Mine closure has become an important environmental issue worldwide. To ensure that mines are closed in a way that long term pollution of receiving water courses is minimized, special techniques have been developed in recent years. This session will address mine closure strategies in the view of mine water and related aspects of subsidence, reclamation bonding, long term monitoring, meeting a changing regulatory framework, public perception issues and impact of a changing climate.
Monday Afternoon
| Author | Title |
| Breckenridge, Larry | Evapotranspiration Caps for Mine Waste Closure – Case Studies in Extreme Environments (O) |
| Cidu, Rosa; Frau, Franco | Natural attenuation of contaminants in mine drainage at abandoned mining sites (O) |
| Clark, Sharon; Muhlbauer, Ritva | Mine Closure Water Management: Choosing the Right Alternative within a Changing Environment (O) |
| Dickin, Rob; Mills, R.; Bright, D.; Runnells, J. | Assessment of Atlin -Ruffner Abandoned Metal Mine, BC, Canada (O) |
| Dye, Peter John; Weiersbye, Isabel Margrethe | The Mine Woodlands Project in the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa: research strategy and progress (O) |
| Gantar, Ivan; Dolenc, Peter; Paul, Michael; Metschies, Thomas | Remediation of an Uranium Mining Waste Rock Pile in Slovenia (O) |
| Johnson, Raymond H.; Yoshino, Miori E.; Hall, Susan M.; Shea, Valois R. | Predictive Modeling Strategies for Operations and Closure at Uranium In-Situ Recovery Mines (O) |
| K. Bauer, Johannes | Closure of an open pit and landfill excavated earth (P) |
| Lim, Eddy; Beckett, Kirsty; Jaen, Wilhelm; Kumar, Atish | Probabilistic Analysis of mine void salinity and lake level associated with climate change (O) |
| Mara, Septimius; Vlad, Serban-Nicolae | Integrated quality environmental monitoring and warning-alarming system for emergencies due to technical accidents at waste deposits in mining industry (O) |
| Metschies, Thomas; Becker, Martin; König, Christoph; Jenk, Ulf | Modelling of the hydraulic and geochemical conditions of deep mine flooding in a regional aquifer system (O) |
| Nelson, Mark Richard; Hazen, Gary L; Fundingsland, Steven D | Mine Water Remediation at Large-Scale Metal Mines: Balancing Near-Term Investments for Source Control with Long-Term Investments for Collection and Treatment (O) |
| Santofimia, Esther; López-Pamo, Enrique | Influence of runoff and groundwater inflow in the stratification developed in the Concepción pit lake (Iberian Pyrite Belt, Spain) (P) |
| Spychak, Yuriy N. | Closure Coal And Potassium Mines In Ukraine (P) |
| Touchinski, Sergei | Assessment of a Potential Overturn in the End-pit Lakes and the Effect on Water Quality (P) |
| Villain, Lucile; Alakangas, Lena; Öhlander, Björn | Geochemical Evaluation of Mine Water Quality in an Open-pit Site Restored by Backfilling and Covering (O) |
