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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"post mining"”.
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Sustainability Assessment of Post-Mining Land Use Planning
Mining, by its nature, provides enormous investment to the mining nations and by extension contributes to the socio-economic development of the host communities. Where these communities exist, they remain a cause of concern since they are predominantly dependent on the economic opportunities …
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Poldarking the Past: Contested Heritage, Tourism and Identity in Post-mining Cornwall
… and Ashworth (1996) to provide a lens for examining the intricacies of heritage dissonance pertaining to the uses of competing narratives of ‘real’ and ‘fictional’ at heritage sites. Findings of the study revealed that the popularity of the 2015 adaptation of Poldark increased tourist numbers …
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Green trails as catalyst: revitalization of six post-mining towns in Illinois
… aims to illustrate a strategy for revitalizing post-mining towns for their important history and culture. Since being surrounded with features from the past is considered an excellent way to learn about the environment and history (Lynch 1972, 53), this thesis proposes to generate green trails …
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Integration of landscape reclamation, planning and design in a post-mining district: Cartagena-La Union, SE Spain
… solutions for healing the landscape wounds of post-mining activities all over the world. Early mining operations left degraded lands not in accord with regional ecosystems and lacking socio-economic and cultural values. Increasing awareness of environmental sensitivity identified the …
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Identifying Optimal Sites for Aquaculture in Southern Ontario Aggregate Pit Lakes: A Sustainable Post-Mining Land-Use Alternative
… social and economic impacts. However, effective post-mining land-use (PMLU) in pit lakes must carefully consider the limnology, geography, and technical attributes of each site. We propose the implementation of aquaculture as an innovative and sustainable PMLU strategy in pit lakes. With proper …
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A Feasibility Analysis of Wind Power as an Alternative Post-mining Land Use in Surface Coal Mines in West Virginia
Surface coal mining in West Virginia has supplied energy to the eastern coast of the United States for over a century. Over the years, the coal mining industry has been forced to adapt as societal demands regarding health, safety, and environmental impacts have changed. More recent pressure has …
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Exploring the governance of post-mining restoration in Scotland in the demise of the opencast coal industry and finding the way forward
… to economic and social development, mining causes environmental degradation that can make significant and long-term impacts on ecosystems, biodiversity and human health and well-being. The impacts of mining projects on the surrounding environment have led to the tension between mining …
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Costs of Reclamation on Southern Appalachian Coal Mines: A cost-effectiveness analysis for reforestation versus hayland/pasture reclamation
The two most common options for post-mining land uses in the southern Appalachians are forestry or hayland/pasture. Hayland/pasture has become the predominant reclamation type due to ease of establishment and strict regulation standards requiring quick and dense erosion control by herbaceous cover. …
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Vliv dominantních druhů stromů na půdní vlastnosti
… developed soils in late stages of pedogenesis. Post-mining sites represented soils where pedogenesis was in the initial state. I found out that soil age is the controlling factor of carbon sequestration. In well-developed soils more C was stored under conifers. In initial soils on post mining …
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Community participation in diversification options of the diamond mine, Alexkor Ltd : tourism and mariculture
As a diamond mining company, Alexkor Ltd has had a great impact on the Namaqualand region. Its non-mining section, ABT, has begun implementing a development strategy that is focused on internal transformation of the company and post-mining economic alternatives. This dissertation focuses on how …
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Development of Ecosystem Structure and Function on Reforested Surface-Mined Lands
Surface mining in the central Appalachian coalfield disturbs landscapes. Post-mining reforestation efforts now achieve successful reestablishment and growth; however, it is unclear whether reforestation efforts also restore the native forest ecosystem functions. We quantified rates of return of key …
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IWRM-tested national law and policies: towards catchment-based management of water resources during the life cycle of large-scale mining sites
Negative impacts of large-scale metal/mineral mining (LSM) on the quantity and quality of surface and ground water resources within the catchment are systematic occurrences during both mining and post-mining phases. The lack of adequate engagement by mining companies with interested and affected …
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Analysis of Reconstructed Mine Soils on Reclaimed Coal and Mineral Sands Mined Lands in Virginia
Post-mining land use potentials are greatly influenced by mine soil properties. I analyzed and classified coal mine soils in SW VA and mineral sands mine soils in SE VA to aid development of appropriate post-mining land use interpretations. For coal mine soils, long-term pedogenesis was assessed in …
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Methoden der EDV-gestützten, dreidimensionalen Lagerstättenmodellierung am Beispiel ausgewählter Bauxitvorkommen
… bauxite deposits by use of the exploration and mining Software DATAMINETM. The developed methodology of the computer-aided orebody modeling exists of four stages, by name first the conceptual model, second the geometrical model, third the property model and fourth the geological model of the …
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Geotechnische Modellvorstellungen zur Abschätzung von Gefährdungsbereichen des Altbergbaus und Schachtschutzbereichen im Aachener Steinkohlenrevier
Before industrial revolution in the 19th century, mining activity concentrated on near surface coal and ore deposits. In the hard coal mining district of Aachen in close vicinity of the river “Wurm”, near surface hard coal has been mined in an area of about 19 km². Shallow mining dates back to at …
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Evaluating wildlife response to vegetation restoration on reclaimed mine lands in southwestern Virginia
Coal mining has had profound impacts in the Appalachian region, initiating a need to understand the implications of traditional and current reclamation practices on wildlife. I evaluated wildlife use of reclaimed sites of varying ages and cover types in southwestern Virginia. I compared reclaimed …
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Phosphate stabilisation of partly oxidised, polyminerallic mine wastes
… environmental problem currently facing the mining industry. Phosphate induced stabilisation has been used to create passive iron phosphate coatings on pyrite and pyrrhotite. The formation of solid phosphate coatings on the sulphide grains thereby inhibits sulphide oxidation. The aims of this …
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Restoration of A. fasciculatum at Rocky Canyon Granite Quarry, San Luis Obispo, CA
… effects of interspecific competition with native postfire vegetation, post-mining volunteer vegetation, and intraspecific only competition. Plots were managed and observed from December 2004 to May 2006. Half of the 48 plots were summer irrigated throughout the first growing season to test the …
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Hydrologic Response of Alternative Valley Fill Reclamation Designs
Mountaintop mining (MTM) is a widely practiced surface mining technique in Central Appalachian Conventional reclamation (Approximate Original Contour), involves the construction of valley fills of headwater systems. Recent research suggests that current MTM reclamation techniques increase stormflow …
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Factors contributing to unsuccessful rehabilitation: a case study investigating the rehabilitation practices in Opencast Coal Mines in the Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
The coal mining industry has played a significant role in the development of the South African economy. Coal supplies about 70% of South Africa's primary energy and is likely to remain the country's major source of energy despite the increasing trends towards renewable energy. Even though the …
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