The Reefton Mine Restoration Project has been rehabilitating the former Globe Process Mine just outside the Buller town of Reefton for several years. The project has involved extensive waste rock land-forming, installation of a passive water treatment system, spreading of topsoil, and planting of over 800,000 native seedlings with pest and predator control.
As part of the last stage of The Reefton Restoration Project infrastructure and plant removal, Oceana Gold engaged Boffa Miskell to prepare high-level conceptual studies and visualisations to illustrate how this site could be rehabilitated in an ecologically and recreationally positive manner while retaining relics and landform legacies of the site’s long industrial history.
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