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Find out how mine sites are rehabilitated after mining has finished. This short video, filmed at the Gregory open-cut mine in Central Queensland, describes the steps involved in rehabilitating a site where open-cut mining has taken place. It shows how the overburden from spoil piles is contoured by bulldozers, covered in the topsoil reserved at the beginning of mining, and seeded so that grasses and trees will regenerate.
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Science: ACSSU075; ACSSU094; ACSHE062; ACSHE121