RESEARCH THEME

Environment
and water

Ecological Engineering of Mine Wastes: research group in the Centre for Environmental Responsibility in Mining

Environmental Geochemistry: research group in the Centre for Environmental Responsibility in Mining

Ecosystem Assessment, Restoration and Resilience: research group in the Centre for Environmental Responsibility in Mining

Water Management and Accounting: research program in the Centre for Environmental Responsibility in Mining

Regional Water and Land Resources: research program in the Centre for Environmental Responsibility in Mining

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Phytomining and Bioremediation: Plants that hyperaccumulate metals

Utilising hyperaccumulator plants, algae, and microbial biotechnology to extract valuable metals, detoxify contaminated soils, and restore degraded mining lands. This research advances techniques for nickel and cobalt phytomining, soil stabilisation, and water purification, promoting cost-effective, nature-based solutions for rehabilitating mine-impacted environments while supporting metal recovery.
Environmental Geochemistry

The Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry's Environmental Geochemistry develops innovative tools for understanding and predicting geochemical processes, which underpin sustainable management of waste rock dumps, mineral processing tailings and final voids.
World-leading research into understanding hyperaccumulator plants

Hyperaccumulator plants are plants that concentrate metals in their leaves and sap - and enabling phytomining. Phytomining is a new technology to recover metals, such as nickel, from mining waste or contaminated land by growing and harvesting these plants and extracting metal from their biomass.