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Rehabilitation after bauxite mining in south-western australia

1985; Elsevier BV; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0304-3924(85)90071-1

1878-139X

O.G. Nichols, BA Carbon, I.J. Colquhoun, James T. Croton, Nicholas Murray,

Coal and Its By-products

Alcoa of Australia Ltd. mines bauxite in the Darling Ranges of south-western Australia. The company must operate within major environmental constraints, associated with competitive land uses, to ensure on-going access to ore reserves. A programme has been designed to manage environmental aspects of mine planning, rehabilitation operations and post-rehabilitation monitoring. This paper describes current pre- and post-mining operational and research programmes. Procedures which minimise land-use conflicts and restore or maintain pre-mining forest functions are outlined.