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Virginia pine trees now grow on the hillside where the Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine once operated, and Quantico Creek no longer runs orange or smells of sulfur. In 1995 the National Park Service and the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy began reclaiming the site because the land could not heal itself. They built storm-water channels to divert surface water, capped mineshafts with cement, buried mine tailings with lime and soil to reduce acidity, and planted 5,000 trees and shrubs.
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