SurfMin: revegitation

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:   029             Date to NTIS:   12/21/89

NTIS Accession No:   PB90-157801/AS   NTIS List Price:   17.00

CFR Citation:   30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of report:

 

EFFECTS OF CONTROLLED OVERBURDEN PLACEMENT ON MINE SOIL PROPERTIES AND THE

GROWTH OF LOBLOLLY PINE (1984).  78 pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA     

24061

 

Type of Report:   Amended Final Report

 

Abstract:

 

Ultimate goal of successful revegetation efforts is establishment of a

permanent, self-sustaining plant community that supports postmining land use. 

This, in turn, is dependent on establishment of efficient nutrient cycles within

the mine soil-plant system.  Major goal of this research effort over the next

several years will be careful documentation of the N, P and K cycles in these

systems.  This information, integrated with our findings regarding effects of

rock type and surface treatments on mine soil genesis and plant growth, will be

an invaluable tool for the improvement of reclamation success in Southern

Appalachia.

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

OVERBURDEN ANALYSIS

SOIL SUBSTITUTE

 

Author(s):

 

Amos, D. F.

Burger, James A. 

Daniels, W. Lee

 

 

OSM Library Number:   079             Date to NTIS:   12/29/89

NTIS Accession No:   PB90-158411/AS   NTIS List Price:   17.00

CFR Citation:   30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

TECHNICAL GUIDES ON USE OF REFERENCE AREAS AND TECHNICAL STANDARDS FOR

EVALUATING SURFACE MINE REVEGETATION IN OSM REGIONS I & II (1981). 82 pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, TN 37828

 

Type of Report:   Final Report

 

Abstract:

 

Prepared to assist mine operators and regulatory authorities in evaluating

success of reclamation vegetation in Appalachian coal fields.  Neither interim

nor permanent regs specified methods for evaluating revegetation success but

left discretion to OSM and states.  Availability of published standards will

provide for uniform measurement of revegetation success and permit the use of

technical standards instead of reference areas in assessing ground cover and

productivity.  Section 1:  Pastureland and other agronomy/horticulture

crops/postmining land uses.  Section 2:  Consideration for use of reference area

and technical standards.  Section 3:  Systematic evaluation of revegetation.

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

REFERENCE AREAS

ASSESSING GROUND COVER

 

Author(s)

 

Farmer, Jr., Robert E.

Rennie, John C.

Scanlon III, David H. 

Zarger, Thomas G.

 

 

OSM Library Number:   108             Date to NTIS:   11/27/89

NTIS Accession No:   PB90-153602      NTIS List Price:   15.00

CFR Citation:   30 CFR 816.111

 

Title of Report:

 

ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF OSM AGRONOMIC AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES REGS - REVEGETATION

(1981). 38 pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     Hittman Associates, Inc., Columbia, MD 21045

 

Type of Report:   Final Report

 

Abstract:

 

This report evaluates the cost increments related to current and proposed

regulations and cost of revegetation pertaining to Sec.  816.11 of the current

and proposed regulations and pre-OSM state regulations.  The role of small

entities in regional strip coal production is included in this report.  In

addition, five general approaches to assessing the economic impacts of

compliance with the proposed rulemaking changes are summarized.

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

AGRONOMIC REGS

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES REGS

 

Author(s):  (Unknown)

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  234                   Date to NTIS:  12/07/90

NTIS Accession No:  NONE                   NTIS List Price:   0.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

RECLAMATION OF MINED LANDS IN THE WESTERN COAL REGION (1983). 57 pp. 

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     USDOI-U. S. Geological Survey, Alexandria, VA 22304

 

Type of Report:  Final Report - Geological Survey Circular 872.

 

Abstract:

 

Report provides readers from Federal, state, local governments and general

public with description of mining process and reclamation in coalfields of 7

western states with environmental problems.  Includes photos that illustrate

various aspects of the reclamation process and a table that presents an overview

of the reclamation.  Results of examinations were not used to derive

quantitative predictions of outcome of reclamation work but to determine general

requirements for revegetation success.

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

RECLAMATION

 

Author(s):

 

Allingham, John W., U.S. Geological Survey

Foster, Lee, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

Larsen, Daniel M., U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

Lintner, Stephen F., U.S. Geological Survey

McWreath III, Harry C., U.S. Dept.  of Agriculture

Narten, Perry F., U.S. Geological Survey

 

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  266                   Date to NTIS:  01/29/90

NTIS Accession No:  PB90-167685/AS         NTIS List Price:  31.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

EVALUATION OF AVAILABLE VEGETATION DATA AND SAMPLING PROCEDURES FOR PRE- AND

POST-MINING VEGETATION ASSESSMENTS IN NORTH DAKOTA - PT 1 (1984). 212 pp.

(Colorado State University, Ft. Collins CO/State University of New York,

Syracuse NY).

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     University of North Dakota (Mining/Minerals), Bismarck, ND 58501.

 

Type of Report:  Part 1:  Ecological & Sampling Considerations

 

Abstract:

 

Report summarizes data from numerous studies conducted in past 50 years or more

in grassland region of ND, including western Canadian provinces.  Evaluative

summaries present potential of, and extent of variation in, different range

types in cover, yield, seasonality, and species diversity as it is influenced by

year to year changes in climatic conditions, and under the influence of such

management practices as fertilizing, haying, mowing, grazing, etc.  These

evaluative summaries should only be used as guides, for mining conditions are

site-specific.

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

SAMPLING PROCEDURES

VEGETATION DATA

 

Author(s):

 

Burgess, Robert L.

Van Dyne, George M.

Wali, Mohan K.

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  267                   Date to NTIS:  01/30/90

NTIS Accession No:  PB90-194259/AS         NTIS List Price:  31.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

EVALUATION OF AVAILABLE VEGETATION DATA AND SAMPLING PROCEDURES FOR PRE- AND

POST-MINING VEGETATION ASSESSMENTS IN NORTH DAKOTA - PT 2 (1984). 212 pp.

(Colorado State University, Ft. Collins CO/University of North Dakota, Grand

Forks, ND).

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     University of North Dakota (Mining/Minerals), Bismarck, ND 58501.

 

Type of Report:  Part 2:  Yield and Composition of Vegetation

 

Abstract:

 

Report assesses feasibility of developing standards for monitoring success of

vegetative restoration of croplands and rangelands on surface-coal mined lands

in North Dakota.  Vegetative parameters were considered, concerning productivity

(yield) of croplands and productivity (yield), cover, and composition of

rangelands.  Therefore, wide ranging ND data sets are potentially suitable as

standards were sought, identified, assembled, described, and assessed for

technical fitness for providing revegetation success standards.  Information

from other agencies (SCS, SRS, ASCS) was obtained, tabulated, and evaluated.

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

SAMPLING PROCEDURES

VEGETATION DATA

 

Author(s):

 

Hollingsworth II, Robert L.

Nicholson, Stuart A.

Van Dyne, George M.

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  268                   Date to NTIS:  01/29/90

NTIS Accession No:  PB90-194267/AS         NTIS List Price:  31.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

EVALUATION OF AVAILABLE VEGETATION DATA AND SAMPLING PROCEDURES FOR THE

DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDELINES FOR PRE- AND POST-MINING VEGETATION ASSESSMENTS IN ND

- PT 3 (1984). 270 pp. (Colorado State University/State University of New York).

 

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     University of North Dakota (Mining/Minerals), Bismarck, ND 58501.

 

Type of Report:  Part 3:  Measurement of Standing Crop Dynamics

 

Abstract:

 

Methods of estimating production in ND rangeland communities were reasonably

accurate, not overly complex, and maximally efficient, time- and costwise. 

Study involved 2 distinct phases:  1) review of literature data on productivity

in native grassland communities of ND and 2) field studies involving periodic

harvests of aboveground-only biomass at 4 ND sites and estimation of aboveground

production by commonly used approaches -- total peak yield, sum of species and

group peak yields, and regression analysis.  The major findings are presented in

this report.

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

SAMPLING PROCEDURES

AVAILABLE VEGETATION DATA

 

Author(s):

 

Nicholson, Stuart A.

Van Dyne, David M.

Van Dyne, George M.

Wali, Mohan K.

 

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  311                   Date to NTIS:  01/05/90

NTIS Accession No:  PB90-148982/AS         NTIS List Price:  31.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

SURFACE MINE RECLAMATION PLANT MATERIALS STUDIES (1984). 240 pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20013.

 

Type of Report:  Comprehensive Report

 

Abstract:

 

Study was performed to identify which plants were best suited for mine spoil

reclamation.  13 trees and shrub species appeared to have adapted to non-sodic

glacial till mine spoil where competition was controlled.  The highest growth

and survival rates for most species were identified on a clean cultivated level

site.  No significant benefit from leveling was found where competition was not

controlled.  While performance improved on tops-level site over wave-like and

check sites, the differences between 3 treatments were minor.  Few deciduous

species tolerate grass and weed competition.

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

DIVERSITY OF PLANT MATERIALS

ARID AND SEMI-ARID

 

Author(s):  (Unknown)

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  312                   Date to NTIS:  04/09/90

NTIS Accession No:  (Unknown)              NTIS List Price:  0.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANT CENTER (1975-1984) [VEGETATION OF MINE SPOILS] (1985). 89

pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Meeker, CO 81641.

 

Type of Report:  Summary Report

 

Abstract:

 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement participation in this study

commenced in late 1979.  This document provides a summary report on accelerated

testing of plant materials and cultural techniques utilized for mined land

reclamation.  (This project was initiated by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil

Conservation Service, in 1975).

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

SEED AND PLANT TECHNIQUES

 

Author(s):  (Unknown)

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  342                   Date to NTIS:  03/29/90

NTIS Accession No:  PB90-195272/AS         NTIS List Price:  23.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

UPPER COLORADO ENVIRONMENTAL PLANT CENTER SEMI-ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT TO OSM

[USDOI-OSM] (JUNE - DECEMBER 1983). 109 pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Denver, CO 80202.

 

Type of Report:  Semi-Annual Report (June-December 1983)

 

Abstract:

 

During this reporting period 33 shrubs, 77 forbes, and 61 grasses were

accessioned.  Cultural and management techniques were developed to maintain

vegetative cover on mine spoils.  Harvesting, processing, and planting seed were

difficult to achieve with conventional equipment which required development and

modification.  Nine field planting projects have been summarized to provide

field information relative to surface mine lands (see Attachment III entitled: 

Report on Plant Materials in Field Plant).

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

PLANT MATERIALS STUDY

 

Author(s):

 

Stranathan, Sam E.

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  376                   Date to NTIS:  12/21/89

NTIS Accession No:  PB90-161373/AS         NTIS List Price:  15.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

DROUGHT STRESS METABOLITES OF ORYZOPSIS HYMENOIDES AND SPOROBOLUS CRYPTANDRUS

(Undated). 46 pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Albuquerque, NM 87106.

 

Type of Report:  Final Report

 

Abstract:

 

Desert grasses (oryzopsis hymenoides/sporobolus cryptandrus) were subjected to 2

successive water deficit periods by withholding irrigation.  0. hymenoides did

not adjust osmotically but s. cryptandrus exhibited 4 bars of osmotic adjustment

in response to water stress.  Proline accumulation in response to water stress

was identified in both species despite the lack of osmotic adjustment in 0. 

hymenoides.  In addition, the accumulation of amino acids or quarternary

ammonium contributed to osmotic adjustment was determined.

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

NATIVE GRASSES

PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS

 

Author(s):  (Unknown)

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  546                        Date to NTIS:  01/11/90

NTIS Accession No:  PB-276057                   NTIS List Price:  17.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report: 

 

THE PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK (VOL I) A USER' S GUIDE (1978).

USDOI-FWS/OBS-77/38 (1978). 57 pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address: 

 

     U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Fort Collins, CO 80526

 

Type of Report:  Volume 1

 

Abstract: 

 

Vol. 1 describes the basic philosophy of the Plant Information Network (PIN),

its organization, descriptors, and definitions for descriptors.  In addition, it

includes the basic language definition users should know to query PIN and some

very simple examples of queries.  (NOTE:  AS OF 6/87, PIN HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND

CURRENTLY IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR USE.)

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK

RECLAMATION

 

Author(s):

 

Seems, Phillip L.

Vories, Kimery C.

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  547                        Date to NTIS:  01/11/90

NTIS Accession No:  PB-276058                   NTIS List Price:  17.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

THE PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK (VOL II) - RECLAMATION AND PIN IN NORTHWEST

COLORADO (1977). 67 pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address: 

 

     U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Fort Collins, CO 80526

 

Type of Report:  Volume 2

 

Abstract:

 

Vol. 2 provides synopsis of current legal requirements, land use planning,

environmental assessment, revegetation methods, and available plant material

information relating to use of Plant Information Network (PIN) as a reclamation

tool in northwest Colorado.  Report provides examples from Colorado of queries

processed by PIN, a computer information system of plant attributes use and

interpretation of queries.  (NOTE:  AS OF 6/87, PIN HAS BEEN ARCHIVE AND

CURRENTLY IS NOT IN USE.)

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK

RECLAMATION

 

Author(s):

 

Seems, Phillip L.

Vories, Kimery C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  548                        Date to NTIS:  01/11/90

NTIS Accession No:  PB-276059                   NTIS List Price:  17.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

THE PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK (VOL III) - RECLAMATION AND PIN IN THE POWDER

RIVER BASIN OF MONTANA & WYOMING (1977). 61 pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Fort Collins, CO 80526

 

Type of Report:  Volume 3

 

Abstract: 

 

Vol. 3 provides synopsis of current legal requirements, land use planning,

environmental assessment, revegetation methods, and available plant material

information relating to use of Plant Information Network (PIN) as a reclamation

tool in the River Basin of Montana and Wyoming.  Report provides examples of

queries processed by PIN, a network information system of plant attributes, and

description of system's use and interpretation of queries.  (NOTE:  AS OF 6/87, 

PIN HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND CURRENTLY IS NOT IN USE.)

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK

RECLAMATION

 

Author(s): 

 

Seems, Phillip L.

Vories, Kimery C.

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  549                        Date to NTIS:  01/11/90

NTIS Accession No:  PB-276060                   NTIS List Price:  17.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

THE PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK (VOL IV) - SUBJECT GUIDE AND ANNOTATED

BIBLIOGRAPHY TO SELECTED LITERATURE ON RECLAMATION AND REHABILITATION IN THE

WESTERN U. S. (1977). 63 pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address: 

 

     U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Fort Collins, CO 80526

 

Type of Report:  Volume 4

 

Abstract:

 

Vol. 4 provides a subject guide and selected, annotated bibliography on land

reclamation and rehabilitation in the western U.S.  Volume includes 368

references, 36 major headings and appropriate subheadings within major headings.

 Article numbers in the subject index are arranged in order of subjective

determination of the articles importance to the subject area.  (NOTE:  AS OF

6/87, PIN NETWORK HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND CURRENTLY IS NOT IN USE.)

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK

RECLAMATION

 

Author(s):

 

Seems, Phillip L.

Vories, Kimery C.

 

 

 

 

 

OSM Library Number:  556                        Date to NTIS:  02/06/90

NTIS Accession No:  PB90-167339/AS              NTIS List Price:  23.00

CFR Citation:  30 CFR 816.111-816.116

 

Title of Report:

 

EFFECTS OF CONTROLLED OVERBURDEN PLACEMENT ON MINE SPOIL PROPERTIES,

REVEGETATION, AND GROWTH OF PITCH X LOBLOLLY PINE HYBRID SEEDLINGS AS

DEMONSTRATED ON AN ABANDONED STRIP BENCH (1986). 116 pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

     Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg,

VA 24061

 

Type of Report:  Final Report

 

Abstract: 

 

Summarizes findings from Phase 2 of Controlled Overburden Placement Experiment. 

Data reported pertain primarily to 2nd and 3rd growing seasons (1983/1984).

Composed of 2 parts:  rock mix experiments and surface treatment experiments. 

Rock mix experiments (5 spoil mixes) include pure sandstone (SS). 2:1 SS:SiS,

1:2 SS:SiS, and pure siltstone (SiS).  Surface treatment experiment uses 2:1

SS:SiS rock mix with a fertilizer control, limed (7.8 Mg/ha) & fertilizer

topsoil treatment with depth of 30 cm, a 112 Mg/ha sawdust with slow release

N-fertilizer treatment, 4 municipal sewage sludge applications with KY-31 tall

fescue (5/1982).

 

Keywords:

 

REVEGETATION

OVERBURDEN ANALYSIS

SOIL SUBSTITUTE

 

Author(s):

 

Burger, James A.

Daniels, W.  Lee

Moss, Stuart

Roberts, Jesse

 

 

NTIS Accession No:                              NTIS List Price:

 

Title of Report:

 

"DECADES LATER: A TIME FOR REASSESSMENT." 12TH ANNUAL MEETING (June 1995) Volume

II.  414pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation, 21 Grandview      Drive,

Princeton, WV 24740

 

Type of Report:    Conference Proceedings

 

Abstract:

 

The conference proceedings addressed the following issues: Eastern China and

abandoned mine reclamation; revegetation experimentation; bactericide treated

reclaimed mine land; deep mine back filling; earthen structures; marine

environment and metal release of tailings; subaqueous closure of tailings

disposal; geochemical drainage characterization; sulfate generation and flow;

permafrost, geochemistry, hydrology, and metal-sulfide tailing impoundment; high

altitude tailings reclamation; mine dump mineral reactions; sulfate-reducing

bacteria and arsenic and chromium behavior; watershed, landform stability, and

computer model assessment; observational approach to open pit mine slopes; W.

Australian national parks and exploration access; W. Australian marine reserve

petroleum and mineral exploration; reconstructed soil measurement; South African

collieries closing problems; revegetation treatability study; geochemical

engineering  and acid rock drainage; plant growth and heap leach materials;

digestion method and siderite; plant communities on iron tailings; lime slurry,

tailings, and wet closure; revegetation of streambank tailings; hydrogeologic

characterization and acid minespoil; seedling failure in Atriplex

(Chenopodiaceae); genetic diversity and Atriplex; Mancos saltbush population

trends; transplanting Western snowberry (Symphoricarpos occidentalis Hook.);

cultural methods and Sagebrush establishment; Big Sage (Artemisia tridentata

var.  wyomingensis) seedling survival; municipal reclamation tree and shrub

enrichment; and Sagebrush and Rubber Rabbitbrush

 on disturbed sites.

 

 

Keyword(s):

Abandoned mine reclamation

Revegetation

Tailings disposal

Landform stability

Acid rock drainage

Heap leach

 

Author(s):

Various

 

 

 NTIS Accession No:                              NTIS List Price:

 

Title of Report:

 

INT'L LAND RECLAMATION & MINE DRAINAGE CONFERENCE & THIRD INT=L CONFERENCE ON

THE ABATEMENT OF ACIDIC DRAINAGE.  THE GIBRALTAR NORTH PROJECT ASSESSING ACID

ROCK DRAINAGE (April 1994) 

 

 

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Title of Report:

 

RECLAMATION OF MINE SOIL USING BLEACHED, PRIMARY PAPERMILL SLUDGE-GREENHOUSE

STUDY (August 1990) 160pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

 

Type of Report:    M.S. Thesis, Agronomy.

 

Abstract:

 

A greenhouse study was conducted to determine the effects of papermill sludge on

the establishment, yield and elemental concentrations of subterranean clover and

bermudagrass grown on mine soil treated with fertilizer, sludge (56, 112 and 224

Mg/ha), lime, or fertilizer with each sludge rate.  These were planted to clover

from November 1987 - April 1988, and then to bermudagrass through September

1988.

Fertilizer was found necessary to revegetate mine soil with clover and

bermudagrass.  Sludge significantly (a=5%) increased yields in the second

harvest of clover and in the last two harvests of bermudagrass with maximum

yield at 112 Mg/ha of sludge.  Biological N2-fixation and native N did not raise

N concentration in clover within the critical values.  Fertilizer improved N

uptake, presumably due to better vegetative growth.  Nitrogen concentrations in

bermudagrass remained below the normal levels (2.0-2.5%) in all treatments.  Dry

matter yields of clover and P within the critical levels (0.1-0.2%) in most

cases while those of bermudagrass were mostly below the critical levels, even

though no visual deficiency symptoms were observed.  Excessive accumulations of

K, Ca, Mg, S.  Fe, Cu, Zn, Al and Na were observed in non-fertilized subclover. 

Bermudagrass was oberved to be predominantly high in Mg, Zn, Mn and Cu and low

in K and S.

Fertilizer (N, P and K) application was needed to build-up the nutrient status

of the soil and to produce high-yield vegetation.  Soil pH and CEC were

favorably affected by sludge application.  Soil pH changed from 5.5 (starting

mine soil) to 7.0 in the fertilized soil and to 7.6 in the non-fertilized soil

with increasing amounts of sludge up to 224 Mg/ha.  The CEC went up from 2.78 to

4.97 and 3.94 in the fertilized and non-fertilized soil, respectively. 

Microbiological assay did not show any significant trends in relation to the

treatments.

 

Keywords:

Groundcover

Papermill sludge

Revegetation

Clover and bermudagrass

 

Author(s)

Marilou S.  Del Rosario

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Title of Report:

 

THE 1990 MINING AND RECLAMATION CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION. VOLUME II (APRIL

23-26, 1990) 290pp.

 

Performing Organization Name and Address:

 

American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation, 21 Grandview      Drive,

Princeton, WV 24740.

 

Type of Report:    Proceedings.

 

Abstract:

 

The proceedings covered the following topics: RESTORATION OF FORESTED WETLANDS:

development and summary of MiST: a classification system. WETLANDS - GENERAL:

forested wetland reclamation; geologic history of a wetland and wetland

construction on mine lands; volunteer Cattail wetlands on drainage quality;

removal of iron and manganese from acid mine drainage; mine drainage treatment

and biological sulfate reduction; diversity patterns of invertebrate fauna;

wildlife use of mitigated wetlands. WETLANDS - U.S. BUREAU OF MINES: sizing and

performance; design and treatment effectiveness; bacterial sulfate reduction;

metal removal efficiencies; organic matter additions for the neutralization of

acid mine drainage. REVEGETATION - GENERAL: soil sterilant contaminated soils;

comparisons of different mulches, lime and fertilizer applications;

establishment of native plant species; recolonization of Vesicular-Arbuscular

Mycorrhizae; the importance of VAM Fungi; retardation of pyrite oxidation.

ABANDONED MINE LAND - GENERAL: experiments to detect mine cavities; highwall

stability analysis; using a magnetometer for investigating underground coal mine

fires, burning coal, refuse banks, and for locating AMD source areas on surface

mines; locating and abating sources of acid mine drainage; distribution and

characteristics of outcrop fires in horizontal strata; fire diagnostic

simulation for burning coal waste banks; relative self-heating tendencies of

coal, carbonaceous shales and coal refuse. REVEGETATION - AML: tree species

composition, canopy coverage, and importance; revegetation of abandoned mine

lands with containerized seedlings and soil amendments; an evaluation of lime

requirements tests on pyritic minesoils; survival and growth of Bigtooth Aspen

on acidic surface-mine soils as influenced by Pisolithus tinctorius and nitrogen

and phosphorus fertilization; municipal sludge on abandoned mine land;

stimulation of Aspen establishment.

 

Keyword(s):

Forest wetlands

Revegetation

abandoned mines

Author(s):

Various