A Consortium of Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) researchers and mining industry partners has been recognised as a model for collaborative, applied research at the UQ Research and Translation Awards.
Despite more than 60 per cent of Australian mines located near Indigenous communities it is only in the last couple of decades that Industry has taken a more proactive approach to increasing Indigenous employment.
Global demand for energy transition metals to support a clean energy transition is increasing pressure to extract more terrestrial and seabed minerals and metals from the Pacific. So what is the risk of the Pacific becoming a sacrifice zone in the name of a global energy transition?
The AMIRA P9 project launched in 1962 with the aim of implementing mathematical modelling and computer simulation in mineral processing. Half a century later and the most recent iteration of the project – AMIRA P9Q – has just wrapped up.
