TY - JOUR N2 - This article presents a concept method which aids the forecasting of the reclamation cost in post- rock mining areas. The method may also prove useful in estimating the investment profitability of a mining operation at its planning stage as well as managing a potential Reserve Fund to cover future activities, such as land reclamation. The development of the method consisted in defining a set of basic/typical land reclamation directions and the typical structure of reclamation operations/works, which are based on “statistically stable” values. The estimations included the distribution of the probable cost of these works with respect to the reclamation direction and were calculated on the basis of the analyzed current price lists and historical land reclamation projects. The article proposes a method for estimating the cost structure of multi-directional projects by combining the basic directions. The changeability and predictability of various land reclamation solutions was analyzed in terms of fuzzy logic. A price list was developed, which included unit costs for separate types of reclamation works, independent of their type and scale. The assumed optimal measure involved comparing the cost of individual types of operations to the surface of the reclamation area. As an example, the method was also applied to hypothetical data from a clastic rock mine with a surface of 20 ha, and for the forest, agricultural and forest-agricultural reclamation directions. The forest-agricultural reclamation directions was presented in the proportions of 0.3:0.7. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/112132/PDF/ka%C5%BAmierczak-i-inni.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/112132 PY - 2019 IS - No 4 EP - 176 DO - 10.24425/gsm.2019.128537 KW - reclamation KW - reclamation costs KW - rock mining A1 - Kaźmierczak, Urszula A1 - Malewski, Jerzy A1 - Strzałkowski, Paweł PB - Komitet Zrównoważonej Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi PAN PB - Instytut Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi i Energią PAN VL - vol. 35 DA - 2019.12.27 T1 - The concept of forecasting the reclamation costin rock mining SP - 163 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/112132 T2 - Gospodarka Surowcami Mineralnymi - Mineral Resources Management ER -