Renewable energy technologies will increasingly drive demand on mineral resources, reshaping how minerals are extracted and processed. This shift present new challenges in sustainability and environmental impact, while also fostering innovative technologies. Our research focuses on both fundamental and applied studies inn mineral separation, and environmental impacts related to mineral extraction and recovery.
We aim to develop smart methods for exploring minerals and delivering sustainable extraction and recovery technologies and separations to minimise losses of high value minerals, environmental impact, and energy/water consumption.
Our work covers a range of applications including the design of new and innovative techniques for processing of low grade and complex ores, utilisation of mine tailings, sustainable mine waste management, mineral exploration and characterisation, and in situ recovery technologies.
