Site Reclamation Mining Environment

Nature of soils and commercial tree planting on phosphate mining clay settling pond areas. Explains challenges and procedures for achieving land reclamation of such artificially altered areas.

• USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative - Detailed plans, pictures, data and reports of the USGS initiative mining to remediate the contamination left at abandoned mine sites at mining the Boulder River basin in southwestern Montana and the Upper mining Animas River basin in southwestern Colorado.
• Reclamation of Phosphate Mining Sites - Nature of soils and commercial tree planting on phosphate mining clay settling pond areas. Explains challenges and procedures for achieving land reclamation of such artificially altered areas.

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