Distribution and ecological restoration of abandoned open-pit mines in Jiangsu section of the Yangtze River Economic Belt

The abandoned mines along the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province is the key area along the Yangtze River Economic Belt, which need to be restored and governed. Among the ecological restoration projects, it has been one of the difficulties that how to quickly and intuitively track the progress of the distribution and restoration of a great many abandoned mines in the region. In this paper, the author takes the 10 km area on both sides of the Belt as study object. And selects high-resolution remote sensing images in each year from 2017 to 2020 as the data source. By human-computer interactive interpretation on the ArcGIS platform and field verification, the author obtains the information such as the distribution of open-pit abandoned mines, geological environment problems and ecological restoration in the study area. This paper mainly focus on the geological environment problems existing in abandoned mines and summarizes the ecological restoration measures. It is shown that it ’s a wide area need to be restored in Zhenjiang and Nanjing. The area of open-pit abandoned mines mainly focus on the quarries and transit sites of the mines, with construction limestone and construction sand mines as the main types of mines involved. The environmental problems mainly include topography and geomorphological destruction, geological disasters, ecological environment damage and soil and water pollution, etc. And the part rehabilitated and being rehabilitated of the study area show an increasing trend from 2018 to 2020. As of October 2020, the restoration area of abandoned mines has been effective, with 67.08% of the area restored. The main ecological restoration measures include natural restoration, soil backfilling, land leveling, slope cutting and integrated land management. It is recommended that the original landform of the mining area should be protected to the maximum extent and the land resources fully utilized when carrying out restoration and treatment. The results and suggestions provide technical reference for the ecological restoration and treatment of open-pit abandoned mines in the same type of area.