Clint McCullough (MiWER), Mark Lund (MiWER) Can Australian pit lakes be used for sustainable enduses for mining companies, communities or the environment? Being a finite abstraction, “sustainable mining” is something of an oxymoron for what is inherently unsustainable activity. Nevertheless, in an era of increasing recognition of environmental and social damage through an ever-growing scale of mining coupled with increasing corporate social conscience for these activities, the mining industry usually works to reduce operational risk and retain its “social licence to mine” the community resource through a variety of strategies. Figure: Conceptual beneficial end uses for pit lakes…
Opportunities for Sustainable Mining by Beneficial Pit Lake End Uses
