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Soils, Tailings and Landforms |
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The Soils, Tailings and Landform team at Outback Ecology has considerable experience in soil and waste characterisation for mining approval, soil profile reconstruction and rehabilitation planning. The team can provide advice on the design, construction, rehabilitation and monitoring of soil covers for tailings and hostile wastes.
The Soils Group within Outback Ecology offers the following services:
Soil and Waste Characterisation for Rehabilitation Planning
- Pre-mining soil assessments for project approvals.
- Soil and rehabilitation management plans.
- Optimising constructed soil profiles for rehabilitation.
- Tailings properties in relation to plant growth and metal uptake.
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Soil Covers for Tailings and Waste Landforms
- Defining physical and water-holding properties of cover materials.
- Field and lab investigations of performance of mine wastes and cover profiles.
- Design of landforms and covers for optimum rehabilitation performance.
- Monitoring soil water and vegetation on established covers.
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Landform Solutions JV-Optimising Landform Construction
- Joint venture of Outback Ecology and DumpSolver ensuring best economic and environmental outcomes.
- Least-cost design and scheduling of waste landforms.
- Planning of material placement to ensure both containment of hostile wastes and appropriate outer profile for rehabilitation.
- On-going assistance and audit throughout construction to ensure design outcomes.
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Landform Stability and Erosion Monitoring
- Assessing material properties in relation to erosion potential.
- Measuring soil erodibility using rainfall simulation, on or off-site, in collaboration with UWA Centre for Land Rehabilitation.
- Field monitoring and evaluation of erosion treatments.
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Visual Impact Assessment
- Visual amenity assessments of post mine landforms and infrastructure for mining approval.
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