Reclamation Costs of Strip-mined Land in Western North Dakota

dc.publisher	North Dakota State University
dc.rights	North Dakota State University	en
dc.title	Reclamation Costs of Strip-mined Land in Western North Dakota	en
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.source	Farm Research; 37:1; Jul/Aug 1979
dc.description	Reclamation of strip-mined land in North Dakota is an important part of the mining process under present state law. Mining cannot be undertaken unless reclamation can be successfully completed. The reclamation process was divided into separate activities that must be performed, including preparation and planning, recontouring, top- soiling, and revegetation. The cost of reclamation was then estimated for a given set of mine conditions. The effects on reclamation cost of different physical characteristics of coal mines and requirements of the Federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 were also examined. The cost of reclamation under the conditions assumed was $6,500 per mined acre. The federal legislation would add an average of $2,900 per mined acre to the cost of reclamation.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2009-06-24T15:38:57Z
dc.date.available	2009-06-24T15:38:57Z
dc.date.issued	1979
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10365/5224
dc.creator	Scott, Donald F.
dc.creator	Gronhovd, Duane E.
dc.subject.lcsh	Economics	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	Mining	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	Land restoration	en_US
dc.creator.author	Scott, Donald F.
dc.creator.author	Gronhovd, Duane E.
dc.relation.ispartof	Farm Research; 37:1; Jul/Aug 1979