ABSTRACT
Cattle grazing is considered suitable as an end land use after mining in the Northern Territory for various reasons. First, the mined lands were typically grazed by cattle prior to mining. Second, most of the mining areas are located adjacent to pastoral sites thus it could be a challenge to prevent cattle grazing the mine rehabilitation after closure of the mine. Third, the pastoral industry is still one of the principal industries in this region. For the revegetated mine rehabilitation areas to supported grazing would be reasonable. In other regions of tropical Australia such as Queensland, the government and community require the local mining industry to rehabilitate mined lands such that grazing is supported as a post-mining land use (Grigg et al., 2000).
