User:Rumbling Octopus/Choose an Article
Page: Environmental Remediation
- Lot's of places where citations are needed
- I see a content gap related to remediation with regards to aquifers currently only a small section
- lot's of opportunity to write about the affects of tailings management and prevention of leeching affecting pH of aquifers
Page: Optical Mineralogy
- This is the page that I did the last assignment on. However I access that is where all the notes are.
- I own textbooks and other sources on optical mineralogy such as
Page: Miner
- Pretty much a brand new article
- Tons of opportunity to write about the development of mining and the people doing it through the ages
- preliminary search about mining in google scholar as well as ancient mining provide lots of sources and I'm sure I could find book about it in the library as well as chapters about it in books about ancient civilizations.
- source about ancient miners [1]
Article: Bushveld Igneous Complex
- Mining related because bushveld complex
- s-class article so room for improvement
- lots of scholarly resources related to the bushveld complex. [2] Even talked about it with Jim (eg Merensky reef) which might actually be a bad thing.
Article: Victor Diamond Mine
- S-Class article about a diamond mine in Ontario which just recently shut down
- Opportunity to document the production numbers by year. Which is basically what I did for my job for a brief period during the summer working with the OGS
- SEDAR has tons of press releases detailing mining operations [3] and I'm sure I can find scholarly articles describing the kimberlite and the kimberlite complex