RESEARCH THEME

Environment
and water

Ecological Engineering of Mine Wastes: research group in the Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation

Environmental Geochemistry: research group in the Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation

Ecosystem Assessment, Restoration and Resilience: research group in the Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation

Water Management and Accounting: research program in the Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry

Regional Water and Land Resources: research program in the Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry

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Resourcing the future

Published on: 1 March 2019

UQ researchers are helping ensure sustainable access to vital resources now and in the future.
An Ore-some forest

Published on: 2 February 2017

Metal crops or hyperaccumulator plants are unusual plants that have the capacity to accumulate high concentrations of certain elements...
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.
CWiMI research

The Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry (CWiMI) support the sustainable management of water in the minerals and energy industries sector.
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.
Leaders of the energy transition are calling for a sustainable source of critical metals – is phytomining the answer?

From the humid rainforests of Malaysia and the dry bushlands of Australia to the labs of leading universities, researchers are closing in on a new method of ‘mining’ that could change how we think about metals – phytomining.