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-This paper presents the development of a matrix that considers health and safety, environmental and land utility risks in the problem of prioritising asbestos mine sites for rehabilitation with limited information at desktop level from a population of such sites. Qualitative risk analysis techniques were developed along with expert input and applied to publicly available and/or remotely sensed information to calculate a relative risk rank and thus to aid the prioritisation of abandoned asbestos mine sites at desktop level for further investigation. The paper outlines the process followed and the results obtained and concludes that the application of risk analysis techniques can be a valuable tool to determine a relative priority of abandoned mine sites with limited information in order to rank them for further investigation.