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SMI's WH Bryan Mining Geology Research Centre will play a major role in the design and management of the new $27.125 million Strategic Resources Exploration Program in which The University of Queensland has been invited to take a leadership role. 

Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP), or black lung, is a potentially fatal, irreversible lung disease caused by breathing in coal mine dust.

The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) has welcomed the release of a study on the health risks of lead exposure as it relates to the air quality and exposure pathways in the Queensland mining city of Mount Isa.

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