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Abandoned coal-mined lands: Nature, extent, and cost of reclamation
Walter Johnson,G.C. Miller-1996-12-31-OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
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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.
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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
Land reclamationCoal miningCoalGovernment (linguistics)Mining engineeringNatural resource economicsState (computer science)Surface mining
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