MIWATCH Blog

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.

Princess Gan reflects on her first field campaign with the MIWATCH team and shares some technical knowledge from the sites she visited in Cloncurry.

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.

The MIWATCH Group are pleased to welcome new member Princess Gan to the team as a Senior Research Officer.

Lina Toben is an honours student at the University of Adelaide who is undertaking her thesis with the MIWATCH team

Read about MIWATCH’s recent trip to sample tailings and mine-affected waters in North Queensland.

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.