Use of soil amendments to increase reclamation success of a dry mine tailings site in the southern interior of BC

加拿大公司负责全球近一半的采矿活动，采矿业务 在加拿大扩张；为国家创造就业机会和收入，并为社会提供必要的资源。 KGHM阿贾克斯项目是位于不列颠哥伦比亚省坎卢普斯附近的一个拟议矿山，目前正处于运营和环境保护阶段 规划阶段。省政府已将环境保护确定为重点 这是矿产勘探和采矿的组成部分。为了实现这一目标，不列颠哥伦比亚省矿业法包括 矿场关闭。生态修复是一个发展中的科学领域，它的理想定位是提供 成功恢复采矿中金属开采造成的受干扰土地的知识工具 进程。我们提出了一种以尾矿为材料的完全析因试验设计，以检验植物种类的影响。 种子成分(土生土长的和农艺的)，一株保育植物(鼠尾草)和作为碳补充的灰烬 土壤和植物群落的发展。这项研究将为 修复KGHM国际有限公司拥有的一个历史悠久的Afton尾矿储存设施。 对不列颠哥伦比亚省南部内陆其他矿山未来尾矿的回收也是至关重要的。

Canadian companies are responsible for nearly half of mining activities worldwide, and mining operations are expanding in Canada; creating jobs and revenue for the country and providing necessary resources for society. The KGHM Ajax project is a proposed mine near Kamloops, BC that is in its operational and environmental planning phase. The provincial government has identified the protection of the environment as a key component of mineral exploration and mining. Towards this goal, the BC Mines Act includes legislation for mine closure. Ecological restoration is a developing field of science that is ideally positioned to provide the knowledge tools for successful recovery of disturbed lands due to the extraction of metals in the mining process. We propose a fully factorial experimental design on mine tailings to test the effect of plant species seed composition (natives and agronomics), a nurse plant (sage brush) and ash as a carbon supplement on the development of the soil and plant communities. The research will provide essential information for the restoration of an historic Afton tailings storage facility owned by KGHM International Ltd. The information will also be critical for future reclamation of mine tailings at other mines in the southern interior of BC.