Soil and Overburden Assessments

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soil and overburden evaluations are provided by a team of geologists and soil scientists with over 40 years of experience. They are supervised by John Sturm and John Freeman, who are registered certified soil scientists. Both Sturm and Freeman performed much of the research at West Virginia University which led to "State of the Art" overburden testing techniques detailed in Field and Laboratory Methods Applicable to Overburdens and Minesoils (EPA 600/2-78-054). SES reports identify materials both toxic and favorable in the overburden so that material handling scenarios can be developed for environmentally sound mining practices. Services include:

	*Complete overburden analysis*
	*Core logging and strata identification*
	*Acid-base accounting*
	*Slake durability index determinations*
	*Nutrient and heavy metals analysis*
	*Evaluation of burial of toxic overburden*
	*Physical properties testing*
	*Evaluation for topsoil substitutes*
	*Problematic evaluation of soils and minesoils*
	*ASTM and EPA leaching studies*
	*Material handling reports*

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