In some cases amenity reclamation is nothing more than speeding up natural succession to encourage more rapid vegetation growth or clearing and rendering safe a rock face for geological conservation. At the other extreme it involves major manipulation of landform, soil and vegetation to make a site suitable for a range of formal sporting end uses. Between these two extremes lie a wide range of approaches and end uses, from those which seek to build on prevailing site conditions to those which largely mask all aspects of the past mineral working.