| Library and Multimedia (in progress) - "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 and Geographic Information System (GIS) Layers: Layers for ArcView GIS that contain information about AML sites.
- Photo Gallery: See the impact of California’s abandoned mines, the environmental threat to watersheds and rivers, and the environmental safeguards DTSC has in place to prevent releases and to protect resources into the future.
- Maps: Map of AML sites in California.
- Guidance Documents: 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)
- Presentations: Slide presentations and video presentations addressing AML issues.
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