Rehabilitated land at a Scaw Metals operationThe process of developing the optimal rehabilitation strategy for a given operation differs not only from country to country but from site to site. We are, however, increasingly moving towards a risk-based approach to the evaluation and comparison of the options available.
This takes full account of the contingent capital and operating costs associated with each possible option, as well as legal, societal, environmental and corporate factors.
We have a total of 645,588 hectares of land under our management, of which 86,702 have been disturbed by our mining, processing and mineral-waste disposal operations and supporting infrastructure.
In the interests of achieving the best possible environmental outcomes and of reducing our eventual closure liabilities, we make every effort to rehabilitate as much land as possible during a site’s operational life. To date, around 15,008 hectares of disturbed land has been rehabilitated.