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Diel Metal Cycling

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USGS Arsenic Studies Group

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

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Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative

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Negative pH and Extremely Acidic Mine Waters from Iron Mountain, California

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Negative pH, efflorescent mineralogy, and consequences for environmental restoration at the Iron Mountain Superfund site, California

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Fry Canyon Reactive Chemical Wall demonstration project

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Use of tracer injections to measure metal loading from acid mine drainage

 
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 New Features :
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dot Call for Papers : 22nd National Meeting of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation (ASMR) - Breckenridge, CO, June 19-24 2005
dot Report: Effects of Abandoned Coal-Mine Drainage on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Shamokin Creek Basin, Northumberland and Columbia Counties, Pennsylvania, 1999-2001
dot Conference: Pit Lakes 2004: Call for Abstracts Reno, Nevada
dot AML Report From EPA: Nationwide Identification of Hardrock Mining Sites
dot Website: New EPA Abandoned Mine Lands web site
dot Workshops: Characterization and Toxicity Assessment of Mine-Waste Sites
dot Fact Sheet: Diurnal Variation in Trace Metal Concentrations in Streams
dot Workshop: Assessing the Toxicity Potential of Mine Waste Piles -- New Report Available OFR 03-210
dot AMD Guidelines: passive treatment and prevention of acid mine drainage
dot Web Site: Environmental Learning Community
dot Software: AMDTreat 3.1c - new version released
dot Report: Progress on Geoenvironmental Models for Selected Mineral Deposit Types (2002)
dot Book: Handbook on Permeable Reactive Barriers (2002)
dot Book: Reviews in Economic Geology--The Environmental Geochemistry of Mineral Deposits
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