RECLAMATION OF OPENCUT SPOIL PILES.

Utah Development Company is engaged in an extensive program to reclaim the spoil piles created at its four Central Queensland open cut coal mines. Adherence to those plans and full integration of the reclamation activities in the mining operation are the basis of a successful reclamation effort. This article outlines the program developed to meet the reclamation aims and not the detailed studies which have been undertaken, at successive stages, to determine the specific guidelines.