A virtual atlas offering unprecedented insights into Australia’s mine waste sites has been released after geoscientists from across the country, including The University of Queensland (UQ), joined forces for a nationwide, collaborative project.
The mining industry must re-evaluate how it designs mass underground mines and prioritises risks if it plans to operate at extreme depths, according to a cave mining expert.
Sharing the environmental and social challenges facing an increasingly metal-hungry society will be a major aim for The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute’s (SMI) Associate Professor Anita Parbhakar-Fox as she steps into her new role as a Superstar of STEM.
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.
Researchers from the Sustainable Minerals Institute’s (SMI) WH Bryan Mining Geology Research Centre (BRC) are creating a 3D model of Queensland that will place at the fingertips of explorations geologists an unmatched amount of the state’s data resources.
Roughly 600,000 sq km of Queensland’s deep crust has been modelled as part of a collaborative project that aims to equip the state’s resource explorers with information to help focus their efforts.
Predicting where ‘new economy minerals’ will be found in Queensland is set to be easier thanks to a collaborative project between the Sustainable Minerals Institute’s (SMI) W.H. Bryan Mining & Geology Research Centre (BRC) and the Geological Survey of Queensland (GSQ).
Discovering new mineral deposits in Queensland will be easier than ever thanks to a new series of technical atlases published by the Sustainable Minerals Institute’s (SMI) W.H. Bryan Mining & Geology Research Centre (BRC) and their partners at the Geological Survey of Queensland (GSQ).
Moving and managing mine waste safely is an ongoing challenge for the mining industry but research underway at The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute suggests that re-mining the waste could offer an environmental and economic solution.
