Guidelines for post-mining reclamation were generally less stringent than they are today.

Here the mineral is probably a post-mining product.

Because Devilline occurs in such oxidation zones, this mineral often is of post-mining origin.

It is less common in Pandanus thickets, dense regrowth and post-mining wasteland.

Post-mining processing includes pulverisation, to maximise thermal yields when the coal is burnt in one of the surrounding power stations.

Some significant post-mining industries were automobile producers DAF and Nedcar in Born.

Stumbo advocates creating new usable land for recreational opportunities from strip mining techniques, as well as for other forms of post-mining economic reclamation.

With ownership of the pollution and control of the land, they say, comes the power to shape the post-mining landscape in a way that goes far beyond just cleaning it up.

Arizona Mined Land Reclamation Plan Approval is a plan for post-mining operations to correct the disturbed land used for mining.

Depending on surface land owner wishes the land will then be further reclaimed by adding trees if the pre-approved post-mining land use is forest land or wildlife habitat.

Many centuries of human activity, in particular underground mining and metal smelting, left the area covered with unused water retention pools, post-mining sinkholes, tailings and slag heaps.

Exceptions are provided when a community or surface owner is in need of flat or gently rolling terrain, acceptable post-mining land uses include commercial, residential, recreational, agricultural or public facility improvements.

If the land owner has requested other post-mining land uses the land can be reclaimed to be used as pasture land, economic development or other uses specified in SMCRA.

When mining ends, operators must restore the land to its approximate original contour (AOC) or leave the land graded and suitable for a "higher and better" post-mining land use (PMLU) that has been approved as part of the original mining permit application.