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 reclamation program dedicated to reclamation of disturbances associated with past and present -mining and exploration activities. Since that time, over 1400 acres have been treated using modified forestry and agricultural techniques with encouraging results.
Reclamation of a variety of mined land and exploration sites has been successful using techniques of resloping, seeding, planting, harrowing and fertilizing.
The techniques presently being used in the exploration-reclamation section, that is pre-planning of disturbances on sensitivity maps, monitoring and supervision of exploration work, resloping, terracing, ripping and seeding, and watercourse restoration are resulting in a more orderly and less damaging exploration program.