ABSTRACT
Despite of positive impacts of mining activities on world economy, mining operations also caused unavoidably negative impacts on surrounding environment. Mine reclamation is one of the most important stages of the mining activities in line with the basic principles of sustainable development. Mine reclamation is a progressive activity, starts from the initial phase of mining and eventually leads to the preparation of all mined land areas such as pit, waste dump and tailing dam for Post-Mining Land-Use (PMLU). The PMLU can deeply affect on expenses and implementation of reclamation activities. In this study, different post-mining land-uses are evaluated in the Choghart iron ore mine which is located in Yazd province of Iran, by using a combination of PROMETHEE and A Superiority and Inferiority Ranking (SIR) techniques. According to the results, revegetaion with native species is the optimal PMLU solution for whole mined land of Choghart iron ore mine.
