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...
Category - Environment
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...
On Wednesday the Katherine Town Council in the Northern Territory became the second local government area in the state to pass a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in unconventional gas...
Government funding has been cut to two anti-mining environmental groups in the Northern Territory which could lead to the both organisations shutting their doors for the foreseeable future. According...
One billion dollars worth of unconditional performance bonds have been returned to Western Australia’s resources industry since the introduction of the government’s Mining and...
Western Australia’s Mines Minister, Bill Marmion, has hosted a delegation of Chinese officials on a visit to the South West Hub Carbon Capture and Storage project. The Minister said this week’s...
As public comment closes on Energy Resources planned new underground uranium mine at Kakadu, activist groups are claiming more than 4000 individuals and organisations have made submissions calling...
