The recent Life of Mine Conference recorded its highest attendance ever with almost 400 delegates from around the world, travelling to Brisbane for the event co-hosted by the Sustainable Minerals Institute Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry and AusIMM.
Invasive weeds are considered to be one of the major threats to the long-term success of post-mine rehabilitation. Therefore, many mine sites closely monitor the presence, abundance, distribution, and spread of weed species in their rehabilitated areas.
American undergraduate students have experienced Australian mine site restoration firsthand as part of a new course delivered under the Sustainable Minerals Institute’s (SMI) partnership with the University of Delaware (UD).
The Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation's Professor Longbin Huang, Rio Tinto and Queensland Alumina Limited have been recognised for collaborative research into technologies that could turn bauxite residue, or ‘red mud’, into soil capable of growing plants.
The collapse of the tailings dam at the Corrego de Feijão iron ore mine near Brumadinho in Brazil in January 2019 highlighted again the very serious risks associated with managing mining waste.
SMI hosted a group from the International Network for Acid Prevention (INAP), including representatives from member companies Agnico Eagle Mines, Anglo American, BHP, Kinross Gold, Newcrest, Newmont, Rio Tinto and Teck Resources.
