Geochemical assessment of an analogue site for an engineered landform at Ranger Uranium Mine, Northern Territory, Australia |
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| Authors: | S J Riley J F Rich |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Civic Engineering and Environment, University of Western Sydney Nepean, PO Box 10, Kingswood 2747, Australia Tel: +61 247 360 282 · Fax: +61 247 360 833 · e-mail: s.riley@nepean.uws.edn.an, AU;(2) School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch 6150 Australia, AU |
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| Abstract: | An essential element in identifying sites as analogues for the long-term development of soils and vegetation on engineered
landforms of the rehabilitated Ranger Uranium Mine, Northern Territory, Australia, is the need to match rocks. Comparison
of the geochemistry of rocks from the waste rock dump of Ranger Uranium Mine and the potential analogue site of Tin Camp Creek
area, Western Arnhem Land, indicates that there are several sites along Tin Camp Creek that may be used as analogue sites.
Detailed comparisons between the Ranger and Tin Camp Creek lithologies have been undertaken using a variety of techniques,
including cluster analysis. It is demonstrated that at least 70% of the rocks being mined at Ranger have analogues in the
Tin Camp Creek area.
Received: 2 October 1996 · Accepted: 4 November 1997 |
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| Keywords: | Uranium mining Kakadu Statistical analysis Analogue site Erosion modelling Waste rock |
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