News and Events

This year’s SMI Networking Night was held on Thursday 14 June 2018. More than 30 UQ students attended from all SMI Centres, the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, and the School of Civil Engineering.

Leading research on red mud rehabilitation technologies raised the eye-brows of Rio Tinto’s senior delegation on June 8, 2018.

The University of Queensland and Université de Lorraine (France) have been collaborating intensively for over 7 years through the Sustainable Minerals Institute (UQ) and the Soil and Environment Laboratory (UL) as part of the LabEx RESSOURCES21 programme.

Professor Neil McIntyre is part of a scientific working group that met for three days last week at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara, California.

SMI's high voltage pulses (HVP) research mentioned in Canadian Mining Journal

SMI's Lynda Lawson co-writes new International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) report for the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development.

A new $469,000, three-year project has been launched to help mining and METS companies improve the energy efficiency of comminution processes.

Fifteen Vietnamese mining leaders toured New Acland Mine on Monday as part of a study tour exploring best practice and innovation in Australian mining that SMI is delivering.

Jo-Anne Everingham gave a plenary address and ran a workshop at the 8th Annual Best Practice Ecological Rehabilitation of Mined Lands Conference (2018) organised by  the Tom Farrell Institute for the Environment (TFI), the University of Newcastle on 12 April 2018.