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Highland Valley is near Logan Lake, which is about 45 minutes southwest of Kamloops. Copper Mountain is near Princeton in the Southern Interior. The research will enable more precise measurements of soil biodiversity, allowing for more accurate environmental assessments at mine sites to produce healthier, more productive soils. When mines close, the owners are mandated by law to reclaim sites to a functioning ecosystem and that starts with the soil, which is full of living organisms that each have a role to play, Fraser said. In the past, to get a sense of what was in the soil, bacteria and fungi in soil samples had to be cultivated a lengthy process that could only identify a fraction of the microbes.