News and Events

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.

CSRM have just released a new discussion paper on the social aspects of mine closure through their Social Aspects of Mine Closure Consortium.

The Gemstones and Sustainable Development Knowledge Hub – a project launched in 2017 by the University of Delaware, The University of Queensland and the University of Lausanne research mentioned in Vogue Australia.

A giant library filled with different types of rocks from north-west Queensland has been set up in Mount Isa, in an attempt to revolutionise mining exploration.

The University of Queensland with UQ Business School, Executive Education and the Sustainable Minerals Institute are partnering for the 2018 Mining Leaders Program. Applications are still open.

Kathryn Sturman addressed a Roundtable Discussion on Extractives and the SDGs: Partnerships to progress the goals hosted by Cardno, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network in Melbourne on 10 April 2018.

Dr Grant Ballantyne is the recipient of the 2017 Minerals Engineering International Young Person’s Award which was presented at the MEI Comminution ’18 Conference in Cape Town. This award is bestowed upon an outstanding candidate under the age of 35.

The research is expected to deliver innovative and feasible technology and methodology to rehabilitate tailings - the most costly and challenging domains at mine sites and refineries, in order to significantly improve economic and ecological sustainability of mining and minerals industries in Australia and overseas.

SMI-CMLR's Antony van der Ent and colleagues discuss the different techniques, based on X-rays, used for probing the internal distribution and chemical form of different elements in plants.