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Understanding and Responding to Hazardous Substances at Mine Sites in the Western United States.

JEROME V. DEGRAFF, Editor. Pp. 180. The Geological Society of America. Reviews in Engineering Geology, Vol 17. 2007. ISBN 978081371178. Price member $42, non-member $60.

University of Alaska—Fairbanks, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Fairbanks, Alaska

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This volume is a collection of papers resulting from a symposium titled, "Addressing Hazardous Waste and Contamination Issues at Abandoned Mines in the Western United States," held at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists in Reno, Nevada. A suitable subtitle for the book might have been "Case Studies in Site Characterization," as the majority of the chapters present stand-alone hydrogeochemical studies of select sites. However, given the variety of localities and approaches taken, I suspect this book will find wide appeal with the target audience—primarily land and resource managers, geologists, and engineers working with abandoned mines or modern site remediation efforts.

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