North American environmental standards are currently being exported around the world. Consequently, this handbook will be of prime interest in countries that are now coming to terms with mining environmentalism. It should benefit working engineers and environmentalists, manufacturers, legislators, regulators, financiers and journalists. It has been selected as a university textbook. Finally, it will be an indispensable reference during serious discussions about mining environmentalism.

Contents: Development of the Mine Environmental Precept and Its Current Political Status; The Legal Bases of Federal Environmental Control of Mining; Environmental Control at the State Level; Environmental Effects of Mining; Technologies for Environmental Protection; Environmental Permitting; Systems Design for Site Specific Environmental Protection; Operations Environmental Management; Solution Mining and In-Situ Leaching; Placer or Alluvial Mining; Coal; Acid Mine Drainage and Other Mining-Influenced Waters (MIW); Uses of Mines as Landfills and Repositories; Economic Impact of Current Environmental Regulations on Mining; Financial Assurances for Corrective Actions, Closure and Post Closure; International Environmental Control of Mining; Environmental Case Studies from the Hard Rock Industry; Current and Projected Issues; Directory of State Regulatory Agencies; Glossary; Index.

Readership: Engineers, environmentalists and geologists.  less