With 2024 set to be the ‘year of the critical mineral’ the MIWATCH are busier than ever! With a shift in focus from sample collection to waste analysis and delivery of results, it’s time to welcome a new team member – Francesco Colombi!
The inaugural AusIMM Critical Minerals Conference was held in Perth on the 21-23 November 2023, hosting over 700 delegates. Loren Nicholls attended the Conference and gives us her experience of the event.
Earlier this year members of the MIWATCH team visited the Charters Towers region to sample mining tailings and waste rocks from Rishton and Chariah abandoned mines.
Dr Sibele Nascimento writes about her latest paper 'Geochemical, mineralogical, and geophysical methods to establish the geoenvironmental characteristics of the King River delta, Queenstown, Western Tasmania', published in the Applied Geochemistry journal.
In 2021, MIWATCH hosted Dipanshu Sharma as a visiting BSc honours student where she undertook geochemical analysis on Tasmanian tailings. After completing her honours she returns to MIWATCH for the next few months before heading into industry.
PhD candidate Loren Nicholls shares how XANES technology can be applied to understanding cobalt speciation and secondary mineralogy in historical copper tailings.