Assessing and prioritizing environmental hazards associated with abandoned mines in Gangwon-do, South Korea: the Total Mine Hazards Index

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• 作者：Sung-Min Kim ; Jangwon Suh ; Sungchan Oh ; Jin Son…
• 关键词：Mine reclamation ; Abandoned mines ; Mine hazards ; Total Mine Hazards Index ; GIS
• 刊名：Environmental Earth Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：75
• 期：5
• 全文大小：5,086 KB
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• 作者单位：Sung-Min Kim (1)
  Jangwon Suh (2)
  Sungchan Oh (1)
  Jin Son (1)
  Chang-Uk Hyun (3)
  Hyeong-Dong Park (1)
  Seung-Han Shin (4)
  Yosoon Choi (5)
  
  1. Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-744, South Korea
  2. Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
  3. Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, 406-840, South Korea
  4. Mine Reclamation Corporation, Seoul, 110-727, South Korea
  5. Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, 608-737, South Korea
  
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：None Assigned
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1866-6299

文摘

This paper presents a new index, the Total Mine Hazards Index (TMHI), which has been developed to support reclamation planning in abandoned mining areas in Korea. The TMHI quantifies the extent of the hazards caused by mining in terms of five problem areas: (a) mine subsidence, (b) deforestation, (c) mine tailings, (d) waste rock dumps, and (e) mine water. These five mining hazards are statistically analyzed and the results are combined with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) modeling to prioritize the abandoned mines that pose the greatest hazard risk. A GIS database of mine-related information, including topographic data, land cover data, and road maps, is analyzed and used to evaluate the likely extent of mine-related pollution. As a case study, the TMHI is applied to Gangwon-do province in Korea, and the results show that the TMHI can be used to identify those mines most in need of attention and support mine reclamation planning by comprehensively quantifying the nature and extent of any hazards associated with abandoned mines.