May 1

• Between weeks 8 and 12, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date.
  • What data did you collect?
    • This past week, I collected two forms of data. First I collected an interview which my father conducted down in Hurley, Mexico. The second form of information I gathered was on the process Acid Mine Drainage as well as health outcomes of those who are exposed to copper smelter processes.
  • What is your initial impression of the data?
    • I am still going through all of it, but I now have a solid grasp on some of the chemistry behind sulfuric acid and the environmental dangers it causes as well as the
  • How have the data you have collected this week changed/progressed your thinking about your research project?
    • I am now realizing the scale and the time which not only Hurley, but also the greater valley which opens towards El Paso could become uninhabitable for. Thus, I am now thinking in larger scales.
  • What challenges did you encounter while collecting the data?
    • I am having to lean on friends to understand a lot of the scientific jargon
  • What are your next steps?
    • I am going to potentially interview a friend over the weekend on the process of leaching. I have given up on professor Camill. He is obviously too busy.
  • 2-3 annotations.
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      Carrizales, Leticia, Israel Razo, Jesús I. Téllez-Hernández, Rocío Torres-Nerio, Arturo Torres, Lilia E. Batres, Ana-Cristina Cubillas, and Fernando Díaz-Barriga. 2006. “Exposure to Arsenic and Lead of Children Living near a Copper-Smelter in San Luis Potosi, Mexico: Importance of Soil Contamination for Exposure of Children.” Environmental Research 101(1):1–10.

      Charles E. Ophardt. 2003. “Copper Smelter.” Virtual Chembook. Retrieved April 28, 2019 (http://chemistry.elmhurst.edu/vchembook/335coppersmelter.html).

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      Gerhardsson, Lars, Vagn Englyst, Nils-Göran Lundström, Susanne Sandberg, and Gunnar Nordberg. 2002. “Cadmium, Copper and Zinc in Tissues of Deceased Copper Smelter Workers.” Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology 16(4):261–66.

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      Grout, J. A. and C. D. Levings. 2001. “Effects of Acid Mine Drainage from an Abandoned Copper Mine, Britannia Mines, Howe Sound, British Columbia, Canada, on Transplanted Blue Mussels (Mytilus Edulis).” Marine Environmental Research 51(3):265–88.

      Halatek, Tadeusz, Halina Sinczuk-Walczak, Beata Janasik, Malgorzata Trzcinka-Ochocka, Renata Winnicka, and Wojciech Wasowicz. 2014. “Health Effects and Arsenic Species in Urine of Copper Smelter Workers.” Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A 49(7):787–97.

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    • Added at a later time:

Alan Miller. 2018. “The Impacts of Heavy Metal Toxicity.” Thorne. Retrieved May 4, 2019 (https://www.thorne.com/take-5-daily/article/the-impacts-of-heavy-metal-toxicity).

Correia, David. 2013. “The Toxic Tales of Susana Martinez: How Mining Giant Freeport McMoRan Is Rewriting Environmental Laws in New Mexico.” Alibi. Retrieved May 5, 2019 (https://alibi.com/news/45049/story.html).

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Lisa Summi and Bonnie Gestring. May 23. Polluting the Future: How Mining Companies Are Contaminating Our Nation’s Waters in Perpetuity. Science Report. Washington DC: EarthWorks.

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