Sarsfield expansion project - Soils, land & rehabilitation
- Client Name
- Carpentaria Gold
- Location
- Ravenswood, North Queensland, Australia
Challenge
Carpentaria Gold Pty Ltd (CG) plans to expand its existing open cut mine located at Ravenswood in north Queensland.
A rehabilitation and decommissioning strategy was required which saw our team assist on the following:
- Soil and Land Resource Assessment
- Conducted a Baseline Soil Survey, including a review of existing published information on geology, land systems and previous soil surveys covering the neighbouring area.
- Prepared a Land Resource Assessment Impact on soil resources including topsoil and subsoil balance, potential erosion rates and risk ratings for various disturbance levels and PAF impacts.
- Impact assessment of land capability based on post mining landforms, available materials for rehabilitation and rehabilitation techniques.
Our team prepared a technical report for the proposed Rehabilitation and Decommissioning of the site.
The report included the following:
- Legislative context for rehabilitation;
- Existing environment;
- Rehabilitation risk assessment;
- Final land use goals;
- Revegetation species selection;
- Rehabilitation methods, opportunities and constraints;
- Conceptual closure objectives and indicators;
- Preliminary completion criteria.
