Mining is necessary for maintaining society’s current lifestyle and facilitating future growth and will continue to develop at a global scale. Even if the use of some mineral resources may decline (such as coal), the need for other minerals for emerging technologies will concurrently grow. The generation of solid and liquid wastes and their discharge onto land and into waterways are arguably the greatest impacts on the environment associated with mining. The science of Geomorphology provides the best framework for understanding and quantifying stability and changes in erosion and sedimentation, which is the root of the wastes’ release to the environment from disturbed mine sites. When fluvial geomorphic processes are integrated for designing steady state and functional landforms, the mine‐rehabilitated lands can perform like stable natural ones. This process is enhanced by using Landscape Evolution Models (LEM) that simulate the evolution of landforms subjected to fluvial erosion and mass transport processes. LEM use widely accepted hydrology and erosion models under the action of runoff and erosion over variable‐time scales. Current worldwide cutting‐edge best practice in disturbed mine rehabilitation merge methods and packages for landform design and landscape evolution modelling, increasing their capabilities. This course is an introduction of what are considered some of the best available techniques, on a global scale, for Fluvial Geomorphic Design (GeoFluv – Natural Regrade) and LEM (SIBERIA) for best practice in mine rehabilitation. The practical emphasis is strong, almost totally focused in the use of specific dedicated software, taught by the best experts worldwide. It is completed with lecturers about the state of art of geomorphic mine rehabilitation and GPS machine guidance for geomorphic mine rehabilitation. Field work, discussions and networking complement the course.

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