Abandoned Mine Lands Additional Resources

• "Abandoned Mine Lands Preliminary Assessment Handbook": This handbook provides basic information for conducting an initial investigation of AML sites and aids in the identification of mining features, constituents of concern and potential health risks.
  
• "Abandoned Mine Lands Site Discovery Process": This document explains how AML sites are identified and brought under DTSC’s and the AML Initiative Team’s oversight.
  
• DTSC’s EnviroStor: DTSC’s database of regulated sites.
  
• Maps: Map of AML sites in California.

Guidance from agencies involved with AML issues.

• Abandoned Mine Land Inventory and Hazard Assessment (U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, May, 1994)  Part A & Part B 
• Risk Management Criteria for Metals at BLM Sites (U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, October 2004) 
• Abandoned Mine Site Characterization and Cleanup Handbook (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, August 2000) 
• California's Abandoned Mines - A Report on the Magnitude and Scope of the Issue in the State (Department of Conservation, Office of Mine Reclamation, Abandoned Mine Lands Unit, June 2000) 
• Mercury Contamination from Historic Gold Mining in California (U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, May 2000)
• Abandoned Mine Lands: A Decade of Progress Reclaiming Hardrock Mines (U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, September 2007)

Slide presentations and video presentations addressing AML issues.

• Addressing Threats from Abandoned Mines in California Communities

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• U.S. Geological Survey
• U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service
• U.S. Bureau of Land Management
• Abandoned Mine Lands Forum
• Sierra Nevada Conservancy
• State Water Resources Control Board
• California State Parks
• Sierra Fund 
• California Indian Environmental Alliance
• Department of Conservation AML Unit