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Abandoned Coal-Mined Lands: Nature, Extent, and Cost of Reclamation.

PB299535

Publication Date	1979
Personal Author	Johnson, W.; Miller, G. C.
Page Count	34
Abstract	This Bureau of Mines report estimates the extent of abandoned coal-mined lands, focusing on problems emanating from such lands, and examining their magnitude, methods and costs of rehabilitation, and reclamation efforts presently being expended by Federal and State government agencies and the mining industry. Reclamation cost data are current as of 1978.
Keywords	Coal mines Coal mining Surface mining Strip mining Land reclamation Subsidence Mine fires Photographs Reviewing Abandoned sites Acid mine drainage Mine acid drainage
Source Agency	Bureau of Mines
NTIS Subject Category	48A - Mineral Industries 97R - Environmental Studies 68 - Environmental Pollution & Control
Corporate Authors	Bureau of Mines, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Special pub.
NTIS Issue Number	197924

Abandoned Coal-Mined Lands: Nature, Extent, and Cost of Reclamation.

Abandoned Coal-Mined Lands: Nature, Extent, and Cost of Reclamation.
PB299535

Publication Date	1979
Personal Author	Johnson, W.; Miller, G. C.
Page Count	34
Abstract	This Bureau of Mines report estimates the extent of abandoned coal-mined lands, focusing on problems emanating from such lands, and examining their magnitude, methods and costs of rehabilitation, and reclamation efforts presently being expended by Federal and State government agencies and the mining industry. Reclamation cost data are current as of 1978.
Keywords	Coal mines Coal mining Surface mining Strip mining Land reclamation Subsidence Mine fires Photographs Reviewing Abandoned sites Acid mine drainage Mine acid drainage
Source Agency	Bureau of Mines
NTIS Subject Category	48A - Mineral Industries 97R - Environmental Studies 68 - Environmental Pollution & Control
Corporate Authors	Bureau of Mines, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Special pub.
NTIS Issue Number	197924