Mining for Closure – Policies and guidelines for sustainable mining practice and closure of mines aims to present a basis for action within South Eastern Europe (SEE) and within the Tisza River Basin (TRB) towards the development of corporate practice, regulatory frameworks, governance guidelines and/or financial and insurance markets suitable for the support of a modern mining industry.

It presents a number of options and ideas that can be applied to address the funding and execution of mine closure and mine rehabilitation while still achieving conditions suitable for new and ongoing mining activities.

It also provides details of many important information sources and is intended as a checklist and guidebook on “best practices” related to mining, useful for an audience far beyond the mining industry, including government, NGOs, international organizations and the general public.

Mining for Closure is a publication of the Environment and Security Initiative prepared under the direction of the initiative partners – the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as an associate partner. 

This publicarion was released during the ENVSEC Advisory Board Meeting in Bratislava, 29-30 September 2005.