Innovative Approaches to Mined Land Reclamation

This volume, drawn from the 1986 National Mined Land Reclamation Conference, focuses on the practical application of the latest research to the field situation.It discusses a multitude of technical problems associated with the reclamation of surface-mined land, including such common problems as improving soil reconstruction methods and restoring site productivity, developing environmentally safe and efficient methods for disposing of the waste material created by mining, and enhancing groundwater recharge and the groundwater and surface water quality of mined areas. In these papers reclamation specialists from the academic community, government, private industry, and research institutions review current reclamation policy and problems and examine innovative approaches to reclamation."