Landform design is an emerging process used to successfully reconstruct mine land. It allows industry, regulators, and communities to work together to manage costs and risks, minimize liability, and produce progressively reclaimed landscapes with confidence and pride. Done well, landform design leads to a positive mining legacy — it is a pillar of sustainable mining.

This site provides landform design practitioners and those interested in this emerging field with useful principles, tools, and case histories.  We hope to create a worldwide community of landform designers. The preliminary Strategic Plan sets out the Institute’s proposed objectives for Governance, Leadership, and Education in landform design.

Over the next year, the Institute will be seeking sponsors and offering other opportunities to participate in our mission.