geomorphic landform design
Geomorphic landform designs mimic and perform as natural landforms do. Functionally they are the same and offer minimal erosion: they are mature from the outset.
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Are you restoring a site suitable for endangered species?
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Do you need to satisfy a community with a visually pleasing landscape option?
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Must you demonstrate to a regulator how geomorphic landforms outperform existing and conventional mine site dump designs?
These actual scenarios underpin why geomorphic principles of rehabilitation have become the standard on numerous international projects. The uniqueness of this approach has seen it gain approval and be applied where traditional methods have not.
From a risk-based perspective, geomorphic designs satisfy and
achieve the following key goals,
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Erosion control
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Risk reduction
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Maximisation of post-mining land use.
See this background image? It is a real post-mining reclamation now used for grazing. No traditionally designed waste dump has ever offered such usefulness.
A geomorphic reclamation and the still-active mine at upper right
Describing geomorphic design principles on site
Mine operators, regulators and researchers learning in the field
A geomorphically constructed landform complete with graded channels...
...blends seamlessly into the natural surface at right
THE BIG PICTURE
Professional mine closure and rehabilitation requires a complete and fully integrated mine closure service from feasibility planning to relinquishment.
The GeoFluv method of geomorphic reclamation has proven to be the most effective means of rehabilitating disturbed environments, especially mines.
It is more cost effective than traditionally engineered methods and regulators increasingly prefer geomorphic methods of rehabilitation because of its many clearly demonstrated benefits.
This approach is recognised as the best available technique by the European Union and is an industry award winner across North America.
Naturally Spatial is part of an international team specialising in mine closure and landform design in Australia, the USA and Europe.