Impacts from Topsoil Stockpile Height on Soil Geochemical Properties in Two Mining Operations in British Columbia: Implications for Restoration Practices
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Mining activities are often severely disruptive to the landscape, and a major barrier reclamation after mining is lack of quality topsoil. This research addresses knowledge gaps in industry by exploring compositional nature topsoil stockpiles their ability facilitate post-mining revegetation long-term storage. To do this, we conducted an extensive profile characterization two at operations interior British Columbia, where soil geochemical properties were investigated. Both showed reduced significant changes compared reference soils. Importantly, there was accumulation metals reduction nutrients with increasing stockpile depth one or both stockpiles. These results highlight important influence topsoil-stockpile height on properties, which ultimately influences success restoration. provides insights into response geochemistry across gradient disturbed
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عنوان ژورنال: Mining
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2673-6489']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/mining2020017