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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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Buckeye Tailings Before
 
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 Features
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dot Journal Article: A comparison of pre- and post-remediation water quality, Mineral Creek, Colorado: Hydrological Processes, Volume 23, p. 3319-3333
dot Request for Proposals: 2010 Applied Science Request for Proposals from the Office of Surface
Mining.
Due date for submittal is January 15, 2010.
dot Journal Articles: Special Issue of Applied Geochemistry -- "Natural Low-pH Environments Unaffected by Human Activity," Edited by Robert G. Eppinger and Ron Fuge (February 2009, Volume Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 189-358)
dot Workshop Presentations: Diurnal Cycling of Chemical Constituents in Surface Water and Related Media-Scientific and Regulatory Considerations, Trenton, NJ, December 12, 2008
dot Journal Article: An empirical method for estimating instream pre-mining pH and dissolved Cu concentration in catchments with acidic drainage and ferricrete
dot Journal Article: Metals fate and transport modelling in streams and watersheds: state of the science and USEPA workshop review: Hydrological Processes
Volume 22, Issue 19, Date: 15 September 2008, Pages: 4011-4021
dot News release: Pennsylvania to Commit Federal Abandoned Mine Lands Funding to Mine Drainage Cleanup
dot Journal Articles: 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 Journal Article: 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
 
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 Meetings
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dot Meeting: 2009 Geological Society of America will be held October 18-21, 2009 in Portland, OR, USA. Various sessions include presentations on geochemistry, water quality, hydrology, and geology in mined settings.
dot Meeting: International Mine Water Association (IMWA) Symposium 2009: Pretoria (South Africa), October 19-23, 2009, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria
dot Meeting: 2009 Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union will be held December 14–18, 2009, in San Francisco, CA, USA. Abstracts for presentations are due September 3, 2009.
dot Meeting: The Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) :February 28-March 3, 2010, in Phoenix, Arizona. Abstracts are requested for the session, "Acid Drainage Technology Initiative (ADTI) Research in the Coal and Metal Mining Sectors" by May 15, 2009.
dot Meeting: 7th National Monitoring Conference--Monitoring from the Summit to the Sea will be held April 25-29, 2010 in Denver, CO, USA. Abstracts being solicited for the session on Effects of Mining on Water Resources are due September 18, 2009.
dot Meeting: 2010 Joint Conference: 27th American Society of Mining and Reclamation, 12th Pennsylvania Abandoned Mine Reclamation, and 4th Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative annual meetings will be held June 5-10, 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Abstracts for presentations are due October 19, 2009.
dot Meeting: 2010 Symposium International Mine Water Association will be held September 5–9, 2010, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Abstracts for presentations are due January 15, 2010.
 
 
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