I have been fortunate enough to have visited many mines of many types around the world and have sometimes been surprised by the positive effect that an operating mine can have on supporting local biodiversity, whether by accident or design. Such positive stories are...

In my last blog I introduced the vexing mine closure issue of acid and metalliferous drainage, or AMD. Acid drainage is a major environmental challenge for the global mining industry, but there are some creatively-minded people who have discovered value in issues as...

…or to put it another way, acid mine drainage, or AMD, or acid rock drainage, or ARD, or acid and metalliferous drainage, or AMD, or abandoned mine drainage, or AMD… It is arguably the world’s most significant mining environmental challenge, yet the semantics of its...

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Cornwall, UK, produced over half the world’s copper and tin, predominantly from deep, wet, hard rock mines. The technology, techniques and know-how which was developed to win such ores was taken around the world during the diasporas...

Today Future Terrains launches its first awareness-raising campaign. We are calling it #MineClosurePerspectives and it considers the issues of mine closure and mining legacies through the lens of photography. It hopes to broaden perspectives among mining stakeholders...

As outlined elsewhere on this website Future Terrains exists to tackle the challenge of degraded lands by enhancing environmental and social performance and promoting landscape restoration. One of half this mission statement explicitly focuses on ‘landscape...