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Watershed Contamination from Hard Rock Mining

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Diel Metal Cycling

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Mine Waste Characterization Project

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Arsenic Studies Group

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Bear-Yuba AML: Interagency project on mercury from gold mining areas

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Fry Canyon Reactive Chemical Wall demonstration project

dot Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative
dot Upper Arkansas River Basin Toxics Site
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 Photographs from various activities
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 News & Announcements
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dot Report: Metals fate and transport modelling in streams and watersheds: state of the science and USEPA workshop review. Hydrological Processes
dot News release: Pennsylvania to Commit Federal Abandoned Mine Lands Funding to Mine Drainage Cleanup
dot Conference: 2008 Abandoned Mine Reclamation & Coal Mining Heritage Conference
dot Conference: Abandoned Mine Posts: The 10th PA AMR Conference: Reclaiming
Our Past, Shaping Our Future
dot Journal Article: Special Issue of Applied Geochemistry -- "Sulfide Oxidation: Insights from Experimental, Theoretical, Stable Isotope, and Predictive Studies in the Field and Laboratory," Edited by Robert R. Seal and Wayne C. Shanks (February 2008, Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 101-342)
dot Paper: Dissolved metals and associated constituents in abandoned coal-mine discharges, Pennsylvania, USA: 1. Constituent concentrations and correlations
dot Paper: Dissolved metals and associated constituents in abandoned coal-mine discharges, Pennsylvania, USA: 2. Geochemical controls on constituent concentrations
dot Meeting: 10th IMWA Congress Mine Water and the Environment , June 2-5, 2008 Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic
dot Paper: Quantification of Changes in Metal Loading from Storm Runoff, Merse River (Tuscany, Italy)
dot Bibliography:Mining-Related Stream Transport Simulation Reader - Applications of OTEQ, OTIS, and Transient Storage for Metals, Cations, and Acidic Streams
dot Report: Integrated Investigations of Environmental Effects of Historical Mining in the Animas River Watershed, San Juan County, Colorado
dot Meeting: The Joint Conference of the 6th International Acid Sulfate Soil Conference and the Acid Rock Drainage Symposium Guangzhou, China; September 16-20, 2008.
dot Meeting: 8th ICARD International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage, June 22-26, 2009.
dot Report: A simulation-based approach for estimating premining water quality: Red Mountain Creek, Colorado.
dot Fact Sheet: Understanding contaminants associated with mineral deposits
dot Paper: Passive aerobic treatment of net-alkaline, iron-laden
drainage from a flooded underground anthracite mine, Pennsylvania, USA
dot Meeting: 25th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation (ASMR): June 14-19, 2008 Abstracts/presentation submission due October 15 2007
dot Report: Effects of historical coal mining and drainage from abandoned mines on streamflow and water quality in Newport and nanticoke Creeks, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 1999-2000
dot Video: Sampling in Mine Drainage -- Looking for Solute Inflows to Streams with Questions on Hyporheic Mixing. Seminar given by Ken Bencala on 5/10/2007
dot News: Basics of SMCRA Title IV -- Summary of federal program that regulates coal mine reclamation
dot Report: USGS Report on Selenium in Coal-Bearing Strata; The report discusses selenium concentrations in rock in three cores from southern West Virginia and selenium leaching studies from some of these rock samples. (USGS OFR 2007-1090)
dot Water-Quality Criteria: USEPA changes procedure for calculating aquatic-life standards for copper. Freshwater criteria is now based on the biotic ligand model
dot Report: Multiple injected and natural conservative tracers quantify mixing in a stream confluence affected by acid mine drainage near Silverton, Colorado Hydrological Processes
dot Report: Net alkalinity and net acidity 1: Theoretical considerations
dot Report: Net alkalinity and net acidity 2: Practical considerations
dot Report: Report on thermodynamic properties of ferric sulfate minerals. "Thermodynamic properties and crystal structure refinement of ferricopiapite, coquimbite, rhomboclase, and Fe2(SO4)3(H2O)5"
dot News: ALPERSITE -- A newly identified mineral has been named "alpersite" in honor of Charles N. Alpers, geochemist with the USGS California Water Sciences Center
dot Website: Trout Unlimited's Grassroots Guide to Abandoned Mine Cleanup
dot Report: Integrated investigation of environmental effects of historical mining in the Basin and Boulder mining districts, Boulder River watershed, Montana
dot Report: Highway Cut through Pyritic Shale in Pennsylvania Produces Acid Drainage
dot Website: USGS Geological Research Activities with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management
dot Report: A multiheaded beast--Abandoned mine lands and the challenge of water protection
 
 
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