Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP160100598
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Eco-engineering soil from mine tailings for native plant rehabilitation. Eco-engineering soil from mine tailings for native plant rehabilitation. This project aims to develop integrated and low-cost eco-engineering technology to purposefully accelerate in-situ formation of soil from tailings for sustainable native plant community rehabilitation at metal mines. Soil shortages at mines cost the Australian mining industry billions of dollars in sustainable rehabilitation of tailings, and threaten the industry’s ecological and commercial sustainability. Building on recent findings of critical processes in soil formation from copper/lead–zinc tailings, this research will use key biogeochemical and rhizosphere processes in the tailing-soil to create a functional 'technosol'. This technology is intended to be used in Australian metal mines to offset the soil needed to rehabilitate tailings landforms with native plant communities.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 10-2016
End Date: 12-2020
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $590,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Environmental Engineering | Microbial Ecology | Inorganic Geochemistry | Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Management of Solid Waste from Mineral Resource Activities | Rehabilitation of Degraded Mining Environments |
