today for my chemistry class we went to the argo mine in idaho springs. i somehow talked chelsie into going with me, as misery loves company! :) it was actually pretty interesting, if yo'ure into the whole chemistry thing.
the water coming out of this tunnel flows around 300 gal/min and it has a pH of 2.5-3. this is the same acidity of your stomach acid. underneath the water are extremophiles. in order to survive, extremophiles are bacteria that do not live where normal aerobic bacteria live. (other examples of extremeophiles are really cold places, really hot places, really basic [pH basic, in the OH- sense] places...). The rust color is from metal that is in the water, oxidizing from the acidity (this is the same rusting that happens to metals in every day life, like your car). to avoid this water going directly into clear creek, it goes to the argo water treatment plant first.
the water treatment plant:
gathers 1200-1400 lb of metal/day from the water
20,000 lb/day are turned to non-hazardous waste
it was an awesome fall day!
did you know that the man who donated the water wheel to the town of idaho springs attributed his good health to never bathing and never kissing girls......? just fyi
also for those of you wondering what dallas actually does for work (because even i really don't know exactly what he does....), this was in the water treatment plant. a part of his work deals with making computer programs that run the plants. he makes screens like this:
the water coming out of this tunnel flows around 300 gal/min and it has a pH of 2.5-3. this is the same acidity of your stomach acid. underneath the water are extremophiles. in order to survive, extremophiles are bacteria that do not live where normal aerobic bacteria live. (other examples of extremeophiles are really cold places, really hot places, really basic [pH basic, in the OH- sense] places...). The rust color is from metal that is in the water, oxidizing from the acidity (this is the same rusting that happens to metals in every day life, like your car). to avoid this water going directly into clear creek, it goes to the argo water treatment plant first.
the water treatment plant:
gathers 1200-1400 lb of metal/day from the water
20,000 lb/day are turned to non-hazardous waste
it was an awesome fall day!
did you know that the man who donated the water wheel to the town of idaho springs attributed his good health to never bathing and never kissing girls......? just fyialso for those of you wondering what dallas actually does for work (because even i really don't know exactly what he does....), this was in the water treatment plant. a part of his work deals with making computer programs that run the plants. he makes screens like this:
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Good job babe! That's what I do.
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