Mining brings some benefits to some but when extraction is over, the lack of wider benefits to all is keenly felt.
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The latest survey of residents in coal seam gas regions reveals continuing lukewarm attitudes towards the industry.
A new mapping study shows that roads have sliced and diced almost the entire land surface of Earth, leaving huge areas prone to illegal logging, mining and hunting.
Buildings, thinkers, books, films and works of art can ask central questions about how to live on this planet and its consequences.
Problems occur when a country falls in love with gold, and silver might be about to get a boost from proposed solutions.
Are high levels of violence and displacement in Central America and Mexico caused by natural resource exploitation?
More than 95% of industrial diamonds are synthetic so why aren’t more people using them in engagement rings?
The island’s latest mining boom threatens a critically endangered lemur – and puts human lives at risk.
South Africa’s central bank should urgently insulate the rand from further financial chaos by imposing tighter exchange controls.
Local people in India are supposed to be protected by progressive laws. But the reality is a far cry from that.
Mozambique has made significant progress in its fight against poverty despite recent economic and political challenges
How WA managed to emerge from the mining boom with an estimated debt burden of $40 billion is one of the West’s great mysteries. Or not, if you bother to look more closely.
The petroleum resource rent tax must be reformed to generate any significant revenue.
In Chile, the impact of mining and the lack of regulation of water markets have produced water scarcity conflict in local Indigenous communities.
Mine communications are complex, slow and unreliable. The solution to keeping miners safe, and rescuing them when disaster strikes, might just be in their hands already.
Mining will continue to be a dominant force in Western Australia’s future but the health sector is the more likely to deliver jobs and growth than tourism or agriculture, new research shows.
A new documentary examines indigenous activism in Peru – calling attention to the dark side of the country’s economic boom.
iPhones, Boeing 787s, Teslas and a whole host of other technologies all rely on rare metals – so much so that a new era beckons.
The mining industry is more resilient because of the recent downturn and it will be global supply and demand that will affect these companies in the future.
The literary hero represents a sea change in the region’s history.
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Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, RMIT University
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Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware (USA); Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Andrew Dempster est un·e adhérent·e de The Conversation
Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
