Since 2017, rainfall deficiencies have affected most of the New South Wales, Queensland and South Australian parts of the Murray-Darling Basin. These longer-term deficiencies extend to parts of the New South Wales coast, particularly in the Hunter and Illawarra districts, and to much of the eastern half of South Australia from Adelaide northwards.

Today, and with the overwhelming support of its new committee, CQMRG donated $1,000 each to Drought Angels and Rural Aid.

Learn how erosion has been controlled at the Caloundra Road to Sunshine Coast Motorway (CR2SM), including an erosion sediment plan and re-vegetation methodologies.  Registrations due Friday 29 March -follow this link!

Two postgraduate scholarships are on offer in 2019 for innovative research into ways to improve land rehabilitation measures for Queensland coal mines.

Download the flyer here!

The Southern Queensland Land Rehabilitation Group (SQLRG) is holding its Spring workshop on 24 and 25 October at Kingaroy and will be focusing on water management innovations at Meandu Mine.

A full program can be found here.

The MCA annual environment and communities event has been running in different forms for more than thirty years. It centres on sharing of leading practice, problem solving and understanding trends that may affect the industry.  It is attended by industry practitioners, managers and others with a connection to mining.

Further information can be found here

The Australian Centre for Geomechanics (ACG) is hosting the 13^th International Conference on Mine Closure in Perth in September 2019. For information, please see http://mineclosure2019.com/

Abstracts are due 21 January 2019.

Function room at Headricks Lane, 189 East Street Rockhampton

Draft Agenda

Thursday 31^st May

4-6 PM Presentations 

6-8PM Canapes, Drinks and Networking

 

Friday 1^st June

8:30-9:30 Presentations 

9:30 – 10:30 Report Card 2016-17

10:30 - 11 Morning Tea and Media Opportunity for Report Card Release

11-12:30 Presentations 

12:30 Close and Lunch

Expressions of interest for 15-30 minute presentations relevant to the water theme or update on ACARP projects.

SQLRG's Winter Workshop will be held on 24 May 2018 at  The Gem hotel, Yatala.

Please refer to the attached flyer for more information and registration details, or email contact@sqlrg.org .

SQLRG Winter 2018 Workshop Flyer.pdf

https://www.ausimm.com.au/publications/publication.aspx?ID=17564

From Start to Finish: A Life-of-Mine Perspective brings together the full life-cycle of responsible mining in one handy volume focusing on socioeconomic and environmental leading practice.  Selected presenters from the AusIMM’s 2016 Life-of-Mine Conference have developed their abstracts into full papers for this publication. Key papers have also been drawn from previous Life-of-Mine conferences and other selected events, with the authors invited to update their papers to exemplify the best Start to Finish thinking and achievement in 21st century mining.

Forum: Planning for post-mining land use in central Queensland

9am – 1.30pm: 12th December, Western Gateway (CQ Room), Emerald

This event has been postponed to a future date to be advised.

Hosted by ACARP, CQU and UQ

The aim of this Forum is to identify the land uses that the central Queensland community would like to see for post-mining lands, relevant issues to address, the process for converting land from mining back to other uses, and how local stakeholders may be engaged in the process. It will provide an opportunity for different stakeholders in end-of- mine planning to discuss the goals and processes to convert post-mining lands back to agriculture and other uses.

The results of two current ACARP projects will be provided in the forum, together with other industry and policy information. There will be ample time for open discussion, and morning tea and lunch will be provided.

Session Description – Orientation to the exercise

From 8.30 am Coffee

9am - 9.20 am Welcome and introductions.

9.20 – 10.00 Updates on policy settings and issues from government and landholders

10.00 – 10.30 Identifying what stakeholders want for post-mining land use (Jo-Anne Everingham and John Rolfe - ACARP project)

10.30 – 11.00am Morning tea

11.00 – 11.20 Dealing with risk issues (Leanne Bowie and Jonathon Fulcher – ACARP project)

11.20 – 11.40 Developing appropriate engagement processes (models and decision framework from this project) (John Rolfe, Jo-Anne Everingham ACARP Project)

12.00 – 1.00pm Forum of key ‘experts’ in discussion and question session

 2 Industry members

 2 Landholders

 2 Government

 2 researchers

Updates from key experts followed by questions from the floor and open discussion

1.00 pm – 1.30pm Lunch and close

There is no charge for attendance, but bookings are essential for catering purposes.

Contact us to book or enquire:

Dr Delwar Akbar: (07) 4923 2316 d.akbar@cqu.edu.au

Professor John Rolfe: 0427 130 811 j.rolfe@cqu.edu.au