Mining waste could be a key source of indium for Australia’s future home-grown solar panel manufacturing industry, now a new study led by The University of Queensland has investigated indium host minerals at various scales – from centimetres to the nanoscale – helping to find economic ways to extract it and better understand its environmental impact.
Flinders University will lead the newly funded ARC Training Centre for Advancing Archaeology in the Resources Sector, recently awarded $5 million through the Australian Research Council (ARC)’s Industrial Transformation Research Program.
Researchers from The University of Queensland have found that as much as 80% of the Pacific region’s sand and aggregate (used to build houses, roads, bridges, and to protect coastlines from the impacts of climate change) come from Fiji – at great cost for some of Fiji’s rivers.
Researchers from The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) have received over $1 million in Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Linkage funding to establish the long-term sustainability of the rehabilitation of ecosystems using technosol – a soil-like substance made from process waste.
