Land Management Resources

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...

Recent rehabilitation project experience has shown that developing an overall property rehabilitation strategy that considers all of the physical mine hazards on a site or in an area can have cost...

The concept of mining the residual gold left by underground mines is not new within Timmins as it has been done at the Dome Mine and Pamour Mine. Given that the Hollinger Mine was the most prolific...

Building on previous studies of Technosols manufactured from crushed waste rock and board mill residuals (20:80) for use in mine reclamation, this study investigates the additions of selected soil...