Social responsibility

GCMS director Daniel Franks and colleagues, in a piece for Nature, explained that critical minerals haven't taken a national security turn, that's always been their meaning.

The Dhupuma Plateau in Northern Australia – a sprawling escarpment of red dirt and stringybark trees – is steeped in history. It’s where legendary Yolngu ancestor Ganbulapula looked up into the treetops, in search of native honeybees. It’s where Europeans built a space tracking station, where many prime ministers have visited, and where the Garma Festival is held. And it’s where the world’s first Indigenous bauxite mining company was born.

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.

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.

Lithium is an essential component of electric vehicle batteries, which are becoming more important as the world moves to a low-carbon energy future.

A survey of tailing professionals in the global mining industry has found that most have limited experience with information disclosure or community engagement.

The Sustainable Minerals Institute’s Professor Daniel Franks has been awarded $1.2 million as part of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships scheme.

The University of Queensland delivered a 3-month program for African leaders, combining online learning with a visit to Australia.

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.