Abandoned Coal-Mined Lands: Nature, Extent, and Cost of Reclamation

摘要

This Bureau of Mines report estimates the extent of abandoned coal-mined lands,focusing on problems emanating from such lands, and examining their magnitude, methods and costs of rehabilitation, and reclamation efforts presently being expended by Federal and State government agencies and the mining industry. Reclamation cost data are current as of 1978.