Land Management Resources
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Stephen Moran
John Cherry
In reconstructing the landscape during reclamation the sequence and methods of placement of overburden material determine the post-mining subsurface-water chemistry. The type of material at various...
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The Peace River Coal Block in B.C. extends a distance of 150 miles from the Williston reservoir to the Alberta border. Approximately seven hundred and fifty Coal Licences are involved, each one mile...
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Harold Etter
George Lesko
Reclamation planning for tar sands mining and extraction operation differs greatly from that used in Alberta foothills and plains coal mines. One of the main differences is that the bulk of the...
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Processing oil sand involves material handling on an unprecedented scale, and creates vast quantities of waste or tailings. Large retaining structures are constructed from the sand tailings and used...
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In some areas the accelerated weathering of material disturbed by coal mining operations releases toxic concentrations of elements present. Also, water seeping through the mine waste may become quite...
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Authors
Daniel Carter
Howard Loewenstein
Franklin Pitkin
Results of two experiments, one greenhouse project and one field study, indicate that high heavy metal concentrations in smelter-contaminated soils and in tree seedlings grown thereon, increase...
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Roger Berdusco
Anthony Milligan
Kaiser Resources Ltd. owns and operates a 5 million ton per year open pit and hydraulic coal mine near Sparwood in Southeastern British Columbia. Since 1969, Kaiser has maintained a field scale...
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This section describes standards for reclamation that were adopted by CP Rail and Parks Canada in the form of an agreement for the Rogers Pass Development. The rationale for the adoption of...
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Since we started issuing Development and Reclamation Approvals for coal mines in 1974 we have issued Reclamation Certificates to Forestburg Collieries Limited at the Diplomat Mine, TransAlta Utilities...
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The concepts important to the regulation of reclaimed land have been evolving and will continue to evolve. We have gone from emphasis on "equal to or greater than productivity" to emphasis on...