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The annual photography competition is run internally during Sustainability Week and focuses on sustainability in the resource sector

Chilean student Ariel Salazar, is researching his thesis at UQ, thanks to an international travel scholarship

The Sustainable Minerals Institute, together with UQX, are pleased to announce the launch of The Future of Mining? MOOC to begin on September 4, 2018.

The BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) that will pave the way for greater collaboration between the two organisations.

Over 110 registered to attend the SMI Alumni and Community Event on Thursday 12 July 2018

Extracting Innovations: Mining, Energy and Technological Change in the Digital Age is co-edited by SMI affiliates Professor Saleem H. Ali and Dr. Tim Grice just published by Taylor and Francis – CRC Press, considers the most contemporary innovations propelling the extractive industries forward while also creating new environmental and social challenges.

Throughout her time in academia, Dee was passionate about the development of students and believed in giving them an opportunity to travel and learn.
As a tribute to Dee and to sustain her wonderful vision, we have established an equivalent fund at UQ – The Dee Bradshaw Travel Scholarship.

The Sustainable Minerals Institute’s Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (SMI-JKMRC) Friday Seminars are an institution to SMI-JKMRC staff, students, friends, alumni and minerals industry guests.

SMI contributes to the development of “Guidelines for the integrated use of hydrological, geochemical, and isotopic tools in mining operations”

A Colombian Centre of Excellence in Extractives - feasibility study underway following COALAR project

The Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation and the Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry, also known collectively as the Environment Centres recently launched it EnvironMENTORS mentoring program as part of pilot program being led by UQ’s Graduate School.

The purpose of the Guide is to enable governments and other stakeholders to better manage the environmental and human rights impacts of mining, in a way that promotes just and sustainable outcomes for local communities and inclusive governance of the mining sector.

This year’s SMI Networking Night was held on Thursday 14 June 2018. More than 30 UQ students attended from all SMI Centres, the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, and the School of Civil Engineering.