Hopefully a Money Graph

Hello! Here's my "money graph", and I can certainly make more, but this one raises questions that I hope we can draw conclusions about: why does Silver Thread, especially at the source, contain more manganese than the pond? Is manganese being trapped in ST sediment? Why is zinc concentration so high at the ST source, drop off in the rest of the ST, and get higher again in the pond? Where is zinc coming from? Chromium and copper are only present at detectable levels in the pond and not in the stream, which is interesting-- why? And finally, why are lead concentrations higher in the pond than in the silver thread? So many good questions to be explored!

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