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University of Queensland researchers have published the first ever global dataset of mining induced displacement and resettlement, giving mining companies an evidence base to develop best practice.
It has been four years in development and contains 270 resettlement events.

Newcrest Mining Ltd has doubled-down on its commitment to communities by sending staff to a week-long social performance workshop hosted by The University of Queensland.

A University of Queensland researcher has co-written the first publicly available Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) for a proposed gas project in Papua New Guinea.

UQ Sustainable Minerals Institute's Associate Professor Nicholas Bainton said the report’s publication demonstrates the slow evolution of the international community’s expectations of the extractive industries.

Extracting Innovations: Mining, Energy and Technological Change in the Digital Age is co-edited by SMI affiliates Professor Saleem H. Ali and Dr. Tim Grice just published by Taylor and Francis – CRC Press, considers the most contemporary innovations propelling the extractive industries forward while also creating new environmental and social challenges.

The purpose of the Guide is to enable governments and other stakeholders to better manage the environmental and human rights impacts of mining, in a way that promotes just and sustainable outcomes for local communities and inclusive governance of the mining sector.