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Post Mining Land Use

Recommercialisation with new mining technologies
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  2. Solutions that enable the cost-effective recovery of secondary minerals from mining waste can unlock valuable critical and strategic mineral resources and may offset the costs of mine rehabilitation activities.
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Rehabilitation to Pre-Mining State
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  2. Mine rehabilitation is the return of disturbed land to a safe, stable, non-polluting condition that supports a post-mining land use (PMLU). In Queensland, grazing and native ecosystems are the most commonly proposed PMLU...
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Repurposing for new commercial enterprises
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  2. Repurposing mineral waste may reduce the burden of waste management and generate cost-effective products. Converted waste products can support mine rehabilitation processes. For example, a common practice of waste repurp...
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xCentury Mine, Queensland - Commercial Recovery of zinc from tailings
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  2. Commercial recovery of zinc concentrate from tailings through hydraulic mining techniques....
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xMt Carbine, Queensland – Tailings processed to recover tungsten minerals
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  2. Australia’s only primary tungsten producer, EQ Resources, is processing waste from an historic Far North Queensland mine to produce the critical mineral in increasing demand around the world, while creating good job jo...
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xMt Morgan, Queensland – Reprocessing to recover gold and copper.
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  2. Mt Morgan is located in Queensland and was the largest gold mine in the world at its peak in the early 1900s. Over its lifespan, the mine yielded approximately 262 metric tons of gold, 37 metric tons of silver and 387,00...
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