Abandoned Mine Lands
Cleaning Up Mine Sites
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Groud water treatment facility at the Gilt Edge Mine (South Dakota)
Highlights
- Overview: Renewable Energy at Mine Sites
- Midvale Slag reuse video
- RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative
- Identification and Evaluation of Community Involvement Activities in Abandoned Mine Land Communities (PDF) (21pp, 490K, About PDF)
- Mine-Scarred Lands Initiative Tool Kit
- Composting at Mine Sites
- AML Technology Research
Abandoned mine lands (AMLs) are those lands, waters and surrounding watersheds where extraction, beneficiation or processing of ores and minerals has occurred. AMLs can pose serious threats to human health and the environment. EPA has a range of resources related to the environmental risks and challenges from AMLs as well as risk management approaches and opportunities to explore innovative reuse opportunities at these sites.
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Palmerton Zinc Sites (PA) (Palmerton Zinc Pile Case Study (PDF) (9pp, 900K, About PDF))
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Before remediation, the once forested mountainside.
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After cleanup, seeding of mountainside by aircraft.
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Tree saplings now established in the stabilized soil.
(source: EPA)