USGS Mercury Activities

Mercury in the Environment

USGS Science Activities on mercury in the environment

Mercury Related to Mining and Natural Geologic Sources

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 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
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
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
Environmental Geochemistry Of Mercury Mines In 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

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