land reclamation

Reclamation is returning the land to the way it was before mining
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Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill , is the process of creating new land from ocean, riverbeds, or, lake.

Land reclamation is a process of improving disturbed land to achieve land capability equivalent to the predistrubed condition.

John Rudolph Oxenham has written:

'Reclaiming derelict land' -- subject(s): Reclamation of land, Waste lands

'Reclamation of derelict land' -- subject(s): Reclamation of land, Waste lands