Dr. Nigel Wight, a researcher at SMI-ICE-Chile, along with a team from the Sustainable Minerals Institute at The University of Queensland, have just published a major scientific study titled "What Remains: Disaster Risk and Emergency Preparedness in a Chilean Mining Town", in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Flinders University will lead the newly funded ARC Training Centre for Advancing Archaeology in the Resources Sector, recently awarded $5 million through the Australian Research Council (ARC)’s Industrial Transformation Research Program.
In a new paper for international journal One Earth, researchers at The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute looked at Indonesia’s nickel production and proposed how taking a broad view at the problems involved in climate solutions could help reduce those risks.
Anthropologists, lawyers, and others from the Northern Land Council (NLC) received and shared expertise with Sustainable Minerals Institute researchers in a face-to-face Indigenous Cultural Heritage Management workshop tailored to the Northern Territory context.
The collaborative and outstanding work of SMI’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM) has been recognised at the 2024 UQ Research and Translation Awards.
We had the privilege of spending the week in Roebourne for rehearsals, to attend the prison performance and the final community concert at the invitation of Big hART (arts and social change organization) and the local Indigenous members of their board. The aim of the visit was to start building relationships with First Nations artists as we undertake our research project Resourceful Acts Cultural Livelihoods on Resource Extraction Frontiers.
A survey of tailing professionals in the global mining industry has found that most have limited experience with information disclosure or community engagement.
The Australian mining industry was promised billions of dollars in the recent federal budget, but despite this funding, virtually nothing has been allocated to help communities engage with new mining activities.
