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Alban and Barbara Lynch Award

Strengthening ASEAN Cooperation in Minerals

This project is taking a two-part approach to facilitating trade and investment in minerals and deepening their contribution to ASEAN economic integration: a review of current minerals sector cooperation within ASEAN, and the scoping of an enhanced ASEAN minerals database information system to support minerals cooperation.

UQ: Stone for Development Work Integrated Learning

New UQ startup harnesses satellite imaging to monitor mine rehabilitation

Published on: 19 January 2021

A startup founded by two Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) research students could make monitoring the progress of mine site rehabilitation easier and cheaper.

Researchers call for cautious progress in deep sea mining

Published on: 4 January 2021

University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have urged for regulatory caution in a new paper which emphasises just how little is known about the potential impacts of deep sea mining (DSM).

UQ and Curtin collaborate with industry on new online mining course

Published on: 26 November 2020

The University of Queensland (UQ) and Curtin University have developed a new Professional Certificate Program that will increase understanding of the modern mining industry in Australia and open pathways to postgraduate study for people currently working within the industry.

The bonds between person and place have a role to play in energy transition planning

Published on: 17 November 2020

Understanding the positive and negative attachments of people who live in coal mining communities could be key to implementing inclusive regional energy transitions, according to research by The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI).

Urban mining, waste-pickers and the social aspects of the circular economy – a conversation with Jandira Morais

Published on: 16 October 2020

At the Sustainable Minerals Institute we strongly believe that powerful, transdisciplinary research – bridging the gap between silos – is a fundamental part of addressing the minerals industry’s sustainable challenges. Jandira Morais, a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation (CMLR), has carried that transdisciplinary ethos with her throughout her studies.

Emerging mining hotspots will increase pressure on communities and the environment

Published on: 25 September 2020

Growing demand for metals necessary for the transition to a low carbon future could create high-risk mining ‘hotspots’ that will put pressure on communities and environments.

Geology, industry experience and the Global Change Scholars Program – a conversation with Rocío Vargas Soto

Published on: 28 September 2020

Technical expertise and academic rigour will be key to developing sustainable solutions to the minerals industry’s challenges and at the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) we have found both those things in PhD Student Rocío Vargas Soto.