The LIFE RIBERMINE project has been selected to be featured in the Atlas of Post-Mining Futures, an international platform bringing together innovative examples of the restoration and transformation of mining areas.
The work carried out by LIFE RIBERMINE in Lousal, Portugal, and Peñalén, Spain, has thus gained a new international dimension, becoming part of this digital platform dedicated to the future of territories following mining activities.
The Atlas of Post-Mining Futures, developed by the Cooperative Research Centre for Transforming Mining Economies (CRC TiME) in Australia, brings together cases from around the world that demonstrate new ways of thinking about the recovery, reuse and transformation of areas affected by extractive activities. In this first edition, LIFE RIBERMINE is among the 12 selected cases.
The project’s inclusion in the Atlas provides an opportunity to showcase, to an international audience, the approach developed by LIFE RIBERMINE for the restoration of degraded mining areas. The project combines geomorphological restoration, soil recovery, revegetation using native species and, in the case of Lousal, measures to remediate acid mine drainage, seeking to restore not only the landscape but also ecosystem functioning.
Throughout the project, the methodologies developed and applied in the two intervention areas were also subject to knowledge transfer and dissemination activities involving other organisations and mining contexts. The final LIFE RIBERMINE report records, among other results, the transfer of these methodologies to 11 mining organisations in Spain, Sweden and Colombia.
Being featured in the Atlas of Post-Mining Futures therefore represents another opportunity to share the experience of LIFE RIBERMINE and contribute to the international debate on the restoration and future of territories shaped by mining activities.
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The LIFE RIBERMINE project is funded by the European Union’s LIFE Programme and aims to contribute to the ecological restoration of degraded mining areas through the application and transfer of restoration techniques based on the natural functioning of ecosystems.
