In Poland sulphur is extracted at an open-pit mine in Machów, and in Grzybów, Jeziórko, Basznia and Osiek mines it is extracted via bore-holes. Open-pit mining modelled on the brown coal extraction method disturbs the environment by creating extensive, deep pits and piles of tailings, and by creating sedimentation lagoons of flotation waste which are very difficult to restore and reclaim. Apart from all this, open mining affects the landscape, interferes with water reserves, alters the soil and even effects the local climate. Drilling for sulphur extraction destroys the land surface when exploratory bore-holes are drilled and industrial infrastructure as derricks and transmission lines is set up. During the mining operations and later, there are deformations of the rock mass and land surface: depressions and subsidence. Reclaiming such land restores it for use, mainly at open-pit mine sites, but there are no effective methods for reclaiming areas where sulphur has been extracted by drilling. In Poland's changed economic conditions, the cost of reclamation has become one of the factors which will decide the future of the Polish sulphur mining industry.