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Species testing for rehabilitation of coal mine sites for timber production and carbon sequestration

Species testing for rehabilitation of coal mine sites for timber production and carbon sequestration

Specifications

  • Scope:
    • Establishment of trial hardwood plantations on ex-pasture land and rehabilitated mine spoil
    • Species testing for rehabilitation of coal mine sites for timber production and carbon sequestration
    • Design, establishment and monitoring of replicated species trials
    • Site clean up, cultivation, seedling production, trial layout, planting, fertilising, weed control, fencing, monitoring and reporting.
  • Benefit to Client:

    The trial plantation enabled the client to understand the potential to deliver productive post-mining land uses and mitigate its carbon liability through mine rehabilitation and buffer land management, achieving multiple outcomes from a single set of activities. The project established the viability of hardwood plantations as an option for mine spoil rehabilitation, and inclusion of this option in rehabilitation objectives that provide a positive legacy for the community post mine closure.

  • Market Sector: Mining
  • Capabilities:
    • Mine site, tailings dam and degraded land rehabilitation
    • Carbon bio-sequestration
    • Research Services
  • Location: Queensland
  • Year: 2009 - 2010 - 2011