Abstract Pit lakes may present significant risks to ecological and human receiving environments but can also provide beneficial end use opportunities. The understanding of many processes that influence the magnitude these opportunities remains limited, even where our is adequate, application knowledge not consistently applied. From initial planning long-term closure, regulation corporate manage...

Recently, the mining industry has introduced renewable energy technologies to resolve power supply problems at mines operating in polar regions or other remote areas, and to foster substitute industries, able to benefit from abandoned sites of exhausted mines. However, little attention has been paid to the potential placement of floating photovoltaic (PV) systems operated on mine pit lakes beca...

Flooding the remaining gaps of lignite open-pits and formation so-called open-pit lakes tends to become an increasingly common practice in Romania (in Oltenia Mining Basin, where deposit contained Dacian Romanian formations was is extracted through open-pits). This type ecological reconstruction former exploitation areas has been applied worldwide for quite a time, there are many references thi...

Abstract The habitat quality of the littoral zone is key importance for almost all lentic fish species. In anthropogenically created gravel pit lakes, often structurally homogenized with limited habitats. We supplemented deadwood brush piles in eight lakes and investigated diurnal seasonal use this other typical microhabitats by six dominant Shoreline habitats were sampled using point abundance...

With the rapid development of urban transportation facilities, their construction inevitably encounters unfavorable conditions, such as rivers and lakes. When using weir method to build facilities in lakes, design scheme for pit slope excavation inside cofferdam is related success or failure construction. In this study, excavations lakes discussed analyzed numerical simulation on-site monitorin...

Coal mine generated open pit lakes are well distributed in Raniganj coal field area, West Bengal, India. This paper screened out ecological state macrophyte index (ESMI), water quality (WQI) and multivariate statistical methods to assess the status of four lakes, Nagrakonda, Joyalbhanga, Dalurbandh, Kumardihi. Seven parameters (pH, total dissolved solids, oxygen, Secchi depth nitrate, chloride,...

Pit lakes in the Lausitz lignite mining district of Germany are diverse in size and morphometry. Many are extremely acidic with pH ≤ 3 and high in iron concentrations. Productivity in most of the mining lakes is generally low and they support only simple food webs; a few of the acidic lakes, with high nutrient concentrations, are highly productive. State planners hope to develop the lake region...