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In celebration of this year's International Women's Day on March 8, the Sustainable Minerals Institute's social media became a platform for promoting some of the brilliant female researchers working across the Institute's Centres. 

Sharing the environmental and social challenges facing an increasingly metal-hungry society will be a major aim for The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute’s (SMI) Associate Professor Anita Parbhakar-Fox as she steps into her new role as a Superstar of STEM.

A team from the Sustainable Minerals Institute’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining has launched a new teaching and learning resource promoting awareness and understanding of the rapidly changing low-carbon energy transition dynamics across the Arctic.

The Sustainable Minerals Institute International Centre of Excellence in Chile (SMI-ICE-Chile) has partnered with the world’s largest copper mining company, CODELCO, to help them achieve six United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

Dr Ben Seligmann is a Research Fellow at SMI's Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre specialising in risk management and hazard identification methods - we sat down with Ben to discuss a new project he has been working on.

Fatigue management in Queensland’s mining industry has improved considerably in recent years but more needs to be done to understand the relationship with mental health according to a new report by The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI).

Next generation drone technology will be put to the test in Australia’s mining industry as University of Queensland (UQ) researchers aim to make hyperspectral imaging more accessible than ever before.

New research suggests that increased demand for energy transition metals (ETMs) could be more disruptive to some communities than winding back production of thermal coal.

When researcher Dr Sarah Holcombe was undertaking her PhD field research in the late 1990s, she didn’t realise how important the recordings she made of story and song would become for the next generation.

Professor Mark Noppé is the newly appointed director of the WH Bryan Mining Geology Research Centre (BRC).