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  • After the tops of the mountains have been blasted, the "overburden" or "spoil" is pushed into adjacent valleys to create a valley fill. Valley fills have buried an estimated 2000 miles of headwaters.
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  • Mountains in Appalachia are systematically dismantled in order to extract coal more cheaply.  This image shows a still relatively early stage in the process of Mountain Top Removal mining. Hundreds of feet of elevation will ultimately be blasted from each mountain.  Over 500 mountains have been destroyed to this point. Boone County, WV
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