Dyson's Open Cut Before Rehabilitation, May 1984 (1).
Dyson's Open Cut After Rehabilitation, May 1986 (1).
The pit was drained, infilled with material from the tailings dam
and copper heap leach areas, capped, shaped and revegetated.
Subsidence and backfill in mattressed drain on Dyson's Open Cut. Created by settlement of fill. May 1988 (2).
Precipitated Salts and leachate, Dyson's Open Cut. May 1988 (2).
Acid mine drainage at the exit point of the drainage from Dyson's Open Cut, 1997 (3).
An area of expanding dieback along the northern edge of Dyson's Open Cut, 1997 (3).
The interface between bare and vegetated areas, Dyson's Open Cut, 1997 (3).
Salt efflorescence at the surface of a dieback area, Dyson's Open Cut, 1997 (3).
Surface fines collecting on the upslope of the recently added contour banks, Dyson's Open Cut, 1997 (3).
Many thanks to Maria Kraatz, Dept. of Lands, Planning Environment, NT for supplying monitoring reports on Rum Jungle.
Page last updated - May 2, 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.
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