THE Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has backed Professor Garnaut’s climate change report, but warns the absence of a global climate agreement and transitional emissions trading scheme (ETS) could make it ‘environmentally ineffective’.
02/10/2008
THE MINERALS Council of Australia (MCA) is questioning the feasibility of targets outlined in a government climate change report.
10/09/2008
Mining industry leaders should end their scaremongering campaign over the carbon pollution reduction scheme, a coalition of union, environment, welfare and research groups said outside the headquarters of the Australian Coal Association (ACA).
24/11/2009
SOUTHERN Cross University Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Lee has been named a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), an independent body of 800 eminent Australian engineers and scientists driving technological solutions for a better Australia.
18/11/2009
ALUMINIUM smelters are set to feel the heat with the global fight against climate change to halve its emissions by 2050.
03/11/2008
AMERICAN professor Russell Flegal claims the emissions from mine and smelting operations in Mt Isa is the cause of the population’s lead poisoning.
09/03/2009
DIRECTOR of the world-class Ian Wark Research Institute at UniSA Professor John Ralston says that the very best skilling of the Australian population is imperative for the future of the minerals processing industry.
03/07/2009
FOUR prestigious scholarships have been awarded to University of Queensland engineering students in a bid to reward and encourage outstanding students who are embarking on a career in the resources sector.
10/06/2009
THE UNIVERSITY of Queensland (UQ) and the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) have renewed their joint focus on the Queensland minerals and energy sector’s continuing need for skilled employees and world-class research.
09/06/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Resources Council says it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CQUniversity to address skills shortages in the minerals resources sector.
28/07/2009
CURTIN University of Technology researchers say they could significantly reduce minerals processing costs.
07/05/2009
THE AUSTRALASIAN Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (The AusIMM), in conjunction with the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI), and the Centre for Sustainable Resource Processing (CSRP), are proud to present the Sustainable Development Indicators in the Minerals Industry Conference 2009 (SDIMI 2009). SDIMI 2009 is the fourth in a series of international conferences, aimed at improving the capacity of the minerals sector to contribute to the global goal of sustainable development.
23/06/2009
From 1 July 2009, ACMER, currently a unit within the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at the University of Queensland, and JKTech (the primary technology transfer vehicle for SMI Centres) will form a new unit to offer an expanded range of professional development and training courses to the global minerals and energy industries. The name of this new entity is SMI Knowledge Transfer.
01/07/2009
The Parker Centre has recognised the collaborative research efforts of the Centre’s "Impacts of Mineralogy on Hydrometallurgy" project team and the PhD research of former student Dr Geoffrey Carter.
23/11/2009