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Mountaintop removal: Moving the mountains -- strip mining by any other name - Roanoke.com
West Virginia mine may take tens of thousands. Even so, mountaintop removal mining and lesser forms of strip mining are altering large swathes of Southwest Virginia’s landscape. Coal companies and ... to get at one ton of coal. The most dramatic version of strip mining is mountaintop removal mining, though regulators and environmentalists sometimes disagree about where that term applies. Taking ...
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Mining on the Colorado Plateau
Kayenta/Black Mesa mining complex on Black Mesa in the Navajo Nation. The establishment of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 1996 prevented the strip mining ... several environmental groups. The most important effects of mining activities on the region's biota are habitat loss due to extensive strip-mining operations and infiltration of mine waste into local ...
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Mountain Justice - What is Mountain Top Removal Mining?
Mining? Mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining (MTR) has been called strip mining on steroids. One author says the process should be more accurately named: mountain range removal. Mountaintop removal /valley fill mining ... holding the sludge lake (2.8 billion gallons), directly above the school. Traditional mining communities dissappear as jobs diminish and residents are driven away by dust, ...
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Mountain-Top Removal Mining in Appalachia | Erik Reece | Orion magazine
There is a galling ... the Clean Water Act to reclassify all waste associated with strip mining as merely benign “fill material.” A federal judge ... abridged for the web. Erik Reece's book, Lost Mountain: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia was published in February 2006 ...
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Penn Future - Mining - Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future: Working to Protect Pennsylvania's Environment and Economy
General Assembly passed Act 54, amending state mining laws to make it easier for coal mining companies to use a method called longwall mining and to address the damage that it ... leave, selling their home to the mining industry, which then lets the property deteriorate. Strip mining and mountaintop removal, while not used extensively in Pennsylvania, are mining methods which destroy mountains, trees ...
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Moving the mountains: A special report on mountaintop removal mining - Roanoke.com
Videos The Battle of Blair Mountain The Battle over Blair Mountain Strip mining, by any other name How they're moving the mountains Companies strip town of homes in order to strip ... Mountaintop removal mining is reshaping the economy, culture and landscape of much of Appalachia. Lauded by mining companies as a safer, more efficient way to produce coal, this ramped-up strip mining has ...
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Freshwater Website: Informational Resources and Services (Glossary)
An area where groundwater flows naturally onto the land surface. storm sewer ...
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Moroccan Office Cherifin des Phosphates phosphate rock mine Mining Technology
Marrakesh, Benguérir is the newest of Morocco's four phosphate mining centres, having started production in 1979–80. Operated by Office Ché ... /y as beds C1 to C4 are accessed down-dip. The strip ratio currently averages 3.5:1. Six benches of overburden and ... 1997 was 22.8Mt. Post to: Delicious Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon mining-technology.com is a product of SPG Media Limited Copyright 2008 ...
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Ernest Henry Copper-Gold Mine, Queensland Mining Technology
MINING "Named after the prospector ``father'' of Cloncurry, 38km to the southwest, Ernest Henry is 160km from Mount Isa." The open pit is to be mined in eight stages with a strip ... 43m³ bucket joined the original Liebherr 996 hydraulic excavator (with a 30m³ bucket) when the mining rate was increased. These machines mainly load 14 Komatsu 218t-capacity trucks. Contractors initially did ...
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Mining Greenwash Compilation
Down-sizing of the mining industry; 3. A stop to environmentally damaging mining practices such as bulk and strip-mining; the use of cyanide mining; and sub-marine tailings disposal; 4. Reparations to affected communities and restitution for past damages; 5. A Convention on Corporate Accountability covering the mining ...
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