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Closure performance refers to the activities near and after mine closure and how well activities listed in the closure plan are carried out. A mine begins to close the day it opens. Decisions made during the mine planning and development phase – and even earlier, during the exploration phase – have profound effects on the ultimate closure ...
Care and maintenance is a term used in the mining industry to describe processes and conditions on a closed mine site at which there is the potential to recommence operations at a later date. During the care and maintenance phase, production is stopped but the site is managed to ensure it remains in a safe and stable condition.
Closure planning, a relative newcomer to mine planning, continues throughout the life of a mine, starting with conceptual closure plans prior to production, periodic updates throughout the life of the mine, and a final decommissioning plan. This is captured more coherently in the Australian Model to mine closure. [3] [4]
Mar. 15—Duke Energy continues efforts to close coal ash ponds, or basins, at its former Wabash River Generating Station along the Wabash River, according to a utility spokeswoman. The work ...
The Fernald Closure Project is a program run by the United States Department of Energy to clean up the former uranium processing site Fernald Feed Materials Production Center. In 1990, Congress approved closure of the site and environmental cleanup of the facility.
The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km 2) – roughly equivalent to half the total area of Rhode Island – within Benton County, Washington. [1] [2] It is a desert environment receiving less than ten inches (250 mm) of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation.
The demolition of a pedestrian bridge looks set to happen in May as part of a multi-million pound development in Lincoln. Lincolnshire Co-op has outline planning permission to build a hotel on the ...
An MP has come out against proposals to shut an NHS walk-in centre which has already once been saved from closure. NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board said it was looking at shutting the ...