Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0561811

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0561811

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Rehabilitation strategies for metalliferous mine wastes using native metallophytes from Pb-Zn-Ag gossans, northwest Queensland. The global area covered with mine waste is in the order of 100 million hectares containing several 100,000 million tonnes of mine wastes. The long-term sustainable rehabilitation of metal mine sites is inhibited by our lack of knowledge of metal resistance and uptake by Australian native plants. This project will evaluate metallophytes naturally growing on metal-rich soils, northwest Queensland, for their capabilities and revegetation potential when grown in mine wastes of the Cannington Ag-Pb-Zn mine. Outcomes will include practical, innovative methods of mine site rehabilitation that are low-cost and environmentally-friendly.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 03-2006

End Date: 12-2008

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $86,918.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geochemistry | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation | Inorganic Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Rehabilitation of degraded mining lands |

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