Great! been wondering when there was going to start being (more) coverage of land/mine reclamation via biochar. Its awesome as an ag amendment, etc but, its ability to restore bad land, even if the intention is just to restore the land... this has needed more coverage for a while.

Once it gets into flood plains and stops stuff from getting into the groundwater, etc... the things that biochar can help not happen... its almost impossible to compute. Its like saying, it has $x-amount of value because it cause this thing from not happening. Well, who's to say that would've happened anyway? well, it was happening, until biochar came in.... and, at that, biochar stopped it from continuing to happen. And, not just that, it also created so much water retention that less water was needed to be pumped into these areas to begin with to be able to run off... or just some logic like that.

Either way, awesome coverage.

on a side note, i like how it points out how there was 158tons of silver extracted from it and yet it still never turned a profit. That's $176.9m by today's valuation of silver.

It just goes to show that biochar, like silver... there are countless ways it could be done but, some of them are just better/smarter than others... and many of those 'others' are just not profitable.

If biochar were sold for today's equivalent of $0.10/lb... they could've made more money from the land char'ing and replanting and re'charing the land and made more money off of it in a 'sustainable' way with not only less but next-to no environmental negative and a whole lot of environmental positive.

Biochar should've been 'being-done' for a very long time now, and should be being done on a much larger scale than its currently not. Good coverage, and glad to see positive results from its application.

Now, hopefully they can find that dye!