Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0219428

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0219428

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Polymetallic phytoextraction applied to mine waste. Phytoextraction involves the use of hyperaccumulator plants to grow and concentrate a metal. Subsequently, the crop is harvested and the metal extracted. The aim of this research is to investigate the uptake and chemically induced uptake of heavy metals (Ni, Co, Au, Ag, Cu, Pb, Zn, Pt, Pd, Cr) by plants grown on mine tailings and mine waste materials. Outcomes will include practical methods of metal extraction that are cheap to employ where metal concentrations are subeconomic and of potential environmental impact during mining and after mine closure.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2002

End Date: 12-2004

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $67,635.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geochemistry | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation | Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Plant Physiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Concentrating processes of other base metal ores | Rehabilitation of degraded mining lands |

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