CSRM News

Exploring how economic opportunities from major developments in the Beetaloo region of the Northern Territory can support the aspirations, values and priorities of Aboriginal communities

As worldwide demand for minerals surges, mining companies have been doubling down on investment into brownfield development, expanding or intensifying extraction at existing mine sites.

The Dhupuma Plateau in Northern Australia – a sprawling escarpment of red dirt and stringybark trees – is steeped in history. It’s where legendary Yolngu ancestor Ganbulapula looked up into the treetops, in search of native honeybees. It’s where Europeans built a space tracking station, where many prime ministers have visited, and where the Garma Festival is held. And it’s where the world’s first Indigenous bauxite mining company was born.

Dr. Nigel Wight, a researcher at SMI-ICE-Chile, along with a team from the Sustainable Minerals Institute at The University of Queensland, have just published a major scientific study titled "What Remains: Disaster Risk and Emergency Preparedness in a Chilean Mining Town", in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

Flinders University will lead the newly funded ARC Training Centre for Advancing Archaeology in the Resources Sector, recently awarded $5 million through the Australian Research Council (ARC)’s Industrial Transformation Research Program.