Mount Keith Nickel Operation has one of Australia’s biggest tailings dams – and it’s also a massive mineral carbon sink. ‘Mineral carbonation’ is a natural chemical weathering process where carbon...
Category - Environment
The broadening of political support for carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) is a big step along the path towards least-cost emissions reduction in Australia. The Federal Labor Party’s...
As the recovery from COVID-19 begins, investing in gas will entrench the same problems as coal, including high energy costs, climate damage and pollution, violations of land rights, and a...
A NEW International Energy Agency (IEA) report highlights the massive potential of energy efficiency to create jobs, cut bills and address climate change, but Australia can do much more to seize this...
The Minerals Council of Australia‘s (MCA) Climate Action Plan, released recently, demonstrates the ongoing commitment by the Australian minerals industry to decarbonising the economy and...
The only centre of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere for accurately testing ancient groundwater up to a million years old has opened in South Australia. CSIRO physicist Dr Axel Suckow at the Noble...
The University of South Australia has a leading role in the new MinEx Cooperative Research Centre dedicated to developing a more sustainable and productive minerals industry for Australia. Supported...
Australia has been urged to build on work to date on carbon capture and storage (CCS) by playing a lead role and contributing to world efforts to massively reduce the cost of meeting international...
Whether we like it or not, Australians rely on mining to keep up their current lifestyle – our phones, cars and even medical equipment use materials pulled from the Earth. But with more than 50,000...
Mine rehabilitation case study shows the way forward A resource company case study project to rehabilitate former mining land shows that better environmental outcomes can be achieved, Environment...
In an effort to quantify the criticality of the 62 metals on the Period Table of Elements, a group of Yale researchers has published a new paper providing key insights into how extracting the metals...
The government’s refusal to approve mine development applications in Banded Iron Formation ranges of Western Australia’s Mid West could seriously jeorpardise future economic development...
