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Natural Approach to Mined Land Rehabilitation
Rod Eckels (Australia) and Nicholas Bugosh (United States). Presented at the 2010 FIG Conference, Sydney Australia, April, 2010.
A major challenge of open pit mine operations is to efficiently dump the overburden waste material in a cost effective way. The traditional approach is to pile the overburden material in a large pyramid shaped “dump”. The advantages…
The Squiggly Ditch: A Case Study
By Dan Hause, Indiana AML
An informative case study presentation detailing the benefits of the GeoFluv and Natural Regrade reclamation process…
A Summary of Some Land Surface and Water Quality Monitoring Results for Constructed GeoFluv Landforms
Nicholas Bugosh, 2009 National Meeting of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation, Billings, MT Revitalizing the Environment: Proven Solutions and Innovative Approaches May 30 – June 5, 2009
Summary of Some Land Surface and Water Quality Monioring ResultsModern mining methods can drastically change landforms in the project area. Traditional reclamation grading methods often do not address all the criteria that must be met for the desired post-mining land use including water quality standards, in-stream uses, vegetation diversity and other reclamation criteria. Inability to [...]
Geomorphic Reclamation in New Mexico: a Regulator’s Perspective
Dave Clark, Mining and Minerals Division, Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Geomorphic Reclamation in New Mexico – Regulators PerspectiveEach of New Mexico’s active coal mines has reclamation challenges that are being successfully resolved through the application of geomorphic grading methods. At the San Juan Mine, the soils and overburden material are of poor quality, and it is not uncommon for the mine to receive less than [...]