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.
Carolina Carvajal is a PhD candidate, investigating the fundamentals of mineral breakage at the grain boundaries by applying unconventional techniques such as nano/micro indentation.
PhD candidate Loren Nicholls shares how XANES technology can be applied to understanding cobalt speciation and secondary mineralogy in historical copper tailings.
