These items are made by mining and processing minerals into metals and other materials.This fact sheet looks at the underground mining process and the technology used to extract these minerals from the earth. The affects of mining on the environment and methods used to rehabilitate underground mines after mining are also included.

This is a fact sheet that provides information about open-cut mining and how the environmental impacts are managed.

Find out how miners plan for and carry out revegetation of sand mining sites. This is a PowerPoint presentation that shows the pre-mine surveys, planning, plant propagation, dune re-profiling and maintenance work carried out by Consolidated Rutile Limited (CRL) in rehabilitating land on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, after it has been mined for mineral sands. Most slides include images.

Experiment with mining using a piece of fruitcake. This is an activity sheet providing instructions for a simulated mining experiment. Students use various tools to remove different fruits, representing different minerals, from a piece of fruit cake, which represents the mine site. They are then required to rehabilitate the 'mine site'. The sheet includes questions to test student understanding and a teacher guide.

The Science of Mining gives secondary science teachers ideas to promote student leaning in earth science and other science concepts in the context of mining activities in Queensland.The material is organised around outcomes focusing on a key question asked by students about rocks, minerals and mining.This resource will help you explore everything from plate tectonics, demonstrate different exploration and drilling techniques, role play environmental management scenarios and explore the chemistry behind a blast furnace or electrolysis.

Looks at Environmental Management Plans, Impact Statements, plans of operations and financial assurance for mining activities in Queensland.

Looks at legislation and regulators, environmental authority, progressive rehabilitation and the role of Government in mining activities in Queensland.

Ensham mine is an open cut coal mine located in Central Queensland near Emerald.In this activity you assume the role of an environmental scientist and identify any critically endangered, endangered and vulnerable flora and fauna present at the Ensham mine site.

Find out how the landscape is repaired after open cut mining. This is a PowerPoint presentation showing rehabilitation work carried out at the Ensham open cut coal mine in Central Queensland. The slides are predominantly pictorial and illustrate the processes of planning, removal and stockpiling of overburden, mining, surface reshaping, return of topsoil, planting and monitoring.

Rehabilitation is the process of returning a mine site to an agreed and sustainable land use after mining. Mining companies under their social license to operate and legislative obligations need to follow many processes to rehabilitate land successfully.This unit, based on a case study of Ensham open cut coal mine in Central Queensland, leads students through a range of learning experiences that provide an insight into the decision making processes required to achieve this. The unit culminates in an activity in which students prepare a fully costed rehabilitation proposal for a mine site.A series of PowerPoints which support the unit, uses diagrams, maps and high quality images to demonstrate, progressive rehabilitation in the context of topsoil removal, spoil pile construction and revegetation, species selection and tree planting.