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2012

Naeth, M. A., Raab, T., Bens, O., Krümmelbein, J.

Germany is the world’s leading lignite coal producer. The region surrounding the towns of Cottbus and Senftenberg in Lusatia, Eastern Germany, is one of the largest mining areas in Germany, and has economically been strongly dependent on lignite mining and lignite processing industries since the...

2013

Naeth, M. A., Cohen-Fernández, A. C., Wilkinson, S. R.

Limestone quarry reclamation worldwide requires development of substrates or anthroposolic soils. The suitability of three limestone substrates (gray, gray brown, crushed) for revegetation was assessed in two greenhouse experiments. In the first experiment amended substrates (pulp mill sludge,...

1986

Macyk, T. M.

This is one of a series of reports that presents the findings of the Plains Hydrology and Reclamation Project (PHRP), an interdisciplinary study that focuses primarily on hydrologic aspects of reclamation of surface coal mines in the plains of Alberta. This research has been conducted by the...

1994

Powter, C. B.

This report is a condensed version of two reports on the chemistry of a variety of oil sands substrates from Syncrude, Suncor, OSLO and SolvEx. The study was conducted by EnviroTest Laboratories for RRTAC, Syncrude, Suncor and OSLO. Page 2 of the report identifies the source of the various...

1989

Dai, T. S., Fung, M. Y. P.

Syncrude Canada Ltd. is an oil sands surface mining and process venture located at the Athabasca Oil Sands deposit in northeastern Alberta, Canada. An estimated 300 billion barrels of oil are considered recoverable from this deposit. The Alberta Government maintains that mined land be reclaimed...

2012

Naeth, M. A., Wilkinson, S. R., Drozdowski, B. L.

Mine waste materials with potential for use in soil construction at a diamond mine in the Northwest Territories were evaluated to address physical and chemical limitations for plant establishment, growth and development. Substrates were glacial till, gravel, processed kimberlite, and 50:50 and...

2002

Donkor, N. T., Bork, E. W., Hudson, R. J., Naeth, M. A., Gedir, J. V., Chanasyk, D. S.

Livestock trampling impacts have been assessed in many Alberta grassland ecosystems, but the impacts of animal trampling on Aspen Boreal ecosystems have not been documented. This study compared the effects of high intensity [4.16 animal unit month per ha (AUM) ha-1] short-duration grazing (SDG)...

2013

Christensen, A. F., Dyck, M. F., Turner, L. E., Chanasyk, D. S., Naeth, M. A., He, H., Nichol, C.

Understanding the soil and climatic conditions affecting the partitioning of snowmelt to runoff and infiltration during spring snow ablation is a requisite for water resources management and environmental risk assessment in cold semi-arid regions. Soil freezing and thawing processes, snowmelt...

2012

Dyck, M. F., Naeth, M. A., Christensen, A. F., He, H., Chanasyk, D. S., Nichol, C., Turner, L. E.

Understanding the soil and climatic conditions affecting the partitioning of snowmelt to runoff and infiltration during spring snow ablation is a requisite for water resources management and environmental risk assessment in cold semi-arid regions. Soil freezing and thawing processes, snowmelt...

1994

Powter, C. B.

List of Reclamation Research Technical Advisory Committee Reports