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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Abandoned mine lands"”.
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Assesment of Water and Sediment Quality in an Abandoned Mine Lands, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
… County, Alabama, encompasses a 67-acre abandoned coal strip mine site slated for reclamation in Fall 2024 as part of the USDOI/DOL Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) Program. The AMLER initiative seeks to properly reclaim legacy mining sites, thereby promoting economic …
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Abandoned Mine Land Impacts on Tributaries in the Upper Yakima River Watershed, Eastern Cascades, Washington
Effluent from abandoned mine lands (AMLs) in several drainages in Washington’s Eastern Cascades flows into the Yakima River. Similar sites in Idaho and Colorado are known producers of heavy metals and acid mine drainage. I determined the effects of nine AMLs on water quality in four tributaries to …
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Economic Viability of Woody Bioenergy Cropping for Surface Mine Reclamation
… biomass for energy production can be used as a mine reclamation procedure to satisfy the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) and provide renewable energy for the United States. This study examines the economic viability of bioenergy production on previously mined lands …
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Coal waste deposition and the distribution of freshwater mussels in the Powell River, Virginia
… collected in riffles at 10 sites to determine particle size distributions and the amount of coal, showed no apparent trends in waste coal from downstream to upstream; however, there were significant negative correlations between PRM location and various fractions of the substratum, …