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.
Recently published her first authored paper, PhD student Olivia Mejías shares the journey and challenges she had in writing this paper on the current state of knowledge regarding the cycling of indium.
MIWATCH group members Rosie Blannin, Loren Nicholls, and Olivia Mejías recount their time at the 17th Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) Biennial Meeting in Zürich, Switzerland.
Olivia Mejías travelled to Perth to visit the John de Laeter Research Centre at Curtin University to access the Atom Tomography Probe (ATP) and uncover the critical metal indium hidden in mine waste.