The Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation produces quality research at the cutting edge of issues in mining environmental management and sustainability, across the full spectrum of resource commodities, with skills in remote sensing, plant biology and ecology, biogeochemistry, ecological engineering, chemical engineering and soil biology.
Our capabilities and expertise have developed and evolved over the years to meet the future knowledge needs of the sector and its stakeholders but broadly can be categorised into a number of key thematic areas.
- Ecological Engineering and Rehabilitation of Mine Wastes
- Ecosystem structure and function
- Stable landforms and sustainable substrates
- Water and contaminants in the landscape
- Monitoring and mapping technologies
- Mine closure and end use planning
Ecological Engineering in Mining group
Developing technologies to rehabilitate metal mine tailings and other waste domains to improve economic and ecological sustainability; produce cost-effective remediation of contaminated land; create new knowledge on the biogeochemistry of engineered tailings-soil formation, ecophysiology of native plants and ecological linkages in soil-plant systems.
Ecosystem Assessment, Restoration and Resilience group
Assessing the impacts of mining activities on flora and fauna; develop innovative approaches to restore ecosystem services and practices that encourage recolonisation by native species; examine the resilience of ecosystems under specific disturbance regimes; discover and understand the utility of metallophyte plants; create approaches for the recovery and sustainability of disturbed land.