A first-of-its-kind report led by The Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute aims to improve mining industry practice of how to define and measure successful mine-site rehabilitation criteria.
Dr Marit Kragt, from The University of Western Australia’s School of Agriculture and Environment, co-authored the report, A framework for developing mine-site completion criteria in Western Australia. Dr Kragt said the report provided a framework for developing site-specific, risk-based criteria that mine operators could use to demonstrate they had successfully rehabilitated the site after mining.
The project responded to an industry need to understand how to best measure rehabilitation success, set achievable and measurable outcomes and appropriate completion criteria that were accepted by all stakeholders involved, according to Dr Kragt.
“During the study we identified several bottle-necks to developing acceptable mine completion criteria,” she said.
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