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Mountaintop Removal Mining – A Report to Congress

January 26th, 2010 Posted in Geology.com

“Surface coal mining in the mountainous areas of Appalachia—often called “mountaintop mining”—generates controversy, in part because of its scale and the post-mining appearance of the land. Yet there is limited public access to information on the size, location, and life span of these operations, or on how the land can be expected to look afterward.


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Mountaintop Removal Mining – A Report to Congress

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