Abstract
Land reclamation after surface mining goes back half a century or more and, in Britain and the Commonwealth, was often a mandatory clause in leases for surface mining undertakings, but frequently an alternative clause was available by which compensation of so much per acre could be paid in place of land restoration.
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Sinclair, J. (1969). Reclamation after Surface Mining. In: Quarrying Opencast and Alluvial Mining. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7611-8_14
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