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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MINING,RECLAMATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Editorial

295 Raj K. Singhal

Guest Editorial

296 P. Sklenicka and I. Kasparová

297 Differential evolution of rockwall and

talus cones in abandoned basalt quarries

and its implications for restoration

management: case study from the Radobyl

Hill, N Czech Republic

Pavel Raska, Martin Balej and Martin Raska

313 Permeation of compacted clay

with organic fluids

Nasim Mosavat and Zalihe Nalbantoglu

321 Experimental mineral carbonation:

approaches to accelerate CO2

sequestration in mine waste materials

A.D. Jacobs and M. Hitch

332 A study of land reclamation and

ecological restoration in a resource-

exhausted city – a case study of Huaibei

in China

Wu Xiao, Zhenqi Hu, Jing Li, Heyu Zhang

and Jialiang Hu

342 Landuse change detection in a

surface coal mine area using

multi-temporal high-resolution satellite

images

Nuray Demirel, Sebnem Düzgün and

Mustafa Kemal Emil

350 The impact of vegetation cover on

temperature and humidity properties in

the reclaimed area of a brown coal dump

Jan Procházka, Jakub Brom,

Jakub St’astny and Emilie Pecharová

367 Function of vegetation in new

landscape units after brown coal mining

E. Pecharová, H. Broumová-Dusáková,

K. Novotná and I. Svoboda

ISSN 1748-0930

VOLUME 25 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 2011

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF

MINING,RECLAMATIONANDENVIRONMENT

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:

RAJ K. SINGHALMANAGING EDITORS:

ZHENQI HURICHARD POULINASSOCIATE EDITORS:

CHRIS CHIWETELURAIMONDO CICCUMOHINI SINGHAL

SPECIAL ISSUE: ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF MINING AND RECLAMATION

GUEST EDITORS: PETR SKLENICKA, IVANA KASPAROVÁ, JAN VYMAZAL,

MARIE VRBOVA AND ROBIN HEALEY

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Editor-in-chiefDr. Raj K. Singhal, P.O. Box 68002, Crowfoot PostalOutlet, 28 Crowfoot Terrace NW, Calgary, Alberta T3G 3N8,Canada. Fax: 403.241.9460; E-mail: singhal@shaw.ca;http://www.mpes.cami-swemp.com

Managing editorsProfessor Zhenqi Hu, Department of ResourcesDevelopment, China University of Mining and Technology,Beijing 100083, ChinaDr. Richard Poulin, Départment Mines et Métallurgie,Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

Associate editorsDr. Chris Chiwetelu, Federal Government of Canada,Calgary, Alberta T2G 0L1, CanadaProfessor Raimondo Ciccu, Dipartimento di Geoingegneria eTecnologie Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Cagliari,Piazza d’Armi 09123, Cagliari, ItalyMohini (Mona) Singhal, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Editorial boardDr. Derek Apel, Department of Mining Engineering,University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65409-0450, USADr. Ernest Y. Baafi, The University of Wollongong,Department of Civil and Mining Engineering, P.O. Box1144 Wollongong, NSW 2500, AustraliaDr. Christopher D. Barton, Department of Forestry,University of Kentucky, 203 Thomas Poe Cooper Building,Lexington, KY 40546-0073, USAProfessor N. Bilgin, ITU Faculty of Mines, MiningEngineering Department, Maslak-IstanbulMs Ana de Guzmán Báez, Universidad Politécnica deMadrid, Dpto. Construcción y Vías Rurales, CiudadUniversitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, SpainProfessor Bernhard Dold, Instituto de Geologia EconomicaAplicada (GEA), Universidad de Concepcion, Victor Lamas1290, 4070386 Concepcion, ChileProfessor Sevket Durucan, Department of Earth ResourcesEngineering, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College ofScience Technology & Medicine, Prince Consort Road,London SW7 2BP, UKDr. R. Fowell, Engineering and Resources ResearchInstitute, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UKProfessor S. Frimpong, Department of Mining and NuclearEngineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO65409, USADr. Kostas Fytas, Dr Jacek Paraszczak, Dr JohnHadjigeorgiou, Départment Mines et Métallurgie, UniversitéLaval, CanadaAssociate Professor Ge Hao, Guizhou Normal University,Guiyang City, China, 550001Professor Martin Haigh, Department of Social Science(Geography), Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX30BP, United KingdomProfessor Michael Karmis, Department of Mining andMinerals Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute andState University, Blacksburg, VA, USAProfessor CelaI Karpuz, Faculty of Engineering, MiddleEast Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Dr. Anna Korre, Department of Environmental Science andTechnology, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UKProfessor Anders Lagerkvist, Div. of Waste Science andTechnology, Luleå University of Technology, SE 971 87,Luleå, SwedenDr. Ian S. Lowndes, University of Nottingham, UKProfessor Pier Paolo Manca, Dipartimento di Ingegneria,Universita di Cagliari, ItalyProfessor Kikuo Matsui, Department of Earth Resourcesand Mining Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, JapanProfessor Anil K. Mehrotra, Department of Chemical andPetroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary,Alberta, CanadaDr. N. S. Melkoumian, University of Adelaide, Australia Professor Bibhu Mohanty, Department of CivilEngineering and Lassonde Institute, University of Toronto,35 St. George Street, Toronto, M5S 1A4, CanadaProfessor Hani Mitri, Department of Mining, Metals andMaterials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal,Quebec H3A 2A7, CanadaDr. Cuthbert Musingwini, School of Mining Engineering,University of the Witwatersrand, Chamber of MinesBuilding 2nd Floor, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein,Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050Professor Toyohara Nawa, Hokkaido University, JapanDr. C.M. Neculita, Korea Advanced Institute of Scienceand Technology, KoreaDr. Antonio Nieto, Associate Professor of MiningEngineering, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering,Penn State University, 122 Hosler Building, UniversityPark, PA 16802Dr. Bernadette O’Regan, Centre for EnvironmentalResearch, CES Department, University of Limerick, IrelandProfessor George N. Panagiotou, Department of Miningand Metallurgy, National Technical University, GreeceProfessor Gennadiy G. Pivnyak, National MiningUniversity of Ukraine, 49027 Dnipropetrovsk, UkraineDr. Hakan Schunnesson, Luleå University of Technology,Luleå, 97187, SwedenProfessor Malcolm J. Scoble, Department of Mining En-gineering, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, BC,V6T 1Z4, CanadaDr. Petr Sklenicka, Dean, Faculty of Environmental Science,Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 1176, 165 21Prague 6 – Suchdol, Czech RepublicProfessor Doug Stead, Department of Earth Sciences,Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby,BC, V5A1S6 CanadaProfessor Tannant, School of Mining & PetroleumEngineering, Department of Civil & EnvironmentalEngineering, 3-045 Markin, CNRL Natural ResourcesEngineering Facility, University of Alberta, Edmonton, ABTG 2W2, CanadaAssistant Professor Erkan Topal, Head of MiningEngineering, WA School of Mines, Curtin University, AustraliaDr. Somchet Vongpaisal, Natural Resources Canada,Mining and Mineral Sciences Laboratories-CANMET,Minerals and Metals Sector, 555 Booth Street, Ottawa,Ontario, K1A 0G1, Canada

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MINING,RECLAMATION AND ENVIRONMENT VOL. 25 NO. 4 2011

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