Prospecting is the act of searching for valuable metals in either bearing veins, or placer gravels, which have been eroded from the original vein in which they were formed. If sufficient amounts are found via prospecting, then mining can begin to extract them.

Products, consultants, and other services for the environmental aspects of mining, including effluent treatment, mine reclamation, and prevention of acid mine drainage.

Topics include the generation, prevention, treatment and impacts of acidic waters generated by mining or related activities.

Mountaintop removal is a strip-mining practice in which the top of a mountain is literally removed by blasting and draglines, and the material is placed in a nearby valley, in order to get access to the coal or other resources under the mountain. This practice is increasingly common in the eastern United States coalfields.

This category holds links to dealers and distributors (sellers who do not produce) of machinery and accessories used to move loose loads such as clay, loam, sand, gravel; topsoil, soil, dirt, overburden, etc., including: backhoes (excavators), backhoe loaders, dozers (bulldozers), graders (pull, motor), front end loaders (tractor, skid steer), mining shovels (front shovels), scrapers (pull, motor), trenchers (bar, wheel), cable/pipe plows, sandbagging devices.

This category holds links to manufacturers/producers, and distributors, of parts, components, and subsystems for earthmoving equipment only, with international organizations, and United States organizations, which operations reach throughout the 48 states. For makers of parts for other heavy equipment, or generally for such systems, see: Business/Construction_and_Maintenance/Tools_and_Equipment/Parts_and_Service/Parts 57 chevy truck body parts

This category is for manufacturers of systems used to facilitate filling sandbags, which have many civil and military uses: controlling and containing: floods and water, hazardous material spills, soil erosion, fires, soil in construction projects, barricades for roads and railroads; packaging loose material for shipping, storage, and sale; stopping bullets, explosion fragments, speeding cars.

This category holds links to manufacturers/producers of machinery and accessories used to move loose loads such as clay, loam, sand, gravel; topsoil, soil, dirt, overburden, etc., including: backhoes (excavators), backhoe loaders, dozers (bulldozers), graders (pull, motor), loaders (front end loaders: tractor, skid steer), shovels (front shovels: hydraulic, cable; mining), draglines (tracked, walking), scrapers (pull, motor), trenchers (bar, wheel), cable/pipe plows, sandbagging devices. Such devices are usually used in construction, landscaping, and agriculture.

Equipment specifically related to production mining. This is not for prospecting equipment, but for technology of mining. Prospecting and gold hunting are not part of this site and should go under science:technology:mining:prospecting. palisade colorado land for sale

Businesses that explore for, or extract, mineral resources. Includes businesses that supply products and services in support of these activities in the fields of geology, geophysics, mining , and other earth sciences.