Mine Rehabilitation Handbook - Mining and Blasting

General
• Best Practice Environmental Management in Mining 1995 –
Rehabilitation & Revegetation – Environmental Protection Agency.
• Best Practice Environmental Management in Mining 1995
– Tailings Containment – Environmental Protection Agency.
• Best Practice Environmental Management in Mining 1998 –
Landform Design for Rehabilitation – Environment Australia.
• Environmental Law in Australia (3rd Ed) 1992, GM Bates published
by Butterworths.
• Environmental Management in the Australian Minerals and Energy
Industries: Principles and Practices (1996). Ed David Mulligan.
UNSW Press in association with Australian Minerals & Energy
Environment Foundation.
Arid Zone Rehabilitation
• Landscape Ecology: Function and Management Principles 1997
– J. Ludwig et al. Published by CSIRO
• Arid Zone Field Environmental Handbook - available from Santos,
Adelaide.
• Dozer Manual - Environmental Guidelines for Line Clearing in the
Cooper Basin - available from Santos, Adelaide.
• Guideline for Environmental Management of Mining in Arid Areas -
available from Western Australian Department of Mines, Perth.
General Rehabilitation
• Proceedings of the Annual MCA (previously AMIC) Environmental
Workshop - indexed and available from the MCA.
• Mine Rehabilitation - A Handbook for the Coal Mining Industry -
available from NSW Coal Association.
• The Restoration of Land - by AD Bradshaw & MJ Chadwick,
published by Blackwell Scientific Publications.
• Land Restoration and Reclamation; Principles and Practice 1997-
JA Harris, P Birch & J Palmer, published by Longman Higher Education.
• Guidelines for the Rehabilitation of Quarries and Extractive Pits -
available from Tasmanian Department of Environment and
Planning, Hobart
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• Borrow Pits - Guidelines for Siting, Working and Rehabilitation -
available from Department of Environment and Planning, SA
• Rehabilitation of Mine Waste Disposal Sites - by Dr GL Unwin
published by Argus Printing Kempsey, NSW.
• Environmental Guidelines for Tracks and Roads - available from
Department of the Environment and Planning, Tasmania.
• Guidelines for Effective Rehabilitation of Borrow Pits in the Top End -
available from Department of Lands, Planning & Environment,
Northern Territory.
• Rehabilitation and Erosion Control Guidelines for Mineral Exploration
in the Top End - available from Department of Lands, Planning &
Environment, NT.
• Guidelines for Mineral Exploration in Coastal Areas of the Northern
Territory - available from Department of Lands, Planning &
Environment, NT.
Plant Selection, Planting and Sowing Techniques
• Growing Trees for Farms, Parks and Roadsides - A Revegetation
Manual for Australia - by Julianne Venning - published by Lothian
• Think Trees Grow Trees - available from AGPS and State Forestry
Departments.
• Revegetation of Disturbed Sites in Tasmania with Native Species:
A Practical Guide by T Duckett - available from Department of the
Environment and Planning, Hobart.
• Planting Guide - Wail Vicflora Nursery available from Department of
Conservation, Forests and Lands, Melbourne.
• How to Collect Native Tree Seed Easily - available from Australian
Tree Seed Centre, CSIRO, ACT.
• Reafforestation of Open Cut Coal Mines using Direct Seeding
Techniques by M Burns - available from NSW Coast Association.
• A Guide to Mangrove Transplanting - available from State Pollution
Control Commission, NSW.
• Establishment Techniques for Farm Trees - available from
Department of Agricultural and Fisheries (NSW), Soil Conservation
Service (NSW) and Forestry Commission (NSW).
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