Earlier this year, Lexi K'ng completed a 6-week work placement at the MMG Rosebery Mine in Tasmania and is very thankful to Anita Parbhakar-Fox and Rick Valenta, Sustainable Minerals Institute and MMG Rosebery for giving her this opportunity supported by the Trailblazer program.
If you want to guard against physical danger on a mine site, you can install a barrier or build separated roads... but how do you protect yourself from burn-out or mental illness? MISHC Research Fellow (Education and Training) Libby Humphries explains more in this blog post.
Copper is a powerhouse metal of the energy transition but getting it out of the ground from tough minerals like chalcopyrite is no easy feat. MIWATCH Post-Doc Eric O Ansah explains new research.
Many of us at MIWATCH started out in Environmental Geochemistry to tackle the challenge of acid and metalliferous drainage (or AMD). Motivated by that, we are excited to welcome new postdoc, Dr Elin Jennings.
Research Assistant Rose Ridgeway reflects on her first trip with MIWATCH to the abandoned fancy yellow diamond mine in Ellendale, based about an hour and a half’s drive from Derby in Western Australia.
