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  • SMI - 2019 in Review

    SMI - 2019 in Review

    Published on: 16 December 2019
    SMI's Year in Review highlights the progress we are making to find solutions to the complexities and challenges facing the resources indsutry, through our research, collaboration and stakeholder engagement.

  • ABC announces broadcast date for 'Minerals, materials and a sustainable future' TV Program

    Published on: 6 December 2019
    And that’s a wrap! The Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) and Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) hosted the Global Leadership Series event Minerals, materials and a sustainable future after months of planning, dozens of interviews, meetings with subject matters experts, and a couple of technical quandaries - and its already been picked up for broadcast.

  • SMI Honorary Professor named as 2019 Highly Cited Researcher in Environment and Ecology

    Published on: 5 December 2019
    ​Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) Honorary Professor Yong Sik Ok is one of the world’s most influential scientific minds, according to a new report.

  • Environment Centres launch training course to prepare junior environmental personnel for future of mining

    Published on: 5 December 2019
    SMI’s Environment Centres have launched a new training course to arm junior environmental staff with the technical skills necessary to face sustainability challenges in a rapidly evolving mining industry.

  • Make a Conscious Choice

    Published on: 5 December 2019
    As we move towards the end of the year, there are so many distractions to our normal tasks in life. The increase in road traffic and the pure demand on your time to be doing multiple tasks can result in momentary lapses of concentration. These distractions can have disastrous ramifications.

  • Les Minerales: Extracting our full potential

    As part of UQ’s Global Leadership Series, the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) have partnered with the ABC to create and broadcast a panel discussion which interrogates the role of minerals in a sustainable future.

    In recent years, equitable and sustainable development has become an increasing concern in the global arena. Strategies which reach towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals must address concerns of climate and renewable energy transitions. We now need to ask how minerals will contribute to achieving these goals.
  • From teaching space to television studio

    From teaching space to television studio

    Daniel Seed, PhD Candidate in Journalism and News Literacy from UQ is part of the production team on '360 - Minerals, materials and a sustainable future', a panel discussion program which is a collaboration between The University of Queensland and the ABC. It will be recorded at the St Lucia campus on 28 November as part of the UQ's Global Leadership Series.
  • The Complexities of Mineral Extraction Create Interesting Discussions on Sustainability

    The Complexities of Mineral Extraction Create Interesting Discussions on Sustainability

    Fourth year UQ journalism student Dante Aloni is part of the production team on 'Minerals, materials and a sustainable future', a panel discussion program which is a collaboration between The University of Queensland and the ABC. It will be recorded at the St Lucia campus on 28 November as part of the UQ's Global Leadership Series.

  • People-focused mine-closure practices are a step closer with the launch of a specialist e-library

    Published on: 11 November 2019
    University of Queensland researchers have launched a digital library focusing the mine closure conversation on people as part of the Social Aspects of Mine Closure Consortium, an industry-university collaboration between UQ’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) and six mining companies.

  • Coral discovery equips researchers with new environmental monitoring method

    Published on: 21 October 2019
    A rare element discovered in Great Barrier Reef coral skeletons will help scientists understand the environmental history of nearby regions.  

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Events

  

2020 Workshop on Acid and Metalliferous Drainage

23 Mar 2020–26 Mar 2020

20th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment

25 Oct 2020–29 Oct 2020

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