‘High voltage’ mineral processing technology with the potential to significantly reduce energy consumption and help the mining industry decarbonise is one step closer thanks to funding from the Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer.
Queensland's emerging critical minerals industry has received a boost with the conceptual launch of a state-of-the-art processing plant designed by researchers from the Sustainable Minerals Institute.
A new type of sinter developed by University of Queensland researchers could accelerate the iron and steelmaking industry’s efforts to reduce its carbon emissions by requiring over 20% less coking coal to produce.
Iron and steelmaking account for 8% of the world’s carbon emissions and researchers from The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) are working to develop an alternative to the current smelting process that could rapidly accelerate the energy transition.
The AMIRA P9 project launched in 1962 with the aim of implementing mathematical modelling and computer simulation in mineral processing. Half a century later and the most recent iteration of the project – AMIRA P9Q – has just wrapped up.
The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) is pleased to announce leading researcher and industry collaborator Professor Mohsen Yahyaei has been appointed Director of the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC).
Researchers from the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) and mining industry representatives are confident major strides in mineral processing are ahead following the first in-person meeting of the Collaborative Consortium for Coarse Particle Processing Research (CPR).
Associate Professor Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Group Leader – Mine Waste Transformation & Characterisation (MIWATCH), discusses the best way for the mining industry to reduce mine waste.
A new United Nations resolution on Environmental aspects of minerals and metals management will build on work undertaken by the United Nations Environment Programme and The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute.
