Niumasi Coal Mine (located in Shaodong City, Hunan Province, China) was an important producing area of high-quality coking coal in Hunan Province. After large-scale mining of underground coal seams in the area, there has been a large area of surface subsidence and serious land damage. The damaged land urgently needs to be …
Mining significantly alters both natural and anthropogenic systems, where these lands are not converted to a sustainable economic or urban after use, they must be reclaimed for agriculture or forestry or returned to nature, this applies to both surface and underground mining. Timely and reasonable land reclamation of damaged mine land is …
The cost to reclaim these abandoned mines is around $11 billion, according to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
The coal gangue has occupied the farmland and caused severe pollution to the surrounding environment, which was discharged with vast amount as a by-product of coal mining and washing. A sustainable and ecological microorganism activation method was proposed to disposal coal gangue as mineral fertili …
The mining severity assessment for 2022 revealed a total of 32 mining pits within the 5-km bufer zone, where 21 mining pits (65.63%) of the total mining activities occurred within the 2-km bufer zone.
Globally, mine site restoration faces great challenges due to legacy effects of mining operations such as disturbed soil structure (Sheoran et al., 2010), and soil and groundwater pollution due to ...
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139882 Corpus ID: 219703186; Effects of fertilization and reclamation time on soil bacterial communities in coal mining subsidence areas. @article{Wang2020EffectsOF, title={Effects of fertilization and reclamation time on soil bacterial communities in coal mining subsidence areas.}, author={Xiangying Wang and …
The International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment welcomes mining research papers that explore: Design of surface and underground mines (economics, geotechnical, production scheduling, ventilation) Mine planning and optimization. Mining geostatics. Mine drilling and blasting technologies. Mining material …
Mine reclamation is the process of rehabilitating the land following the stop of coal mining operations. Joel Natario has been involved in many mine reclamation projects. O ver the last 35 years ...
The mining industry has been operating across the globe for millennia, but it is only in the last 50 years that remote sensing technology has enabled the visualization, mapping and assessment of mining impacts and landscape recovery. Our review of published literature (1970–2019) found that the number of ecologically focused remote sensing studies …
1. Introduction. In surface mining, soil and rock overlying or hosting a shallow ore deposit is physically removed to access the resource. Surface mining comprises different practices − strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop-removal mining − and accounts for more than 80% of ore mined each year (Ramani, 2012).Surface mining …
Decommissioning and Reclamation of Mine Sites. Dr. David Boadi. Pages 91-92 | Published online: 11 Apr 2012. Cite this article. …
Our site visit findings showed that the Qibaoshan Fe–S Mine has initiated the process of reclaiming the tailings pond (its No. 1 Tailings Pond) and the adjacent …
Mining represents a temporary use of the land. Modern, energy-dependent economies cannot thrive without energy and other strategic minerals however natural landscapes cannot survive without ...
Reclamation: the process of reconverting disturbed land to its former or other productive uses. Remediation: the removal, reduction, or neutralization of substances, wastes or hazardous material from a site to prevent or minimize any adverse effects on the environment now or in the future. Often a mine site will require features of all three in ...
Note: This prototype, developed by the State Mining and Geology Board (Board), is intended to assist smaller-scale mine operators in environmentally non-sensitive areas to conform to the requirements of the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA) and related Board regulations. It serves as an example of an acceptable reclamation plan …
Many ecosystems are being severely degraded, leading the United Nations to deem 2021-2030 as the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. To be successful, this effort requires …
With the release of globally applicable Standards for the Ecological Restoration and Recovery of Mine Sites at the UN Biodiversity Conference in 2022 …
The nation's second-largest deposit of rare-earth magnet material is sitting under the ground in southeast Nebraska. That's the estimation of a geological study of the Elk Creek project released ...
The results shows that reclamation area of post coal mining in the study site which is most suitable for local plant species, especially Shorea balangeran, has a sloping terrain.
Access the Restoration Ecologyversion here. Access the Key Concepts Summary explainer here. Mine site restoration, before (left) and after (right), India. Photo credit: Dr. Evr Raju … See more
Date: February 6, 2020. Contact: [email protected]. WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced the availability of Fiscal Year …
A suggested approach is outlined as follows: Summarize the regulatory and legal framework for decommissioning and reclamation that may govern site activities. Establish the scientific and engineering understanding of how the mining operations, wastes, and spills could impact soils and groundwater. Design and conduct …
reclamation of li ne mines. The Surface Mining Act is a reclamation law that requires a permit for each mine that (1) results in more than 3 acres of minerelated disturbance or (2) has a highwall that is both higher than 30 feet and steeper than 45 degrees (RCW chapter 33218 governments must formally approve mine sites and/or the subsequent use of the …
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103756 Corpus ID: 259468113; Coupling of underground coal mining and mine reclamation for farmland protection and sustainable mining @article{Hu2023CouplingOU, title={Coupling of underground coal mining and mine reclamation for farmland protection and sustainable mining}, author={Zhenqi Hu and …
Abstract. Bio-Geotechnologies for Mine Site Rehabilitation deals with the biological, physical, chemical, and engineering approaches necessary for the reclamation of mine waste. …
A concise historical narrative of NAICS Code 562910-10 covering global milestones and recent developments within the United States. The "Mining Reclamation Service & Site Work" industry has a long history dating back to the early 1900s when the first mining laws were enacted in the United States. These laws required mining companies to reclaim ...
OSMRE also administers the Federal Reclamation Program, including watershed cooperative agreements, civil penalty projects, and emergency projects. Coal mine permittees pay a fee to the AML Reclamation Fund (AML Fund) based on the tonnage of coal produced. As of September 30, 2022, approximately $12.01 billion in …
The Pangzhuang coal mine in the northeast of Xuzhou, China, was selected as the experimental site in a typical coal mining area. The annual average precipitation is 860 mm and annual mean ...
Based on this, we established a quality evaluation model for mining land reclamation using an improved index and method. The evaluation units were divided, and the weight of the evaluation index ...
One of the most serious environmental issues related to the mining industry in Canada and elsewhere, is the pollution from abandoned mine waste disposal sites. The wastes containing sulphide minerals can oxidize and generate contaminants in the water drainage, a phenomenon called acid mine drainage (AMD). Different techniques are available to ...
Jan 23, 2024. A before and after look of the building pad at the old Moss 3 site. Submitted photo. Russell County Reclamation officials met with regional economic leaders on Jan. 19 to discuss the organization's plans for the old Moss 3 coal mining site. John Matney and Clyde Stacy discussed the site's history, present condition and future ...
Mine reclamation is restoring a mine site to its pre-mining condition. It includes capping and sealing contaminated areas, planting vegetation, salvaging usable materials, and reclaiming land affected by mining activity. The first step in the reclamation process is to locate and secure the mine site, followed by submitting an environmental ...