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Sustainable and responsible mining through sound mine closure
International Journal of Coal Science & Technology, 2023 This paper provides an overview of planning requirements, including regulatory, and implementation approaches for achieving ecologically sound reclamation and restoration of mines upon closure in the USA.
Yoginder P. Chugh +2 more
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Assessment towards mine closure within IPPKH (Permit of Using Forest Area): Study case of a coal mining Licence at Taba Penanjung, Central Bengkulu, Indonesia [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Mine closure is an inevitable event within the mining business; however, post-mining land use is always intended for further beneficial use for further development, mostly to reach a landscape that sustain and give further benefit after the mining ...
Suhartoyo Hery +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Coal mining that applies the open pit method has the potential to generate acid mine drainage. Acid mine drainage (AMD) treatments must include processes to mitigate significant challenges; these treatments include active treatment with high costs and ...
Ihsan Noor +3 more
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Resources, 2022 Responsible mine closure and repurposing are key to contributing to sustainable development by ensuring successful environmental rehabilitation and reducing socioeconomic risks.
Cansu Perdeli Demirkan +2 more
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The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2021 Background: Most mining operations are viable for a period of 30 years, depending on the mineral extracted and the available reserves. Whilst the expectation is that mines will continue uninterrupted until the planned period is complete, unscheduled ...
Mbalenhle Mpanza +2 more
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Bat use of abandoned mines throughout Nevada
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2023 Abandoned mines offer important roosting habitat for several species of bats throughout the western United States. Currently, abandoned mine reclamation programs are tasked with closing abandoned mines to ameliorate safety, health, and environmental ...
Megan L. Moran +3 more
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Energies, 2021 Mining companies are responsible for the impacts that result from their mining activities even after the mining period has ended. At the same time, at the European and international levels, there is a lack of a detailed operational methodology comprising
Gregorio Fidalgo Valverde +4 more
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The School of Public Policy Publications, 2023 Mining operations leave behind quarries with inhospitable conditions, characterized by steep drop-offs, deep water, flooding and poor drainage, and in some cases, abandoned industrial waste.
Albert Akondo Musando, Freddy Cáceres
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Materials Proceedings, 2021 The closure of surface mines is a complex framework characterized by extended reclamations of post-mining sites towards an environmentally friendly and sustainable land-use system development with beneficial returns to society and the economy.
Philip-Mark Spanidis +2 more
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The levels of disclosure relating to mine closure obligations by platinum mining companies
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2017 Background: Mine closure obligations are economically significant, and the consequences of insufficient mine closure obligations are of public interest.
Joline Sturdy, Christo J. Cronje
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