Sustainable Minerals Institute

Research

  • Anthony O'Sullivan

    Seafloor Polymetallic Nodules – A clean solution to the Battery Metal Supply Gap

    18 October 2019 9:00am–10:00am
     
    in JKMRC Friday Seminars 2019
    Every year, we extract 9 billion tonnes of metal ores and in the process, we create a 350billion tonne waste problem, destroy tropical habitats and carbon sinks, releasing toxic substances into the environment and emissions into the atmosphere. While metals do not have renewable substitutes, they can be recovered and recycled – that’s the good news. The bad news is, we currently do not have enough metal in the system to close the loop and we will need to inject a lot of virgin metal to provide for an additional 3 billion people this century.
  • Professor Longbin Huang recognised for outstanding red-mud rehabilitation collaboration with Rio Tinto

    Professor Longbin Huang recognised for outstanding red-mud rehabilitation collaboration with Rio Tinto

    Published on: 4 October 2019
    The Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation's Professor Longbin Huang, Rio Tinto and Queensland Alumina Limited have been recognised for collaborative research into technologies that could turn bauxite residue, or ‘red mud’, into soil capable of growing plants.
  • UQ partners with seven Australian universities to advance sustainable mineral processing

    UQ partners with seven Australian universities to advance sustainable mineral processing

    Published on: 4 October 2019
    The University of Queensland is one of seven universities tasked with championing sustainable minerals processing through a federally-backed $35 million Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence.
  • UQ study shows global supply of metals won’t meet demand without industry change

    UQ study shows global supply of metals won’t meet demand without industry change

    Published on: 4 October 2019
    University of Queensland researchers have highlighted the effects environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks will have on the global supply of metals without major innovations in the mining industry.
  • Dr Kurt Aasly

    Process mineralogy of non-metallic mineral deposits

    4 October 2019 9:00am–10:00am
     
    in JKMRC Friday Seminars 2019
    Process mineralogy is typically related to detailed examinations of metallic ores and the relationship between mineralogical properties and mineral processing. However, process mineralogical techniques are widely used within other mineral sectors as well, such as on industrial minerals, although the main objectives of such investigations can be different.
  • National consortium on mine closure passes first hurdle

    National consortium on mine closure passes first hurdle

    Published on: 25 September 2019
    A proposed Cooperative Research Centre for Transformations in Mining Economies (CRC-TiME) is one step closer as one of only six proposed Centres to progress to Stage Two in Round 21 of the Australian Government’s CRC Program.
    Hosted by The University of Queensland and the University of Western Australia, CRC-TiME brings together 50 leading mining companies, the Minerals Council of Australia, mining equipment, technology and services (METS) companies, regional development organisations, research partners, as well as local, State and Commonwealth governments.
  • Dr Marko Hilden

    Energy efficiency and size energy relationships - revisiting Hukki’s curve

    27 September 2019 9:00am–10:00am
     
    in JKMRC Friday Seminars 2019
    Trying to improve energy efficiency and modelling the energy of size reduction is one of the most important problems we face in comminution research. But regrettably, even the very definition of “energy efficiency” is elusive. The development of better grinding devices and circuits that use less of the world’s limited energy resources requires a clearer understanding of the relationship between energy and particle size.
  • Craig Vadeikis

    The changing face of the mineral sands industry - Rare Earths

    20 September 2019 9:00am–10:00am
     
    in JKMRC Friday Seminars 2019
    The Global Mineral Sands industry is predominantly focused on the production of titanium and zirconium bearing minerals such as ilmenite, rutile and zircon. However, in recent years there has been a shift in the attention of both explorers and producers to consider the minor rare earth bearing minerals of monazite and xenotime.
  • Mine closure - do we have what it takes?

    Mine closure - do we have what it takes?

    Mine closure is the topic of the moment. The recent Mine Closure 2019 in Perth was booked out for weeks beforehand. Why so and why now?
    Ten years ago, the book “101 things to do with a hole in the ground” was published to a niche market of closure and sustainability practitioners. It sold out, twice! Centres of Excellence in rehabilitation have existed for much longer, and for many years the major mining companies established specialist closure teams within their corporate structures. So why the fuss now when mine closure has always been an integral part of mine planning?
  • Meeting kick-starts Aus-PNG mining partnership

    Meeting kick-starts Aus-PNG mining partnership

    Published on: 9 September 2019
    An introduction to The University of Queensland’s (UQ) mining minds has kick-started a recently signed partnership with the PNG University of Technology (UNITECH).

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