Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry (CWiMI)

The Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland

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The Centre conducts research towards achieving sustainable water management in the mining industry. We aim to develop key technologies for the measurement, monitoring and modelling of water in the context of mine operations, their surrounding environments and regional communities.

Website https://smi.uq.edu.au/cwimi

Key science sectors

• Environment and nature
• Mining/resources

Strengths and capabilities

• Hydrological impacts of land use and climate change
• Water accounting and reporting
• Water quality impacts of mining
• Mine water balances
• Water risk profiling over mine life cycle
• Optimising water flow and quality monitoring designs
• Optimising mine water management

Number of research staff

Upto 20 research staff

Address

Sustainable Minerals Institute, Sir James Foots Building 47A, St Lucia QLD 4072

Lead researcher

• Professor Neil McIntyre—A leader in water resources research - ARC Future Fellowship in Water Sensitive Mining

Achievements of the centre

• Development of Hierarchical Systems Modelling (HSM) flowsheet-style software tool

Organisation type

• University Research Centre