Sustainable Minerals Institute

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  • UQ Minerals Week brings international academics to Brisbane

    UQ Minerals Week brings international academics to Brisbane

    Published on: 13 August 2019
    Researchers from around the world met in Brisbane to discuss sustainable solutions for the mining industry’s biggest challenges as part of UQ Minerals Week.
    Academic leaders from The University of Capetown (UCT), The University of British Columbia (UBC) and The University of Exeter’s Camborne School of Mines joined colleagues from the Sustainable Minerals Institute at UQ’s St Lucia campus.
  • UQ collaborates on global effort to reduce the risks of tailings

    UQ collaborates on global effort to reduce the risks of tailings

    Published on: 12 August 2019
    The collapse of the tailings dam at the Corrego de Feijão iron ore mine near Brumadinho in Brazil in January 2019 highlighted again the very serious risks associated with managing mining waste.
  • Steven Micklethwaite

    Drones, AI and the cloud - the new possible

    16 August 2019 9:00am–10:00am
     
    in JKMRC Friday Seminars 2019
    This presentation focuses on research developments at Monash University where drones have been combined with high performance compute and computer vision techniques, in order to remotely sense or sample our planet.

  • New mining resettlement dataset sets the standard

    Published on: 12 August 2019
    University of Queensland researchers have published the first ever global dataset of mining induced displacement and resettlement, giving mining companies an evidence base to develop best practice.

  • The Language of Safety

    9 August 2019 9:00am–10:00am
     
    in JKMRC Friday Seminars 2019
    When considering safety, especially in operating mines, the reporting of incidents and the language used to describe them really matters. Natural Language Processing can now be used to classify and detect new classifications of incidents and detect previously unseen combinations of hazards and behaviours, allowing for the development of meaningful and targeted safety intervention programs.
  • Energy Curve Enhancement Blog 9 - Incorporating mineral liberation into the Energy Curves

    Energy Curve Enhancement Blog 9 - Incorporating mineral liberation into the Energy Curves

    The minerals industry invests a great deal of energy in comminution, both in terms of capital costs and operating costs. A number of people have published estimates of how much of the energy is consumed in comminution, including Ballantyne and his co-workers (2012) who estimated that in 2008-2009 1.3% of Australia’s energy was consumed in comminution circuits in gold and copper operations
  • Emeritus Professor Ken Collerson

    Cobalt and HREE Minerals Systems in the Eastern Mount Isa Block

    26 July 2019 9:00am–10:00am
     
    in JKMRC Friday Seminars 2019
    A study of Co-rich samples from the Eastern Mount Isa Block was undertaken to constrain the IOCG mineral system and evaluate HREE prospectivity. Although these deposits are interpreted to have had a granitic source, the element association includes metals not normally concentrated in silicic melts e.g., Co, Ni, Sc and PGE's.

  • Mining and Social Performance: A Review

  • Pete Forakis

    Project Derisking through metallurgical testing

    14 June 2019 9:00am–10:00am
     
    in JKMRC Friday Seminars 2019
    Metallurgical testing is critical to a minerals project development. There are some key questions that need to be answered at each stage of a project from Scoping, to Prefeasibility and to Detailed feasibility and a key component is the process parameters evaluated during metallurgical testing.
  • Assoc Prof Glen Corder discusses the circular economy and mining on ABC Radio

    Assoc Prof Glen Corder discusses the circular economy and mining on ABC Radio

    Published on: 10 June 2019
    As part of media coverage of World Environment Day (6 June), Assoc Professor Glen Corder joined Katherine Feeney in the ABC studios to discuss mining and a circular econmony

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