Features Archive

News and Announcements Archive

Past Articles

• Fry Canyon Reactive Chemical Wall demonstration project
• Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative -- Preliminary Results (1998)
• Use of tracer injections to measure metal loading from acid mine drainage
• Microbes and Spectral Reflectance in Virginia
• USGS: Mining and the Environment
• An Update on USGS Studies of the Summitville Mine and its Downstream Environmental Effects
• Metal Fluxes Across the Sediment-Water Interface in Terrace Reservoir, Colorado
• Impacts of Acid Drainage on Wetlands in the San Luis Valley, Colorado
• Effects of Mining and Related Activities on the Trace
  Element Geochemistry of Sediments in Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Projects:

• Negative pH, efflorescent mineralogy, and consequences for environmental restoration at the Iron Mountain Superfund site, California
• Negative pH and Extremely Acidic Mine Waters from Iron Mountain, California
• Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative
• Acidic-Mine-Drainage Projects in Pennsylvania
• Joint USGS Project with Hungary and Slovakia
• OSM Appalachian Clean Streams Initiative

Other Announcements

• Hands-on experiments to test for acid mine drainage