Summary

This review surveys online resources relevant to constructing, restoring, and/or maintaining a mine-related wetland. It gives a definition of wetlands and lists software, specialists, consultants, and suppliers that deal with wetlands. It also describes how constructed wetlands are used to treat acid mine drainage.

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INTRODUCTION

You are involved with wetlands in mining if you do one or more of the following:

• Remove a wetland to make way for your mine
• Construct and operate a new wetland as part of a mitigation or reclamation project at your mine
• Use a wetland to control acid mine drainage
• Install a wetland to deal with contaminated runoff from the heap leach pad or tailings impoundment.

In this review, we survey resources available on the web that may help you do or manage somebody else doing the work involved in constructing, restoring, and/or maintaining a mine-related wetland.