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

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. 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 and I'm sure I can find scholarly articles describing the kimberlite and the kimberlite complex