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.
Last week, MIWATCH welcomed Dr. Steve Jason Chingwaru a geometallurgist and postdoctoral researcher from Zimbabwe. Steve recently completed his PhD which centred on the geometallurgical characterization and deportment of gold in one of the largest historical tailings reservoirs of the Witwatersrand.
Spring seems to have sprung early in Brisbane and with it MIWATCH welcomes two new starters – Dr Eric O Ansah starting as a postdoctoral researcher and Master of Sciences Candidate Pamela Curi.
We all have expectations and prophecy about how things will go, but we can't always predict challenges. Sometimes, they come up because of decisions we made that have little or no interaction with what is waiting for us.
Earlier this year, the MIWATCH team made the move to North Wing, one of the oldest parts of the UQ Experimental Mine Site at Indooroopilly, Queensland.
Before the inaugural Australian Mine Waste Symposium in February 2024 (was it that long ago now!), I had the opportunity to meet with Professor Iain Stewart who inspired many high school students (particularly in the UK) to become geologists!
Enrique Sáez Salgado shares his insights from his recent industrial student placement at Teck Mining Company in Trail, Canada, focusing on the Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 project in Chile.
Just weeks back to Australia since Sijia Wang completed her undergraduate studies, she eagerly volunteered for her inaugural field mission alongside MIWATCH.
MIWATCH recently welcomed a team of research assistants who are already working across MIWATCH projects ranging from data analytics, lab work to field sampling.
