Documents
Please find below links to key documents/ libraries concerned with post-mining regeneration issues. This list is updated regularly. If you come across any not on this list, please let us know through the contact us page.
GENERAL
Framework for Responsible Mining: A Guide to Evolving Standards - multi-stakeholder initiative seeking to improve, and catalyze debate on, the mining industry's sustainability performance
ABANDONED MINES, INTERNATIONAL
Mining for the Future. Appendix C: Abandoned Mines Working Paper. MMSD no. 28. Van Zyl, D, Sassoon, M, Fleury, A, Kyeyune, S and MMSD (2002)
ABANDONED MINES, USA
USEPA Abandoned Mine Lands Program, Technical Reports - primarily documents on the biochemistry of mine sites and their remediation
USGS Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative Reports - focusing on watershed approaches to the remediation of abandoned mines
MINE CLOSURE, INTERNATIONAL
Mine Closure - The 21st Century Approach. Avoiding Future Abandoned Mines. Hoskin, WMA. 2002.
Mining for Closure. Policies and Guidelines for Sustainable Mining Practice and Closure of Mines. Peck, P (2005)
When It's Over: Mine Closure Around the World. World Bank and International Finance Corporation. (2002)
An International Overview of Legal Frameworks for Mine Closure. Clark, AL & Cook Clark, J
Research on Mine Closure Policy. Cochilco. MMSD Working Paper. Cochilco. (2002)
Mining for the Future. Appendix B: Mine Closure Working Paper. MMSD no.34. (2002)
MINE CLOSURE, AUSTRALIA
Guidelines for Mine Closure Planning in Queensland. Queensland Mining Council (2001)