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Standard Metals Tailings Material Analysis <br /> Listed below are soil texute, pH and conductivity for samples taken from <br /> various locations on the tailing pile and peat soil June 1976. Texture is <br /> quite variable and is typically stratified. Conductivity and pH of tailings <br /> indicate no adverse effect to plants that would naturally grow in this <br /> climatic setting. However, natural fertility is very low. Side slopes <br /> soils have very low water-holding capacity, which is a limiting factor in <br /> establishing and maintaining plants. <br /> Table 1 - A Soils Analysis of Pond #2 and Peat Soil <br /> Site Location <br /> Top-Center South Slope Peat Peat <br /> Test 8-10 Inches 6-8 Inches Moist 1/ Dry Basis <br /> pH 7.4 7.2 6.6 l.i% <br /> Nitrate Nitrogen 20 ppm Neg 3100 ppm 0.198% <br /> Phosphorus (P205) Neg 15 ppm <br /> 60 pm 0 ppm <br /> .130% <br /> Potassium 150 ppm 7 400 -- <br /> Calcium 2800 ppm — <br /> Magnesium trace 4 ppm _ _- <br /> Manganese 25 ppm 5 ppm -- -_ <br /> Aluminum Neg Neg -- <br /> Ferric Iron 50 ppm 8 ppm — -- <br /> Sulfate 25 ppm 2000 ppm — _- <br /> Chloride 15 ppm -- 14— 14 52.24% <br /> Ash — <br /> 1/ As Received Moist Basis <br /> Peat Material: A peat-soil material was used in the seeding and <br /> transplanting in 1978. However, the sources were variable and appearently <br /> differed in chemical analysis from the above. In March 1979 Dr. W. H. Berg <br /> did an analysis on the material used in the 1978 plantings. His laboratory <br /> analysis showed a pH of 1 .2 and 1 .3 and a conductivity of 12 and 33 <br /> mmhos/cm. <br />