Mine Rehabilitation Diagram. These new south african guidelines are intended both to update the previous coal based strip mining guidelines and to expand them for use with other mining methods. Reclamation is the process to put the land to some productive use.
Leading practice sustainable development program for the mining industry. Mining management plan structure guide for mining operations. The entire reclamation procedure can be divided into two parts.
Mine production scheduling is the determination of the best mining strategy that defines extraction sequence at a given time and the movement of mineralized material to maximize the overall net present value npv while optimizing the available resource utilization based on identified economics technical environmental and geological constraints ben awuah et al.
The long term objective of alcoas mine rehabilitation is to establish a self sustaining jarrah forest ecosystem that maintains or enhances conservation timber water recreation and other forest values. The two year pilot project will focus on the mather b iron mine which closed in 1979. Section 34 of the guideline requires flood plain modelling for the purpose of voids located within a flood plain being rehabilitated to a stable. This will need to change as the risk profile and exposure of the industry to the issue increases.