In terms of the site infrastructures, the result of the mining operation will be an inversion of the local hydrology with water shedding into the pits left by the excavation.  The road infrastructure will be acknowledged by the remaining rail lines within the site and continue to be at spatial odds with the surrounding landscape.  The buffer zone of vegetation will still be present and maintain its mask-like qualities as it defines the perimeter as the visual envelope of the site. 
Because the intent of this proposal is to envision all that this site holds as a commodity, it would be unfortunate for that intention to become stifled at this point.  In its condition as a voided landscape of objectified civic infrastructure, the site could only be "industrial" or remain a ruin of industry.  Building in this landscape however, would challenge all conventions of this type of development.  
Rethinking the industrial park.

     A pre-existing road infrastructure does not necessarily imply a buildings relationship to it. 

     Through the objectification of the road infrastructure, the principle space of this "precinct" would be independent of the "street-space" mentality 
     of conventional urban planning.  (The street no longer is the space of dense urbanity)  Therefore, this makes the pre-existing infrastructure 
     subordinate to the external space plan yet integral to its creation. 

     The simultaneous building of both earth and architecture allows for a full engagement of one another and makes possible new relationships 
     between the perceivably "natural" and the artifice of architecture. 

     The inverted hydrology of the site, and the possibility of drawing the buffer zones inward, brings water and vegetation into the equation of 
     space-making with the previously mentioned earth and architecture. 

THE END OF "THE END" 
mining operation