Planning, relinquishment and legacy management

• Mine life cycle assessments
• Post-closure visioning and asset repurposing
• Closure objectives and criteria
• Planning and relinquishment
• Closure planning process
• Statutory compliance
• Managing legacy facilities
• Abandoned mines and good Samaritan cleanups

Stakeholders and community

• Socioeconomic transitioning
• Communication and improving education
• Custodial transfers
• Sustainable community capacity
• Community health and safety
• Cultural and traditional (post-mining) land uses
• Legacy management systems
• Closure of small-scale and artisanal operations

Engineering and landform design

• Landform design and ecological restoration
• Geotechnical engineering/design
• Incorporating GISTM in closure and post-closure design
• Innovated technical designs
• Habitat development and recolonization
• Rehabilitation performance monitoring
• Incorporating climate change

Water management

• Surface water control
• Erosion control
• Acid mine drainage
• Water treatment
• Pit lake modelling

Decommissioning and waste management

• Mine infrastructure decommissioning
• Construction, decommissioning, waste management
• Recycling – maximizing asset values
• Material stewardship
• Hazardous materials

Ecosystem reconstruction

• Nutrient cycling
• Pollinators
• Litters and plant–soil feedbacks
• Root establishment and soil depth
• Phytoremediation
• Plant–microbe symbionts
• Soil fertility

Financing and cost estimation

• Financing closure
• Estimating closure costs
• Estimating and financing post-closure costs
• Due diligence assessments
• Asset value creation

Site remediation and impact management

• Contaminant clean-up
• Residual impact
• Outcome-based risk management

Project management and execution

• Delivery methods
• Case studies
• Construction tolerances
• Implementing new technologies