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U. S. Department of Interior | Office of Surface Mining National Awards

2004

Mid-Continent Regional Award
Coles Creek
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project

2003

Director's Award - Exemplary Wetlands Restoration
United Minerals Co. and Black Beauty Coal Co. Deer Ridge Mine

National Award Winner
Squaw Creek Coal Company Squaw Creek Mine

Good Neighbor Silver Award
Vigo Coal Company Cypress Creek Mine Wetlands/flood control area

Mid-Continent Regional Award
Victory Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project (Home of the NCAA Cross-Country Nationals)

2002

25th Anniversary Gold Award
Solar Sources, Inc. Sky-Point Mine (recognized as the best coal mine reclamation in the USA for the last 25 years)

Mid-Continent Regional Award & Peoples Choice
Midwestern Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Project

National Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Award Winner
Sunshine Mine Reclamation Project

2000

Exemplary mining and reclamation
Black Beauty Coal Co. / Vigo Coal Co. Columbia Mine

Finalist Midwestern Legislative Conference of the Council of State Governments
AML Reclamation Unit Price Contracting

1998

Hall of Fame Award
Solar Sources Inc. Pit #12 Mine

1996

Engineering Excellence Grand Project Award
Tecumseh Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Project

1994

Finalist National Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Award
Friar Tuck Northwest Gob Pile Project

1993

Finalist National Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Award
Friar Tuck Tailings Pond

Finalist National Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Award
Coe, Indiana , Coal Processing Project

1990

Exemplary Soil Replacement and Farmland Restoration
Solar Sources Inc. Sky Point Mine

Exceptional Mining and Reclamation by a Small Operator
Fowler Excavating A&P Pit / U.S. 50 Mine

1989

Exemplary Reclamation
Vigo Coal Company Discovery #1

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