Environmental Engineering Reference
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Rejects, sand, and
alluvial debris
Tin mining ponds
FIGURE 5.15
(See color insert.)
Tin mining slurry ponds obtained as a result of hydraulic dredging and pumping.
Reclamation of ponds is necessary to accommodate expansion of housing units seen at left of the picture (and
left of the canal).
Leave slurry
tailings pond in
as is
state
Implement monitoring and
safety requirements
Fulfills
landscape
sustainability
requirements
Return to
ab
initio
landscape and physical
features
4 Rs techniques
Reclamation
Remediation
Restoration
Rehabilitation
Freshwater pond
Keeping it wet
Wetlands
Land quality and land
use capability
Take it to dry
New land use options
require new
sustainability indicators
Land use options
FIGURE 5.16
Sustainable land use in the context of slurry tailings pond. Options range from nonsustainable to enhanced
land use and new sustainability scenarios.
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