Legal, Engineering, Environmental and Social Perspectives of Surface Mining Law and Reclamation by Landfilling: Getting Maximum Yield from Surface Mines

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Since mining is a basic and essential industry, it cannot be done away with as many environmentalists would like. It provides the raw materials for medicines, building materials for shelters, schools, hospitals, roads, fuels for heating and energy, metals for transportation (cars, airplanes and ships), machinery, communications infrastructure and other conveniences. What would modern life be without minerals?Miners are the harvesters of the earth's fruits. To reap those fruits, the earth must be plowed up. After harvesting, the plowed fields can be reclaimed and restored to pristine, natural beauty without lasting damage to the earth.Reclamation of surface mines can profitably utilise the void space for burial of society's solid wastes while restoring the mined land surfaces to their original beauty or utility. Industry and environmentalists should rejoice