Rehabilitation

We progressively rehabilitate mined land towards final land uses outlined in closure and rehabilitation plans that have been approved by relevant government authorities. We work to restore disturbed land and to improve rehabilitation and post-mining land use outcomes by planting vegetation, optimising water drainage and generating productive soil on rehabilitated land.

Bengalla Mine

At Bengalla, rehabilitation efforts are aimed at restoring the land to a combination of pastoral grassland and high-density woody vegetated land.

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New Acland Mine

At New Acland, our rehabilitation program returns land to both agricultural and conservation uses, contributing to the region’s agribusiness industry and re-establishing native species.

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West Moreton

New Hope Group operated multiple coal mines, collectively known as West Moreton, near the city of Ipswich in Queensland:

The Chuwar Mine operated throughout the 1980s, and in 2022 it was the first open-cut coal mine in QLD to be fully rehabilitated and relinquished to the QLD Government. Find out more.
Operations at the New Oakleigh Mine ended in 2013, after which we rehabilitated the site to a mainly grazing land use. In FY23 we sold the land, with all outstanding obligations under the mining leases and Environmental Authority transferred to the new owner.
Operations at the Jeebropilly Mine ended in 2019, and the majority of the site has been rehabilitated to the final land use of grazing.

Enhancing biodiversity at the Lagoon Creek Conservation Zone

Work has begun on New Acland Mine’s 13.5-kilometre Lagoon Creek Conservation Zone, which will see more than 3,000 trees planted over the next decade.

Queensland first - Chuwar Coal Mine fully rehabilitated and surrendered

Chuwar Coal Mine, located just 5km from Ipswich, has become the first open-cut coal mine in Queensland to be fully rehabilitated and relinquished, with the Queensland Government accepting surrender of New Hope Group’s Environmental Authority and Mining Leases for the site.

Koalas thrive amidst mining operation rehabilitation

Koala populations in the area of New Acland Mine have remained relatively stable over the past two decades, according to the results of an independent scientific study.