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Acid Drainage Technology Initiative-Metal Mining
Sector(ADTI-MMS)
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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