Research

Industrial Ecology & Circular Economy

Environmental Geochemistry

This group develops innovative tools for understanding and predicting geochemical processes, which underpin sustainable management of waste rock dumps, mineral processing tailings and final voids.

Total Deposit Knowledge

The aim of the Total Deposit Knowledge program is to maximise the impact of geological information and understanding on the mining value chain.

Ecosystem Assessment, Restoration & Resilience

This group assesses impacts of mining activities on flora and fauna; develop innovative approaches to restore ecosystem services and practices that encourage recolonisation by native species; examine the resilience of ecosystems under specific disturbance regimes; discover and understand the utility of metallophyte plants; create approaches for the recovery and sustainability of disturbed land.

Addressing health and safety issues for gemstone cutters

Published on: 1 February 2019

University of Queensland researchers have produced a range of educational resources aimed at tackling safety risks for workers in the gemstone industry.

Newcrest and UQ working for a sustainable mining future

UQ and Newcrest working for a sustainable mining future

Published on: 25 January 2019

The University of Queensland and Newcrest Mining Ltd have agreed a new research initiative which provides funding for eight new PhD research projects to develop interconnected and systems-based solutions for a sustainable mining future.

Understanding of social complexity relating to the social impacts of mining

Projects to address improvements to understanding of social complexity by better integration and analysis of the spatial and temporal layers of physical, social, cadastral and demographic data relating to the social impacts of mining.

‘From Mine to Car’ Workshop on Sustainability Standards for Minerals and Metals Supply Chains

Published on: 10 December 2018

New Book co-edited by SMI affiliates Professor Saleem H. Ali and Dr. Tim Grice just published

New book on technological impacts on extractive industries

Published on: 13 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.

Extracting Good Practices

Published on: 25 June 2018

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.