White's Overburden Dump (Heap) Before Rehabilitation, June 1983 (1).
White's Overburden Dump (Heap) Before Rehabilitation, 1974. The 1972 and 1973 attempts at revegetation are clearly shown to have failed.(4).
White's Overburden Dump (Heap) After Rehabilitation, May 1985 (1).
Shows reshaping, drainage (top, berm and toe) and vegetation works.
White's Dump, view to the northeast - good quality pasture ? May 1988 (2).
Colonisation by Acacia holosericea.
Drain B on White's Heap, looking downstream. Gabion weir constructed in 1987 (2).
Damaged section of rip-rap downstream of gabion weir, May 1988 (2).
Small area of Dieback on White's Heap, 1997 (3).
Many thanks to Maria Kraatz, Dept. of Lands, Planning Environment, NT for supplying monitoring reports on Rum Jungle.
Page last updated - September 8, 1999.
1 - C G Allen & T J Verhoeven, 1986, The Rum Jungle Rehabilitation Project - Final Project Report. Northern Territory Department of Mines and Energy, Darwin, June 1986.
2 - M Kraatz & R J Applegate (Ed's), 1992, Rum Jungle Rehabilitation Project Monitoring Report, 1986-1988. Technical Memorandum No. 51, Land Conservation Unit, Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT.
3 - N W Menzies & D R Mulligan, 1997, Vegetation Dieback on Dyson's Open Cut - Implications, Causal Mechanisms and Options for Remediation. Report to Rum Jungle Rehabilitation Project, Land Resources Division, Northern Territory, Dept. of Lands, Planning Environment, September 1997. Report by Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, University of Queensland.
4 - R Jeffree & N J Williams, 1975, Biological Indications of Pollution of the Finniss River System - Especially Fish Diversity and Abundance. In "Rum Jungle Environmental Studies", AAEC/E365, Chapter 7.
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