Partnership and collaboration

Despite the uncertainty that has permeated our lives this year, the mining industry in Chile and the region has maintained operational stability. For SMI-ICE-Chile, this has meant continuity and the growth of our project portfolio.

The University of Queensland’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM) is one of four partners on a new $10 million project to improve the governance of natural resources.

Queensland copper mine waste could deliver a key ingredient for the renewable energy revolution thanks to a three-year international study.

The Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management establishes an unprecedented global standard on tailings management applicable to existing and future tailings facilities.

Technology that could rehabilitate mine waste back to useful soil is entering full-scale trials at alumina refineries in Queensland.

JKTech has announced commercialisation funding for five geometallurgy and mineral processing research projects.
JKTech’s Managing Director and Director of The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute Professor Neville Plint said the projects have the potential to transform the mining industry.

Harvesting plants that can absorb metal from the ground may offer a sustainable solution for mining and rehabilitation according to research underway at the Sustainable Minerals Institute's Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation.

One year after announcing an integrated management structure for the Julius Kruttschnitt Minerals Research Centre (JKMRC) and JKTech, the ‘Production Centres’ collective of the Sustainable Minerals Institute is driving innovation in mining and mineral processing.

UQ researchers will collaborate with industry and university partners on a new three-year, $1.65million research project that aims to drive transformational change in the public disclosure requirements of mine tailings information.