SURFMIN: Backfilling and grading
OSM
Library Number: 006 Date to NTIS: 11/17/89
NTIS
Accession No: PB90-147612 NTIS List Price: 15.00
CFR
Citation: 30 CFR 816.102
Title
of Report:
ALTERNATIVE
PRACTICES FOR OUTCROP BARRIERS (1980). 42 pp.
Performing
Organization Name and Address:
Dames & Moore, Park Ridge, IL 60068
Type of
Report: Final Report
Abstract:
Analysis
in study indicates for a given geometry artificial barriers are more
stable
than natural barriers. Artificial
barriers may have advantages over
natural
barriers in reducing acid mine drainage.
Economical removal of natural
barriers
will increase amount of coal recovered.
Based on the analysis of
material
properties, neither natural nor artificial barriers provide a
stabilizing
effect because strength properties of soil spoil or natural material
comprising
barriers are lower than those of mixed spoil material comprising the
main
spoil embankments.
Keywords:
BACKFILLING
& GRADING
OUTCROP
BARRIERS
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
Author(s): (unknown)
OSM
Library Number: 070 Date to NTIS: 11/17/ 9
NTIS
Accession No: PB90-148727 NTIS List Price: 31.00
CFR
Citation: 30 CFR 816.22, 816.71-816.74
Title
of Report:
STATE-OF-THE-ART
AND GUIDELINES FOR SURFACE COAL MINE OVERBURDEN SAMPLING AND
ANALYSIS.
PHASE 1 - SURVEY OF CURRENT METHODS AND PROCEDURES (1981). 256 pp.
Performing
Organization Name and Address:
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
80401
Type of
Report: Final Report
Abstract:
This
study provides recommendations on methods and procedures to use in the
premining
assessment of surface coal mine overburden.
Topics include:
overburden
drilling and sampling; parameters for predicting overburden
suitability
in reclamation and for evaluating potential water quality impact;
and
laboratory methods for analyzing overburden and procedure for greenhouse
testing
of overburden. This study is the first
phase of a two-part program
under
this contract. (Phase 2 - See NTIS
Accession No PB90-158403/AS - OSM
Library
Report No 071)
Keywords:
BACKFILLING
& GRADING
ANALYSIS
AND CORE SAMPLING
PREMINING
ASSESSMENT
Author(s): (Unknown)
OSM
Library Number: 070 Date to NTIS: 11/17/ 9
NTIS
Accession No: PB90-148727 NTIS List Price: 31.00
CFR
Citation: 30 CFR 816.22, 816.71-816.74
Title of
Report:
STATE-OF-THE-ART
AND GUIDELINES FOR SURFACE COAL MINE OVERBURDEN SAMPLING AND
ANALYSIS.
PHASE 1 - SURVEY OF CURRENT METHODS AND PROCEDURES (1981). 256 pp.
Performing
Organization Name and Address:
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
Type of
Report: Final Report
Abstract:
This
study provides recommendations on methods and procedures to use in the
premining
assessment of surface coal mine overburden.
Topics include:
overburden
drilling and sampling; parameters for predicting overburden
suitability
in reclamation and for evaluating potential water quality impact;
and
laboratory methods for analyzing overburden and procedure for greenhouse
testing
of overburden. This study is the first
phase of a two-part program
under
this contract. (Phase 2 - See NTIS
Accession No PB90-158403/AS - OSM
Library
Report No 071)
Keywords:
BACKFILLING
& GRADING
ANALYSIS
AND CORE SAMPLING
PREMINING
ASSESSMENT
Author(s): (Unknown)
OSM
Library Number: 139 Date to NTIS: 01/30/90
NTIS
Accession No: PB86-183472 NTIS List Price: 31.00
CFR
Citation: 30 CFR 816.133
Title
of Report:
HIGHWALL
ELIMINATION AND RETURN TO AOC (APPROXIMATE ORIGINAL CONTOURS) AS
REQUIRED
IN SMCRA OF 1977 (1984). 200 pp. (National
Academy Press, Washington,
DC,
Library of Congress Catalog No. 84-60461, International Standard Book No.
0-309-03448-5)
Performing
Organization Name and Address:
National Academy of Sciences, Washington,
DC 20418
Type of
Report: Final Report
Abstract:
Committee
realized that restoration of approximate original contours (AOC) and
elimination
of highwalls for surface and underground mines cannot be separated
from
postmining uses of restored land. This was
especially evident for leaving
final-cut
lakes and planning for mountaintop removal in steep terrain of east
coastal
region. In these cases variation from
restoration to AOC is based on
creating
ecological sound land forms and new land uses.
Report discusses
appropriate
methods for achieving agreement on postmining land uses.
Keywords:
BACKFILLING
& GRADING
HIGHWALL
REMOVAL
AOC
RESTORATION
Author(s): (Unknown)
OSM
Library Number: 179 Date to NTIS: 12/14/89
NTIS
Accession No: PB90-153107/AS NTIS Li t Price: 23.00
CFR
Citation: 30 CFR 816.102
Title
of Report:
MANUAL
FOR BACKFILLING AND GRADING OF SURFACE COAL MINING AREAS (1983). 134 pp.
Performing
Organization Name and Address:
Skelly and Loy Engineers, Harrisburg, PA
17110
Type of
Report: Manual
Abstract:
Manual
provides aid in defining backfilling and grading (B&G) requirements and
options
available for compliance. B&G
manual provides quick references to
techniques
being used across the country for B&G and specific requirements for
procedures
as mandated by law. Initial sections
are followed by sections which
examine
mining techniques prevalent throughout the country and special B&G
requirements
are warranted by such techniques. Each mining
technique is
prefaced
by description of the physiographic conditions and equipment types
which
characterizes it.
Keywords:
BACKFILLING
& GRADING
TECHNICAL
HANDBOOK
Author(s): (Unknown)
OSM
Library Number: 185 Date to NTIS: 11/17/89
NTIS
Accession No: PB90-147299 NTIS List Price: 15.00
CFR
Citation: 30 CFR 816.102
Title
of Report:
EVALUATION
OF HIGHWALL PROBLEMS (1982). 38 pp.
Performing
Organization Name and Address:
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
47907
Type of
Report: Final Report
Abstract:
The
Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-87) mandates
elimination
of permanent highwalls. Study was
undertaken to determine if design
procedures
available would assure stability of permanent highwalls of rock.
Search
of 1800 references were related which resulted in 118 directly relevant
to
highwall problem. The available
theories and application of theory to actual
performance
were evaluated. Some design procedures
have had satisfactory
results
but tend to be site specific. It is
recommended that permanent
highwalls
be allowed providing specific substantiating data approved by a peer
review
group.
Keywords:
BACKFILLING
& GRADING
HIGHWALL
STABILITY LITERATURE SEARCH
Author(s):
Altschaefel,
A.G., Judd, W.R.
OSM
Library Number: 529 Date to NTIS: 01/17/90
NTIS
Accession No: PB90-163718/AS NTIS List Price: 17.00
CFR
Citation: 30 CFR 816.102
Title
of Report:
DETERMINATION
OF DRAINAGE DENSITY FOR SURFACE MINE RECLAMATION IN THE WESTERN U.
S.
(1985). 59 pp.
Performing
Organization Name and Address:
Water Engineering & Technology, Inc.
Ft. Collins, CO 80521
Type of
Report: Final Report
Abstract:
Report
discusses quantitative geomorphic data required for stable landform
construction. Drainage density is an extremely important
characteristic of
landscape
that reflects interaction between eroding forces and erodibility of an
area. There is a characteristic drainage density
for each location, and when
this is
identified, it should be used in reclamation design. Drainage density
was
measured for 69 undisturbed drainage basins near the Dave Johnston and Jim
Bridger
coal mines (WY) and McKinley coal mine (NM). In addition, the report
includes
extensive references for this study.
Keywords:
BACKFILLING
& GRADING
GEOMORPHIC
GUIDELINES
BASIN
MORPHOMETRY
Author(s):
Gregory,
Daniel I.
Schumm,
Stanley A.
Watson,
Chester C.