USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative
- Detailed plans, pictures, data & reports of the USGS initiative to remediate the contamination left at abandoned mine sites at the Boulder River basin in southwestern Montana & the Upper Animas River basin in southwestern Colorado.
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Reclamation of Phosphate Mining Sites
- Nature of soils & commercial tree planting on phosphate mining clay settling pond areas. Explains challenges & procedures for achieving land reclamation of such artificially altered areas.
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