The stamp sands at Gay are what's left of the pper ore that was procsed at the nearby Mohawk Stamp Mill. In the early 1900's, the Mohawk Mg Company buil
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GAY STAMP SANDS
In Gay, Michigan, a large metal-rich 'halo' exists sediments around the Keweenaw. Vis the Gay Stamp Sands mappg webse to explore geospatial data products veloped unr this project. Gay Stamp Sands.
The stamp sands at Gay are what's left of the pper ore that was procsed at the nearby Mohawk Stamp Mill. The sands beach extends about 5 om the center of Traverse Bay to Gay.
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GAY STAMP SANDS
Drive about 10 and turn right onto Gay Park Road. Gay’s stamp sands nta around 0. Other metals the Gay sands clu alumum, arsenic, chromium, balt, mangane, nickel, lead, silver and zc - all at levels that exceed Michigan safety water qualy standards.
PROJECT UNRWAY GAY TO HR SPREAD OF STAMP SANDS TO LAKE SUPERR
At Gay, blowg dt om the unvered sands uld be harmful over a perd of long and regular exposure to human lungs. In the 1980s when the EPA termed the boundari for the Torch Lake Superfund se, they did not clu the Gay sands. At Gay and Big Traverse Bay the predomant threat is to the environment - pecially to small anisims and to fish.