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Newsletter Spring 2001

General news: This newsletter will bring you up to speed on what ADTI-MMS has been up to recently. ADTI-MMS met in Reno in November after the GSA meeting and met in Denver in early March after the SME meeting. The items below are some of the projects ADTI-MMS has been working on.

Website progress: ADTI-MMS currently has a website hosted by the Bureau of Land Management's Butte Field office. We are in the final stages of moving the website to the University of Nevada-Reno, which we hope will provide us with some additional flexibility, as we hope to use the website for review of draft documents. We will have news on the website changes in the very near future. Kim Lapakko has completed the ADTI-MMS annual report and it should be posted on the web soon.

Workbook progress: We have made good progress on some of our workbooks! The Introductory Chapter and the Mitigation Chapter are both in draft form and ready for review. Progress continues to be made on several of the other workbooks. The standardization of the Meteoric Water Mobility Procedure (MWMP) is moving ahead through ASTM and the Prediction Committee is monitoring progress. Work was carried out in eight laboratories coordinated through the Nevada Mining Association and the solutions were assayed by the USGS, Denver, laboratory. Statistics are being reviewed by the ASTM E-01 Committee, where it will be balloted. In November, we added a Pit Lake Workgroup. Lisa Shevenell from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology heads up this group and has distributed an annotated bibliography to the workgroup for comments and additions. Draft documents on pit lake sampling and classification are in progress.

Funding: As usual we continue dialing for dollars. We have several irons in the fire including a grant proposal in to EPA, as well as continued funding possibilities with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, BLM, and possible coordination with the International Network for Acid Prevention (INAP) on Pit Lake issues. We are working with BLM on possible presentation of a revised Acid Rock Drainage satellite learning presentation, as well as possible evaluation of ARD treatment alternatives.

Upcoming ADTI events:

• June, 2001: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers RAMS Workshop, Denver, CO (?)
• Oct-Nov, 2001: BLM Acid Rock Drainage Satellite presentation, Phoenix, AZ
• February, 2002: SME, Phoenix, ADTI will be actively involved in this program
• February, 2003: SME, Cincinnati, ADTI will be actively involved in this program

Other Calendar Items

Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America: April 9-11, 2001; Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, CA; Contact -- Peter Weigand 818-677-2564, peter.weigand@csun.edu;

Mine Design, Operations and Closure Conference, 2001: April 8-11, 2001 Grouse Mountain Lodge, Whitefish, Montana, Susie Anderson 406-496-4311

Amer. Soc. for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Annual Conference: April 23-27, 2001; St. Louis, MO;

Integrated Mining and Land Reclamation Planning: April 23-27, 2001; The Flamingo Hotel, Reno, NV; Contact -- Philip Bennett 608-263-4705.

II International Congress of Prospectors and Explorationists: April 24-27, 2001; Lima, Peru; Contact -- proexplo@iimp.org.pe;

Rocky Mountain and South-Central Sections of the Geological Society of America: April 30 - May 2, 2001; Sheraton Old Town Hotel, Albuquerque, NM; Contact -- John Geissman 505-277-3433, jgeiss@unm.edu;

20th International Geochemical Exploration Symposium: "Geochemistry and Exploration 2001 and Beyond"; May 6-10, 2001; Santiago, Chile; Contact -- Association of Exploration Geochemists ; Contact in Chile -- Acme Chile 562-748-76771, iges20@netline.cl

18th National Meeting, Amer. Soc. for Surface Mining & Reclamation: June 3-7, 2001; Albuquerque, NM; Contact -- Bruce Buchanan 505-327-2486.

5th International Conference on Diffuse Pollution: June 10-15, 2001; Milwaukee, WI; Contact -- mburkart@nsti.gov

2001 International Containment & Remediation Technology Conference and Exhibition: June 11-13, 2001; Orlando, FL; Contact -- Skip Chamberlain 301-903-7248.

21st Annual ESRI International User Conference: July 9-13, 2001; Convention Center, San Diego, CA; Contact -- 909-793-2853, uc2001@esri.com;

Fifth International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition: Sepetember 17-20, 2001; Marriott Hotel, San Francisco, and Moffett Airfield, Mountain View, CA; Contact -- Veridian Systems International Conferences 734-994-1200 ext. 3350;

Conference on Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology V: September 17-21, 2001; Toulouse, France; Contact -- Dr. Manfred Ehlers (+49)4441-15-423/561, E-mail: mehlers@iuw.uni-vechta.de;

CALL FOR PAPERS--AIPG/AEG Joint Annual Meeting: "Geology: Central to Society's Needs"; September, 30 - October 5, 2001; St. Louis, MO; Contact -- Paul Santi 573-341-4927, psanti@umr.edu; or stl2001_geomtg@hotmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS--Geological Society of America Annual Meeting: "Boston 2001: A Geo-Odyssey"; November 1-10, 2001; Boston, Massachusetts; Abstract deadline July 24, 2001;

CALL FOR PAPERS--2001: A Space Oddity?: "Delivering operational solutions from geological remote sensing research", Annual General Meeting of the Geological Remote Sensing Group; November 30, 2001; Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, U.K.; Contact -- Alex Davis, E-mail: a.m.davis@ic.ac.uk ;

CALL FOR PAPERS--2001 Annual Meeting and Conference of Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers of NGWA: "Ground Water Data: Collection, Reliability, Access, and Manipulation of Basic Data"; December 7-9, 2001; Abstract deadline May 25, 2001; Contact -- Dawn Guth 1-800-551-7379 ext. 546, dguth@ngwa.org.

August, 2001: Mine Lands Redevelopment Conference, SLC, UT

September, 2001: National Abandoned Mine Lands Conference, Athens, OH

December, 2001: Northwest Mining Association, Spokane, WA

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