This wiki was developed by a research team in the Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation in collaboration with the Central Queensland Mine Rehabilitation Group (CQMRG). The project was initially funded by the Australian Coal Association Research Program. Read about the development of this wiki on the About the MRC Wiki project page.

MRC-wiki is now owned and managed by CQMRG. Contact CQMRG via email, or email the MRC-wiki Editor directly.

Copyright in the MRC-wiki articles is held by CQMRG under a creative commons 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

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All information in this wiki is provided in good faith. It does not constitute professional advice. Some of the information contained in this wiki is site- or time-specific and outcomes may vary if the knowledge or techniques are applied in the future to different sites. Likewise, some information may be outdated or inaccurate, although a reasonable attempt is made to avoid this.

Individuals may express opinions on rehabilitation and closure issues in articles if they are clearly articulated as being so. In this way, a body of knowledge may be built up from direct evidence, evaluation of past experiences, and expert judgement. This requires that writers be conscious of the difference between evidence-based findings and opinion, and readers to be discerning of content. However, it is important for the reader to seek evidence for opinions expressed.

The MRC wiki team and CQMRG accept no liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of information contained in MRC wiki.

MRC-wiki is open to anyone with expertise, experience or knowledge of mine rehabilitation and closure issues, particularly in Central Queensland.

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You do not need to be a member of the Central Queensland Mine Rehabilitation Group (CQMRG) to contribute to or use this wiki, but you’re invited to visit the CQMRG website for information about the group and to join CQMRG.

Note: All contributions to the Mine Rehabilitation and Closure Wiki Knowledge Management Platform must comply with the following copyright requirements:

1.      Contributors must be either the copyright owner of the work or authorised to contribute the work (i.e. by the copyright owner);

2.      The contribution of papers which have been previously published, or are substantially based upon some published output, must not breach any copyright agreement with the prior publisher;

3.      Working papers that have been authored at the request of an employer are generally copyright of the employer and their permission should be sought before contributing;

4.      Care must be taken to ensure contributors do not breach confidentiality – i.e. permission should be sought where a work may include confidential information (e.g. non-public information obtained within the course of previous or current employment); and

5.      All contributions will be made openly available for dissemination on the Wiki Mine Rehabilitation Closure Knowledge Management Platform to under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivative licence.

6.      Contributions may be edited by the MRC wiki team or CQMRG.

You can upload a report if you have permission (including copyright permission) to do so.

You can contribute articles anonymously. To do this, submit your article to the MRC wiki review panel with a request to not be attributed as the author. However, you must identify yourself to the review panel as a CQMRG member, industry practitioner or bona fide stakeholder.

No, you are contributing your knowledge so that current and future generations will benefit from what you have learned and shared. This project will make you immortal. :-) By sharing our knowledge we can apply good rehabilitation and closure planning, implementation and review processes.

The scope of the wiki content is as broad as the subject matter and content that contributors are willing to add, within the topic of mine closure and rehabilitation. However, there is a focus on mine closure and rehabilitation issues in Bowen Basin / Central Queensland coal mines.

Here is a list of suggested topics to write about.

Please refer to the AusIMM Guide to Authors 2016.

AusIMM has generously agreed for us to apply this Guide to MRC-wiki. However, some of the instructions to authors do NOT apply to MRC-wiki. Specifically:

• do not send MRC-wiki articles to AusIMM email addresses or portals. Enter articles directly into MRC-wiki or email them to the MRC-wiki team
• there is no requirement to sign a copyright agreement with AusIMM to contribute to MRC-wiki
• default MRC-wiki fonts and layouts are fine to use
• a greater ratio of figures to words may be appropriate
• images should be png, jpg or gif

Before citing this wiki, keep in mind that the content may not have been independently verified.

Articles may have been written and edited by multiple authors, not all of whom are identifiable on the wiki page. The MRC-wiki contributor who created or last edited the article is not necessarily the article author.

MRC-wiki (as a whole) can be cited as:

     Mine Rehabilitation and Closure Wiki, n.d., Central Queensland Mine Rehabilitation Group, Viewed 1 January 2017, <www.mrcwiki.org.au>.

However, it is recommended that each article be cited separately, for example:

     Impact of soil macrofauna on soil water flow, 2016, Mine Rehabilitation and Closure Wiki, Central Queensland Mine Rehabilitation Group. Viewed 1 January 2017, <http://mrcwiki.org.au:8080/bin/view/Main/Impact+of+soil+macrofauna+on+soil+water+flow/>.

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