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Reduce, reuse, recycle

Acid mine drainage has become an opportunity for water reclamation and reuse, particularly with less contaminated mines that have a higher pH and lower dissolved iron levels. Jeff Easton reports

Jeff Easton
Reduce, reuse, recycle

Acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal and mineral mining operations is a difficult and costly problem. The sheer volume of AMD sites and the contaminants associated with them has been described as the largest...

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