... remedial strategies for abandoned mine drainage (AMD ... drainage from abandoned coal or ... HISTORIC SITES, *MINES(EXCAVATIONS), *RAILROAD ...
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The paper summarizes current research on abandoned underground coal mines. t forms an initial basis for developing an inventory of methane emissions from such mines. arly measurements have shown that some abandoned coal mines can liberate large volumes ...
EPA Science Inventory
The paper summarizes current research on abandoned underground coal mines. It forms an initial basis for developing an inventory of methane emissions from such mines. Early measurements have shown that some abandoned coal mines can liberate large ...
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... wetlands to treat acid mine drainage from abandoned acid coal ... SUBSTRATES, COMPOSTS, COAL MINES, RECLAMATION, SAWDUST. ...
-Abandoned Mine Land Inventory - Coal Mine Related Problems ... easily map layers that show you the locations of airports, abandoned mines, and ...
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... to locate suspected abandoned mine openings in ... recent, known, sealed mine opening ... PENNSYLVANIA, COAL, MINES(ORDNANCE), ANOMALIES ...
...and reactivating of abandoned or deactivated coal mines, notification by the...and reactivating of abandoned or deactivated coal mines, notification by the...underground coal mine, and a mine which has been ...
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010
Many coal mining companies have potential surface mine reserves which either are known or suspected to have had prior drift mining activity on them. In many cases, there is no documentation on these mines or at best, very fragmented records. These undocumented abandoned ...
Energy Citations Database
A partial listing of contents includes: History of coal development in Illinois; History of surface-mining reclamation laws in Illinois; The Abandoned Mined Lands Reclamation Act; Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977; Survey of abandoned min...
... 2.0.CO;2 Virginia Big-eared Bats (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) Roosting in Abandoned Coal Mines in West ... coal mines....
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A novel approach to eliminating environmental and public safety hazards that are associated with fires in abandoned coal mines and waste banks involves the use of in situ combustion technology developed by the Federal Bureau of Mines to accelerate the bur...
... Program, which encourages the placement of coal combustion waste (CCW) in active and abandoned mines. The study ... ...
In the State of Illinois lands that have been abandoned after deep mining or strip mining of coal present unique land reclamation problems. The old Consolidated Mine No. 14 was located in Macoupin County, northwest of the town of Staunton, Illinois. The r...
The hydrologic characteristics of two abandoned underground coal mine sites, near Latrobe, PA, and Unionntown, PA, were investigated by the U.S. Bureau of Mines for possible implementation of alkaline injection into the mine pools as a means of abating th...
The Coal Mine Drainage Bibliography covers the following areas: surface and underground mines, active and abandoned mines, reclaimed surface mines, and planning of new mines. Also included are information on lakes formed by surface ...
demonstration surveys to detect old abandoned mine workings at several coal mines MSHA Contract # J53R1011
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This report describes the work performed and the results obtained under a study directed toward identifying innovative recontouring strategies for abandoned surface coal mine lands. The study examined nine specific sites considered typical of abandoned mi...
Remediation of Abandoned Mines Using Coal Combustion By-Products Sowmya Bulusu1 ; Ahmet H. Aydilek that occurs when pyrite that is present in abandoned coal mines comes in contact with oxygen and water, which results in the formation of sulfuric acid and iron hydroxide. ...
Research on revegetation of Alaskan coal mine spoils and related topics was conducted at three mine locations in 1980 and 1981. One of the locations was at an active commercial mine, another at an abandoned mine, and the third at a test pit in a coal ...
Volume I of this report provides an overview of abandoned coal and noncoal mineral surface mine lands in the Tennessee Valley. It calls attention to problems associated with abandoned mines and points out reclamation accomplishments by State and Federal a...
Volume 1 of this report provides an overview of abandoned coal and noncoal mineral surface mine lands in the Tennessee Valley. It calls attention to problems associated with abandoned mines and points out reclamation accomplishments by State and Federal a...
The study was designed to assist individuals involved with problem of abandoned mines that are subsiding. The study analyzed the practicality and desirability of using blasting to stabilize subsiding abandoned underground mines. Application of blasting to...
...DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION GENERAL RECLAMATION...permit is carried out under the Abandoned Mine Land Program, the permittee of the site shall reimburse the Abandoned Mine Land Fund for the cost of...
Mine drainage, also known as acid mine drainage, is sulfuric acid that drains from mines, especially abandoned underground coal mines such as in ...
... COAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH MANDATORY SAFETY STANDARDS-UNDERGROUND COAL MINES Ventilation § 75.373 Reopening mines. After a mine is abandoned or declared inactive, and before it is reopened, mining operations shall not...
Recovery of coal from mine wastes produced by historic longwall mines in northeastern Illinois was studied as part of a project undertaken in 1982 for the Illinois Abandoned Mined Lands Reclamation Council. About 100 of these mines operated in the Wilming...
An international approach to developing a conceptual environmental management plan for the reclamation of abandoned coal mined lands in India will be discussed. This plan will be aimed at reclamation of a coal field which has been mined for almost 100 years with no reclamation of any kind.
Over 1,000 abandoned coal mine entries such as shafts, slopes, and drifts exist in the Eastern Coal Provinces of the United States. The paper discusses recent Office of Surface Mining case histories of hazardous shaft reclamation. Shaft collapse and chara...
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...
...Resources OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND-FEE COLLECTION AND COAL PRODUCTION REPORTING § 870.19 How to...
A U.S. Bureau of Mines review of 105 remining permits in Pennsylvania indicates that remining results in substantial reclamation of abandoned mine lands, utilization of significant quantities of coal, and reduction contaminant loads (acidity and iron) fro...
...of abandoned or deactivated coal mines, notification by the...operator of a new underground coal mine, and a mine which has...reactivating the mine notify the Coal Mine Health and Safety...proposed program ...
... the United States approaches this level of imperilment. Coal mining may be a major factor in the ... extirpated. More than 66,000 documented sources of coal mining-related discharges and abandoned mine dr...
... Basin. Both basins are mostly within the Northern Anthracite Coal Field and drain to the Susquehanna River ... ...
U.S. Bureau of Mines research to develop diagnostic methods to locate and evaluate fires in abandoned mines and waste banks and techniques to extinguish such fires was applied to an abandoned 60-acre underground bituminous coal mine (Renton, Allegheny Cou...
Studies on the initiation and propagation of mine fires have dealt almost exclusively with coal. It has been assumed that the self-heating potential of carbonaceous shales and coal wastes is relatively low. However, in abandoned coal mines and waste banks...
...MINERALS (OTHER THAN COAL) EXPLORATION AND MINING OPERATIONS Protection Against Mining Hazards § 3595.2 Abandonment of underground...abandoned and rendered inaccessible without the advance, written approval of the authorized...
abandoned mines; and installation of treatment processing at active mines. The utilization of remote services (steps 1-3) enables a comprehensive approach ...
... Abstract : Contaminated water flowing from abandoned coal mines is one of the ... Acid mine drainage (AMD) can have severe impacts to aquatic ...
Acid mine drainage (AMD) from active and abandoned coal mines has resulted in severely degraded water quality ... ...
water from abandoned coal mining sites. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA lands and streams that had been damaged or degraded by past mining practices. The abandoned mine lands in abandoned underground ...
Strong circumstantial evidence suggests that lightning has initiated methane explosions in abandoned and sealed areas of underground coal mines. The report investigates this phenomenon.
There are over 4,000 abandoned deep coal mine refuse areas in Illinois ranging in size from a few acres to as large as 160 acres. These sites produce quantities of pollutants which affect the environment, have no real land value, and are a scar on the lan...
More than 100 years of anthracite coal mining has changed surface- and ground-water hydrology and contaminated streams draining the Southern Anthracite Coal Field in east-central ... ...
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 has provided a funded program for reclaiming the nation's abandoned coal-mine lands. This paper reviews methods of inventorying such lands and discusses criteria and planning strategies needed to ensu...
The Bureau of Mines, at the request of local authorities in Rock Springs, WY., investigated and conducted through contracts a multistage program of exploratory drilling and pumped-slurry backfilling of 15 areas of potential subsidence in abandoned mine wo...
Reclamation of abandoned lands has recently become a national issue, primarily with the introduction of federal strip mine legislation. Illinois, like many other states in which coal is mined, has extensive acreages of abandoned mine spoils. The demonstra...
Abandoned mine sites associated with coal and metal mining across the western United States have been left as unproductive wastelands. The availability of soil materials or other materials to support the restoration of the vegetative cover and enhance the...
... LONG TERM CONTRACTING RURAL ABANDONED MINE PROGRAM Qualifications § 632...coal-mining processes and were abandoned or inadequately reclaimed before...responsibility on the part of a mine operator, permittee, or...
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011
...ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION SUBSIDENCE AND STRIP MINE REHABILITATION, APPALACHIA § 881...for the sealing and filling of voids in abandoned coal mines or for the reclamation and...
...Resources OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND-FEE COLLECTION AND COAL PRODUCTION REPORTING § 870.5 Definitions....
...Resources OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND-FEE COLLECTION AND COAL PRODUCTION REPORTING § 870.23 Consequences...
...Resources OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND-FEE COLLECTION AND COAL PRODUCTION REPORTING § 870.21 Late...
...Resources OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND-FEE COLLECTION AND COAL PRODUCTION REPORTING § 870.16 Acceptable...
...Resources OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND-FEE COLLECTION AND COAL PRODUCTION REPORTING § 870.14 Determination...
...Resources OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND-FEE COLLECTION AND COAL PRODUCTION REPORTING § 870.13 Fee rates....
...Resources OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND-FEE COLLECTION AND COAL PRODUCTION REPORTING § 870.12 Reclamation...
...Resources OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND-FEE COLLECTION AND COAL PRODUCTION REPORTING § 870.11...
...Resources OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND-FEE COLLECTION AND COAL PRODUCTION REPORTING § 870.10 Information...
...Resources OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ABANDONED MINE LAND RECLAMATION ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND-FEE COLLECTION AND COAL PRODUCTION REPORTING § 870.1 Scope....
Drainage from abandoned coal mines in western and central Washington has minimal environmental impact. Water-quality data from 51 abandoned coal mines representing 11 major coal-bearing areas indicate that less than 1 percent of the ...
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) created the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) in the Department of the Interior to oversee the regulation of coal exploration and surface coal mining and reclamation o...
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) created the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) in the Department of the Interior to oversee regulation of coal exploration, surface coal mining and reclamation operatio...
aquifers, the City of Arvada has turned to abandoned coal mines as a solution to water storage. This alternative solution is advantageous because abandoned coal mines have large storage capacity their subsurface Meeting 639 #12;Time-lapse gravity monitoring of an aquifer ...
The U.S. Bureau of Mines applied its mine fire diagnostic method to an abandoned anthracite mine fire site in Carbondale, Lackawanna County, PA. The technique to locate fires in abandoned coal mines and coal refuse piles includes ...
The development of environmental impact assessment of selenium from coal mine spoils will provide a useful guideline to predict the environmental impact of Se from abandoned coal mine operations. Information obtained from such a study can be applied in areas where coal ...
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The Committee on Abandoned Mine Lands (CAML) analyzed how the U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Office of Surface Mining (OSM) has and is administering the Title IV (Abandoned Mine Lands) Program of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of ...
-Abandoned Mine Land Inventory - Coal Mine Related Problems -Agriculture Census ... -Arsenic in Groundwater (TIFF image) -Average Annual Precipitation ...
... abandoned coal mines has resulted in severely degraded water quality and the substantial loss of aquatic biodiversity. In ... ...
Act Compliance for Utility-Scale Renewable Energy Right-of-Way Authorizations... (more) OSM Extends Deadline for 2011 Excellence In Surface Coal Mining and 2011 AML Reclamation...
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these pollutants are "suspect carcinogens"3 . Previous studies have shown that in coal mining areas, the quality to pollution from percolation. With great porosity and permeability, abandoned coal mines become aquifers://www.detnews.com>. Meadows A., and R. Earikson (2002). Acid ...
In this work the author describes the use of gravel bulkheads for confining hydraulic backfilling of abandoned underground coal mines that are simply refilled or, as in the case of the Portal Park swimming pool in Colorado Springs, rebuilt in the area over the abandoned mine. Hydraulic ...
Following a statewide survey of all Illinois lands affected by underground mining for coal, the Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale identified problem areas associated with abandoned underground mine site...
Contaminated water flowing from abandoned coal mines is one of the most significant contributors to water pollution in former and current coal- producing areas. Acid mine drainage (AMD) can have severe impacts to aquatic resources, can stunt terrestrial p...
Disposal of coal combustion by-products (CCBs) in an environmentally sound manner is a major issue facing the coal and utility industries in the US today. Disposal into abandoned sections of underground coal mines may overcome many of the surface disposal...
A U.S. Bureau of Mines review of 105 remining permits in Pennsylvania indicates that remining results in substantial reclamation of abandoned mine lands, utilization of significant quantities of coal, and reduction contaminant loads (acidity and iron) from degraded mine drainage discharges. ...
This demonstration project was devised to determine the feasibility of using abandoned coal strip mines for the disposal of solid wastes by sanitary landfilling. Two sites were used. Frostburg Site Number 1 served from the beginning of the project in the ...
Pneumatic conveyance systems of varying capabilities were used to backfill abandoned coal mines. Results indicate that pneumatic conveyance of backfill materials is a viable method of abandoned mine reclamation. Costs are competitive especially when the a...
This technical note provides information on the use of dredged material in manufacturing substrate for use in constructing wetlands to treat acid mine drainage from abandoned acid coal minelands.
