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Aggregate mining and rehabilitation

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In the past 10 years the Government of Ontario has taken a leadership role in assessing the quantity, quality, and distribution characteristics of aggregate resources in that Province. Concomitant with that has been a drive to determine operational standards, design criteria and rehabilitation programmes that more closely reflect contemporary social and environmental expectations and how they might be imposed on aggregate producers. That the problem is not simply a technological one has become apparent and this article stresses the wide range of interests and concerns that practitioners in the mining/rehabilitation field should be aware of.

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  2. One of the few such statements appears inA. G. McLellan, Derelict Land in Ontario—Environmental Crime of Economic Shortsightedness.Bulletin of the Conservation Council of Ontario, 1973, Vol. 20, No. 4, 9–14. It is clear that surface mining is the main cause of abandoned/derelict land. It is equally clear that under the new Pits & Quarries Control Act such land will not be generated nor tolerated.

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  1. Department of Geography, Associate Dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    A. G. McLellan (Associate Professor)

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McLellan, A.G. Aggregate mining and rehabilitation. Minerals and the Environment 1, 31–35 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02010595

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