Rehabilitating legacy mining into public assets
Monash University researchers have built a database of more than 80,000 inactive and unused Australian mine sites in a project that highlights their positive potential.
With some ingenuity and investment, these sites could go from being liabilities to assets, said Associate Professor of Resources Engineering Mohan Yellishetty.
Professor Yellishetty and his international research team created an Australian-first geospatial database of all known active and inactive hard rock mine sites across the country.Their database included 3536 Queensland mines and quarries, including 711 active sites, 104 under care and maintenance, 394 designated as heritage sites, and 2820 mines and. . .
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