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You may be defining a rule by the exception. You did have to find an example from 26 years ago.
by onthecanposting 3y ago
You may be defining a rule by the exception. You did have to find an example from 26 years ago.
- defrost 3y agoHow many mines do you think there are? What percentage have remediation plans? What is the lifetime of a mine? How many thousands of years ago was the first Rio Tinto mine, and when did they close it? > You did have to find an example from 26 years ago. It seems you don't know much about global mining. https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/metals-mining https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...
- defrost 3y agoMissed the edit window, apologies for the additional peer addendum. There are hundreds of thousands of examples of abandoned mines in dire need of reclaimation, btw ... in one state of one single country: Extensive mining has occurred in Western Australia since the mid-1800s resulting in tens of thousands of abandoned mine features across the Western Australia. https://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/Geological-Survey/Abandoned-Mines-Program-29296.aspx https://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/Geological-Survey/Abandoned-Mines-... There's a program to very slowly deal with as many as possible using money taxed from current and future minesites .. but this is underfunded and overwhelmed. It's a similar story in South Africa, other African states, China, Mongolia, Russia, former USSR satellites, Canada, USofA, etc. Dunno whether S&P (peer link) still do abandoned mine GIS data .. we did before we sold that to them.