activities/Mercury related to mining and natural geologic sources

• Geologic Studies of Mercury by the U.S. Geological Survey
• Mercury Strategy for the Bay-Delta Ecosystem: A Unifying Framework
• Bear-Yuba Watersheds Interagency Abandoned Mine Lands Project
• Abandoned Mercury Mines Terlingua and Mariscal Mountain, Big Bend National Park, Texas
• Mercury methylation influenced by areas of past mercury mining in the Terlingua district, Texas
• Evaluation of Mercury Contamination at Inactive Mercury Mines in and around Big Bend National Park, Texas (the article is on pages 57-64 in this Circular)
• Leaching, transport, and methylation of mercury from mercury mines in and around the Humboldt River basin, Nevada
• Mercury methylation at mercury mines in the Humboldt River Basin, Nevada
• Mercury Contamination from Historical Gold Mining in California FS 2005-3014
• Geochemical characterization...mercury and acidic drainage... Greenhorn Creek, Nevada County, California SIR 2004-5251
• Geochemistry of Mercury...Fluvial Tailings... Daguerre Point Dam, Yuba River, California SIR 2004-5165
• Mercury and Arsenic Contamination Associated with Abandoned Mine Lands, Bear River and South Yuba River Watersheds
• Mercury contamination from hydraulic placer-gold mining in the Dutch Flat mining district, California (PDF pp 179-189) WRIR 99-4018B
• Water and Sediment Quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, During Water Year 2002
• Source, Transport, and Partitioning of Metals between Water, Colloids, and Bed Sediments of the Animas River, Colorado USGS OFR 97-0151
• Historical deposition and fluxes of mercury in Narraguinnep Reservoir, southwestern Colorado
• Environmental Geochemistry Of Mercury Mines In Alaska
• Environmental geochemistry of mercury mines and deposits in southwestern Alaska (the article is on pages 17-29 in this bulletin)
• Mercury in vegetation and soils at abandoned mercury mines in southwestern Alaska
• Distribution, speciation, and transport of mercury in stream-sediment, stream-water, and fish collected near abandoned mercury mines in southwestern Alaska
• Environmental Studies of Mineral Deposits in Alaska
• Geoenvironmental Impacts of Mercury and Arsenic
• Mercury transport and uptake by biota in a cinnabar mine-impacted creek
• Mercury Speciation and Microbial Transformations in Mine Wastes, Stream Sediments, and Surface Waters at the Almadén Mining District, Spain
• Mercury and methylmercury contamination related to artisanal gold mining, Suriname
• Mercury and methylmercury contents in mine-waste calcine, water, and sediment collected from the Palawan Quicksilver Mine, Philippines