Mine rehabilitation: an ecological rehabilitation case study at Mount Owen Mine, Hunter Valley, NSW

A Glencore case study in mining environmental management: mining rehabilitation work at old coal mine sites in our Hunter Valley mine in New South Wales, Australia.

Our innovative mine rehabilitation programme at Mount Owen mine aims for best practice environmental management in mining. We believe that our successes at this site makes us a leader in mine rehabilitation in New South Wales, if not further afield. Many site rehabilitation techniques developed through our research programme are now being circulated throughout the coal mining industry.

We have already established reforestation cover over rehabilitated areas, in a process that first began in 1998; we are currently working on creating habitats to encourage the return of local fauna, including endangered species such as the spotted tail quoll.

In March 2015 the Mt Owen mine site was visited by delegates from 12 developing nations, from the International Mining For Development Centre (IM4DC). This was a partnership between the Australian federal government and the Universities of Western Australia and Queensland, intended to deliver best practice in rehabilitation of land to developing nations. They were accompanied by Professor David Mulligan from the University of Queensland.

For more information about our rehabilitation of mines and activities at this site, visit http://mtowencomplex.com.au/EN/biodiv...