Readings and References

Frodeman R., 2003.  Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground Between Philosophy and the Earth Sciences.  State University of New York Press, Ithaca, New York.

General Accounting Office, 1988. Federal Land Management: An Assessment of Hardrock Mining Damage. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Hudson T.L., Fox F.D.,  and  Plumlee G. S., 1999.  Metal Mining and the Environment. American Geological Institute, Alexandria, VA.

Smith D.A., 1993. Mining America: The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980. University of Colorado Press, Niwot, CO.

Stiller D.M., 2000. Wounding the West: Montana, Mining, and the Environment. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska.

U.S. Forest Service, 1993. Acid Drainage from Mines on the National Forests. U.S. Forest Service Program Aid 1505.

Wilkinson C.F., 1992. Crossing the Next Meridian; Land, Water, and the Future of the West. Island Press, Washington, DC.

Younger P.L., Banwart S.A., and Hedin R.S., 2002.  Mine Water: Hydrology, Pollution, and Remediation. Kluwer Academic Publishers, London.

Cobb H.S., 1988. Prospecting Our Past: Gold, Silver, and Tungsten Mills of Boulder County.  The Book Lode, Boulder, CO.

Fossett F., 1999.  Colorado Mines 1859 - 1879 Boulder and Gilpin Counties. Gold Dirt Press, Colorado Springs, CO.  

Francaviglia R.V., 1991. Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts.  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City.

Paul R.W., 1963. Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880.  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.

Pettem S., 1980.  Red Rocks to Riches: Gold Mining in Boulder County, Then and Now. Stonehenge Books, Boulder, Colorado.

Smith D.A., 1993. Mining America: The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980.  University Press of Colorado, Niwot, Colorado.

Wolle M.S., 1993.  Timberline Tailings: Tales of Colorado's Ghost Towns and Mining Camps. Swallow Press, Athens, Ohio.

Wyman M., 1979.  Hard Rock Epic: Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860-1910. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

Young O.E., Jr., 1970.  Western Mining: An Informal Account of Precious-Metals Prospecting, Placering, Lode Mining, and Milling on the American Frontier from Spanish Times to 1893.  University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma.

McElfish J.M. Jr.,  Bernstein T.,  Bass S. P., and Sheldon E., 1996.  Hard Rock Mining: State Approaches to Environmental Protection.  Environmental Law Institute, Washington, DC.

National Research Council, 1999.  Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands.  National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

Neff J.L., 1994.  The Miners Law - Part I.  California Geology (November - December 1994), 152-157.

Neff J.L., 1995.  The Miners Law - Part II.  California Geology (January-February 1995), 10-21.

mining technology

Stout K.S., 1976.  Mine methods and equipment.  In Handbook for Small Mining Enterprises, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 99, Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology.

Zucker G.L. and Hassan E.E.-S., 1982.  A Guide to Mineral Processing, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 85, Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology.

acid mine drainage and its effects

Elder J.F., 1988.  Metal Biogeochemistry in Surface-Water Systems - A Review of Principles and Concepts. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1013.

Filipek L.H. and Plumlee G.S., 1999. The Environmental Geochemistry of Mineral Deposits. Part B: Case Studies and Research Topics. Reviews in Economic Geology, Volume 6B, Society of Economic Geologists, Littleton, CO.

Moore J.N., S.N. Luoma, and D. Peters, 1991.  Downstream effects of mine effluent on an intermontane riparian system.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 48(2), 225-230.

Plumlee G.S. and Logsdon M.J., 1999.  The Environmental Geochemistry of Mineral Deposits. Part A: Processes, Techniques, and Health Issues. Reviews in Economic Geology, Volume 6A, Society of Economic Geologists, Littleton, CO.

remediation technology -- passive

Dollhopf D.J., et al., 1988.  Hydrogeochemical, Vegetational and Microbiological Effects of a Natural and a Constructed Wetland on the Control of Acid Mine Drainage.  Reclamation Research Publication 88-04, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.

Ford K.L., 2003. Passive treatment systems for acid mine drainage. Technical Note 409, Bureau of Land Management, 13 pp.

Hedin R.S., Nairn R.W., and Kleinmann R.L.P., 1994. Passive treatment of polluted coal mine drainage. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9389, U.S. Dept. of Interior, 35 pp.

Kemp P.  and Griffiths J., 1999.  Quaking Houses -- Art, Science and the Community: A Collaborative Approach to Water Pollution. Jon Carpenter Publishers, Charlbury, England.  

Skousen J., 2000. Overview of passive systems for treating acid mine drainage. In Reclamation of Drastically Disturbed Lands (eds. Barnhisel R.I., Darmody R.G., and Daniels W.L.), American Society of Agronomy.

Younger P.L., Banwart S.A., and Hedin R.S., 2002.  Mine Water: Hydrology, Pollution, and Remediation. Kluwer Academic Publishers, London.

environmental toxicology

Landis W.G. and Yu M.-H., 1999.  Introduction to Environmental Toxicology: Impacts of Chemical Upon Ecological Systems, 2nd ed., Lewis Publishers.

Rand G.M. (ed.), 1995. Fundamentals of Aquatic Toxicology: Effects, Environmental Fate, and Risk Assessment, 2nd ed., Taylor and Francis.

Klaasen C.D. (ed.), 2001.  Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poison. McGraw-Hill.

Casarett L.J., Klaasen C.D., Watkins J.B. III, Streibel B.J. (eds.), 2003.  Casarett & Doull's Essentials of Toxicology.  McGraw-Hill.