Ressources de Gestion des Terres

Port Colborne, Ontario, has an area of nearly 30km2 that has been contaminated by emissions from a nickel (Ni) refinery that was in operation between 1918 and 1984. Emissions from the process of...

In many cases there are opportunities to plan and manage extraction using innovative and creative techniques such as biodiversity offsetting to mitigate potential environmental impacts. Biodiversity...

The introduction of select low-cost biochars at active and legacy mine sites could alter the reclamation scenario dramatically. Biochar is the term given to any pyrolyzed biomass material that is...

The Hollinger Gold Mine was one of the richest producing mines in the western hemisphere and operated between 1910 and 1968 as an underground operation within the City of Timmins. With the closure of...

Contaminated soil from the Kam Kotia mine site and comparable uncontaminated soil (control treatment) was analyzed by the Queen’s Analytical Services Unit using Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic...

The application of Technosols manufactured from industrial waste materials for use in mine reclamation is of interest due to the lower associated environmental and economic costs. Long-term studies of...

The National Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Initiative (NOAMI) was created in 2002 at the request of the Canadian Mines Ministers, and based on recommendations put forward at a multistakeholder workshop...

In recent years, the steady, reliable, and secure supply of critical metals has become increasingly important to major industrialized economies that seek to sustain their industrial base and develop...

Successful rehabilitation, reclamation or closure of massive soil and vegetation disturbances from mining requires a comprehensive and holistic approach. Those overseeing rehabilitation efforts should...

Following the closure of the No. 4 Shaft, a grocer named Anthony Giachino purchased the building and constructed Giachino’s Grocery, enclosing the headframe with the store building in 1926 (Brown...