Science for Decision Making on Uranium Mining in Arizona

Hack Canyon Mines Photo Gallery

Hack Canyon

  • Burrows in waste rock pile

    Burrow in eroded terrace exposing waste rock from Hack 1 Mine. June 2012. Photo credit: Jo Ellen Hinck , USGS .

  • Eroded terrace of waste rock

    Eroded terrace of waste rock at Hack 1 Mine. June 2012. Photo credit: Jo Ellen Hinck , USGS .

  • Hack Canyon

    Hack Canyon Mine Complex area. June 2012. Photo credit: Jo Ellen Hinck , USGS .

  • Eroded terrace with burrows

    Eroded terrace of waste rock with animal burrows/nest at Hack 1 Mine. June 2012. Photo credit: Jo Ellen Hinck , USGS .

  • Hack Canyon ridge

    Hack Canyon Mine Complex area. June 2012. Photo credit: Jo Ellen Hinck , USGS .

  • Hack Canyon area

    Hack Canyon Mine Complex area. June 2012. Photo credit: Jo Ellen Hinck , USGS .

Soil

  • View of gray/black boulder containing multiple smaller boulders with a Ludlum Model 19, Micro R reader registering a reading of 500 micro R per hour on the 0-500 scale of the meter.

    Boulder eroded out of Hack Mine waste pile registering radiation reading of 400 microRoentgens per hour using Ludlum model 19 micro R (Roentgen) meter. . June 2014. Photo credit: K. Walton-Day , U.S. Geological Survey .

  • Hack Mine waste pile cross cut by erosion from streamflow in intermittent stream channel. View of slumped blocks in front of cut face, rubble in the cut face, vegetation on top of the eroded waste pile, and sandy, gravely dry stream channel in front of pile.

    View of Hack mine waste pile eroding into the intermittent stream channel looking upstream. Slumping block evident near center of photograph. . June 2014. Photo credit: K. Walton-Day , U.S. Geological Survey .

  • Looking directly at eroded mine waste pile showing vegetation on top, rubble in the pile, and sandy stream bed in the foreground. Slumping block of mine waste that has fallen off the pile into the channel is on the left.

    Hack Mine Waste pile profile where cut by erosion from intermittent stream at the base of the pile. . June 2014. Photo credit: K. Walton-Day , U.S. Geological Survey .

  • Dry, sandy stream channel on the right with bluff on the right that has been scraped off showing internal structure/rubble of mine waste pile with one section slumping into the stream channel.

    Hack Canyon dry creek bed showing mine waste pile that has been cut into when water flows in the channel and where mine waste is eroding into the channel. . June 2014. Photo credit: K. Walton-Day , U.S. Geological Survey .