Which statement best describes the limits of requiring land reclamation as the primary method for

Question

mitigating environmental damage done by mining in the United States?
THe answers are:
There are many more surface mines than underground mines; however, land reclamation is less
successful at surface mine sites.

Surface mining causes such extensive environmental damage that land reclamation is rarely successful.

Land reclamation works for mitigating environmental damage at coal mines, but not other types of mines.

There are thousands of mine sites that have been abandoned, leaving huge areas that are not being
reclaimed.

Answer 1

There are thousands of mine sites that have been abandoned, leaving huge areas that are not being reclaimed.