MAJOR CLIENTS: 

Ohio AML Program
Wyoming AML Program
Homestake Mining Company (CO)
Kennecott Utah Copper Corp.
Utah AMR Program
Savannah River Site-USFS (SC)
ANP Blackstone Energy Co. (MA)  
P & M Coal Company (WY & AL)
Powder River Coal Company (WY)
UMETCO (CO)
Texas Utilities      
Weyerhaeuser
Kennecott Ridgeway Mining Company(SC)  
Rhodia (MT)
Combustion Engineering, Inc. (NV)
Beal Mt. Mining Company (MT)
Kennecott Rawhide Mining Company (NV)
American Colloid Company (WY)     
National Park Service (WY) (CO)
Basin Creek Mining (MT)
PHC RECLAMATION, INC. PROJECT EXAMPLES

Wyoming AML Project 12D (Bentonite Reclamation)

Contract tasks include site investigations, development of technologically sound cost-effective designs and specifications, pre-construction bidding services and construction management. Major work components include consents and clearances; preparation of contract documents, plans, specifications, reclamation designs, environmental report, pre-design report and final plans and specifications; site eligibility; subsurface and surface investigations; permits, licenses and right-of-ways; geomorphic considerations; cultural resource; surveying, photogrammetry, mapping; and securing land owner review and consents.


Reference:  State of Wyoming
          Department of Environmental Quality
          AML Division
          Herschler Bldg-4th Floor
          Cheyenne, WY  82002
          Ongoing Project
          Total Project Cost:  $1,400,000
          PHC Reclamation, Inc. Fees:  $1,400,000

Wyoming AML Project 17F

A statewide reclamation project. PHC-REC is providing engineering services to evaluate and eliminate public safety hazards and environmental hazards associated with a variety of types of abandoned mine sites. Major work components include consents and clearances; eligibility determinations; field investigations, subsurface and surface investigations; securing permits, licenses and right-of-ways; engineering and design; preparation of environmental reports, pre-design plans, reclamation plans and final plans and specifications; surveying, photogrammetry and mapping; and provide construction management.

Reference:  State of Wyoming
          Department of Environmental Quality
          AML Division
          3030 Energy Lane, Suite 200
          Casper, WY  82604
          Ongoing Project
          Total Project Cost:  $1,300,000    
          PHC Reclamation, Inc. Fees: $1,300,000

Wyoming AML 8.1 Project

The purpose of this project is to conduct statewide inventory of over 300 mine sites eligible for reclamation.  PHC-REC is responsible for the identification of sites requiring reclamation, evaluation of new sites not presently included in the AML database and the determination of the extent of reclamation work required.

Reference:   Chris Lidstone
          Lidstone & Associates
          760 Whalers Way, Suite B-200
          Fort Collins, CO  80525
          Ongoing project
          PHC Reclamation, Inc. Fees:  $100,000

Wyoming AML 9B-2 Project

This project consists of the investigation and mitigation of the physical and environmental hazards associated with the Carissa Gold Mine property. The Carissa Gold Mine was established in 1867 and considered the flagship property of the Sweetwater Mining District. Some of the hazards included highwalls, portals, adits, vertical openings, subsidence features, ore processing waste, open pits and trenches, dilapidated buildings, geomorphic instability and hazardous materials. Work performed included site investigation, eligibility, review of existing environmental documents, surface and subsurface geologic and mine map evaluation, field surveying and mapping, conceptual design and costing; and provide construction management. A report of the investigation was prepared and submitted to the Governor of the State of Wyoming and to the Wyoming AML Program.  Based on the findings of the investigation, the State of Wyoming purchased the Carissa Mine and it will be developed into a State Historical Park as an addition to the South Pass Historical Park.

Reference:  State of Wyoming
          Department of Environmental Quality
          AML Division    
          3030 Energy Lane, Suite 200
          Casper, Wyoming 82604
          Ongoing Project
          Total Project Cost: $5,000,000.00
          PHC Reclamation, Inc. Fees: $1,000,000.00

              Victor-Brown Mine Closures - CDM Constructors

            This hazardous mine mitigation project involved the closure of mine
shafts using bulk foam and a foam pumping system.  A total of 16 hazardous
openings were closed using 167 c/y of foam.  Closure techniques involved
shaft plug construction and setting, foam pouring, fill placement over foam
plug, and final grading of the individual sites.  At six of the closure
sites, bat gates were constructed and installed.

Reference:  CDM Constructors
          11811 NE 1st Street, Suite 201
          Bellevue, Washington 98005
          Completed: May 31, 2004
          Total Project Cost: $76,500
          PHC Reclamation, Inc. Fee: $76,500

              Kennecott Mineral Corporation - Ridgeway Mine

The purpose of this project was to re-establish vegetation on the slopes around the open pits and in all the waste dump areas.  Random soil samples were taken over the 200 acres of purposed reclamation areas to determine the pH of the soil and what soil amendments were needed.  After determining what amendments were needed, the soil was amended with lime, fertilized, scarified, pitted and inoculated with VAM and seeded in the designated areas for reclamation.  PHC Reclamation's pitter successfully completed the VAM application and seeding in all areas. Revegetation was successfully established and soil erosion mitigated. In 2003, PHC Reclamation, Inc. was asked to grow and plant Loblolly pines that had been inoculated with PHC Reclamation's PT Spore Spray (Ectomycorrhizal Fungi) around the large open pit areas to re-establish trees in acidified soils areas.

Reference:  Roy Duckett
Kennecott MIneral Corporation
Ridgeway Mine
227 Summer Road
Ridgeway, SC 29130
Completed:  April 2002
Total Project Cost:  $340,800
PHC Reclamation, Inc. Fee $340,800

              Kennecott Mineral Corporation - Denton Rawhide Mine

The purpose of this project was to establish vegetation and control erosion on a large, steeply sloped waste dump. PHC Reclamation, Inc. provided services for the ripping, fertilizing, pitting, seeding, and the application of pelletized mycorrhizal fungi spores (VAM).  PHC Reclamation, Inc. also assisted Kennecott Rawhide Mining Company in the management of earthwork activities that included waste dump and borrow pit re-contouring,alluvium/topsoil hauling and  alluvium/topsoil placement. A total of 405 acres were successfully reclaimed and vegetation was established.

Reference:  Don Deines
              Kennecott Rawhide Mining Company
              P.O. Box 2070
              Fallon, NV  89407
                    Completed:  February 2004
      Total Project Cost:  $527,800
      PHC Reclamation, Inc. Fees:  $527,800

UMETCO

PHC Reclamation, Inc. provided biological consulting and vegetation establishment services for UMETCO Minerals Corporation's Uravan Project at the former mill and town sites at Uravan, Colorado in 2000. This site is a Superfund site. Responsibilities included species selection, selection of soil amendments, preparation of the seedbed and pit seeding. The soil was inoculated with PHC-REC's exclusive pelletized VAM mycorrhizal fungi.

Reference:   Rahe Junge
          Manager of Special Projects
          UMETCO Minerals Corporation
          P.O. Box 1029
          Grand Junction, CO 81502
          Completed: December 2000
          PHC Reclamation, Inc. Fees:  $164,800

Ohio Abandoned Mine Land Program

Since 1981, professionals with PHC-REC have been involved with the reclamation and reforestation of over 3,000 acres of abandoned mine sites in southern Ohio for the Ohio Division of Mine Land Reclamation. The projects have mitigated hazards associated with industrial mineral sites, strip-mines, gob piles, off-site erosion and degradation, bench slopes, highwalls, and highly acidic (pH 2.9 - 3.4) soils.   Reforestation of the sites has included planting of approximately five (5) million seedlings inoculated with Pisolithus tinctorius (Pt) ectomycorrhizal fungi.

Reference:  John Sprouse
               Ohio Department of Natural Resources
               1855 Fountain Square Court
               Columbus, OH  43224     
               Ongoing Project:

Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation

Kennecott has utilized the services of PHC-REC since 1994 to reclaim more than 6,000 acres of land disturbed by mining.  Areas specifically addressed and mitigated had extensive erosion, sedimentation of drainage's, production of acidic water, and extreme dust hazards.  Waste dump slopes were 1.5:1 or steeper with little to no suitable topsoil available.  PHC-REC utilized a natural soil system solution to establish vegetation at these sites.  A container-grown tree and shrub seedling production program was established, biosolids were introduced as soil amendments and specific mycorrhizal fungi along with specific bacteria were utilized to inoculate tree seedlings, shrubs and grasses. This work has resulted in the client receiving three (3) awards for reclamation.

Reference:   Mr. H. B. Van Dyken                    
                     Director of Engineering Services    
       Kennecott Utah Copper               
                     12000 West 2100 South, P.O. Box 569
                     Magna, Utah 84044                    
                     (801) 569-7444                                                             
                     Total Project Cost:  $100,000,000     
                     PHC Reclamation, Inc. Fees:  $500,000

ANP Blackstone Energy Company

Technical and biological services were provided for the reclamation and restoration of a borrow area adjacent to ANP Blackstone Energy Company's power generating facility in Massachusetts.  This project was located in a populated area and compliance with stringent restoration regulations was required.  PHC-REC provided design review, developed the revegetation program construction management.  Sensitive wetlands were protected and restored, natural drainage was re-established and the site was recontoured.  Establishment of vegetation and use of erosion control netting for steep slopes mitigated erosional problems. Container-grown trees and shrubs and grasses were inoculated with specific mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria.

               Reference:   Mr. Scott Ridder                                  
               Earth Tech, Inc.
               47 East Grove Street
               Middleborough, MA  02346
               Phone:  (508) 947-1700
               Project Completion Date: Fall 2001
               Total Project Cost:  $187,600
               PHC Reclamation, Inc. Fees: $187,600

              Homestake Mining Company's Pitch Mine

Located near Sargents, CO at an elevation of 10,000 to 12,000 feet above sea level.  PHC-REC was requested by Homestake to assist them in their reclamation program by improving grass and forb establishment and to improve the survival and growth rates of trees.  Previous attempts to establish vegetation using aerial and hydroseeding had limited success due to the harsh site and climatic conditions and erosion of the slopes had continued due to the slow root growth. PHC-REC inoculated the soil with mycorrhizal fungi inocula (VAM pellets) into the soil at the time of seeding. No soil amendments were used and no soil was imported.  Initial areas were seeded and inoculated in October 1997.  An inspection of these areas was made in October 1998.  Soil erosion of the slopes was insignificant and new vegetation establishment was successful. Homestake requested that PHC-REC grow, inoculate and plant 8,000 lodgepole pine containerized seedlings. These seedlings were inoculated with ectomycorrhizal fungi in February 1998 and planted on the mine site in October 1998 and 10,000 inoculated seedlings were grown and planted in fall 1999.

Reference:   Mr. Vern Kelso
          Homestake Mining Company
          Pitch Mine
          P.O. Box 40
          Sargents, CO  81248
          (970) 641-4541
          Total Project Cost: $100,000
          PHC Reclamation, Inc. Fees: $100,000

Gebo Mine Reclamation Project
The abandoned Gebo coal-mining district north of Thermopolis, Wyoming was examined in February of 2000 as part of the Wyoming statewide site characterization effort. Gebo is a Bureau of Land Management site and was active during the late 1800's and early decades of the 1900's.

PHC Reclamation, Inc. personnel found numerous safety and environmental hazards in the area. Many of these are on BLM administered surface. The State of Wyoming considered some of these hazards critical enough to develop a project for emergency reclamation under SMCRA (DEQ/AML Project #17F (site 5)). Examples of problems on BLM administered surface at the Gebo site included the collapse of underground mine workings causing surface openings which had captured flow from a stream channel, headcutting which had washed out a public road, making an emergency detour necessary, and coal slack piles in drainage bottoms. Other features include unstable structures, open shafts and adits, failed closures, trash and stained soils, and a mine fire.

PHC Reclamation, Inc. provided site investigation, engineering and design and project management for this site. All hazards were mitigated; the public road was reconstructed. The stream channel was reshaped to original contours and the site was seeded.

        Reference:   State of Wyoming
          Department of Environmental Quality
          AML Division
          3030 Energy Lane, Suite 200
          Casper, WY  82604
          Ongoing Project
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