Funding

For the second year in a row, Sustainable Minerals Institute Research Fellow Juliana Segura-Salazar has won funding from Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA) to advance research into using ore-sand to reduce and prevent mine waste and help alleviate pressure on natural sand supplies that are being depleted far faster than they can be replenished.

Australian researchers, industry professionals and public servants will have access to sophisticated equipment as part of a new drone platform established by The University of Queensland (UQ) and AuScope.

Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) researcher Dr Jing Zhao has secured a major government grant to investigate microbes that have the potential to significantly accelerate alkaline mine waste rehabilitation.

Next generation drone technology will be put to the test in Australia’s mining industry as University of Queensland (UQ) researchers aim to make hyperspectral imaging more accessible than ever before.

The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute has received close to $2.4 million from the Queensland Government Office of Industrial Relations for research into occupational dust lung diseases.

The University of Queensland will play a crucial role in a multi-million-dollar four-year project which will see universities and industry working together to build commercialisation in Australia’s critical mineral supply chain that will create 1300 jobs.

Researchers at The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Mineral Institute have won five grants, totalling more than $1.2 million in funding, to develop new sustainable resource research from the Australian Coal Industry’s Research Program (ACARP).

A University of Queensland start-up company has secured $240,000 in venture capital to further develop technology focused on the environmental management of mine sites.

As demand for critical metals grows, the impact of increased mining on Pacific Islands nations with critical deposits is to be explored in a new international research project.

Queensland copper mine waste could deliver a key ingredient for the renewable energy revolution thanks to a three-year international study.