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Mountaintop Mining: Background & Issues (Mining Engineering- Research and Technology)

Economic Geology

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Mountaintop removal mining involves removing the top of a mountain in order to recover the coal seams contained there. It creates an immense quantity of excess spoil (dirt and rock that previously composed the mountaintop), which is typically placed in valley fills on the sides of the former mountains, burying streams that flow through the valleys. Critics say that, as a result of valley fills, stream water quality and the aquatic wildlife habitat that streams support are destroyed by tons of rocks and dirt. The mining industry argues that mountaintop mining is essential to conducting surface coal mining in the Appalachian region and that surface coal mining would not be economically feasible there if producers were restricted from using valleys for the disposal of mining overburden. This book provides background on regulatory requirements, controversies and legal challenges to mountaintop mining.

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Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1617289361
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Earth Sciences > Geology > Economic Geology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 February 2011
Listed Since: 30 August 2010

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