Queensland Department of Resources and Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland
In December 2021, we executed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Queensland Department of Resources, to participate in the collaborative “Secondary Prospectivity” project funded by the Geological Survey of Queensland (GSQ), and run by the Mine Waste Transformation through Characterisation (MIWATCH) group at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland.
The Secondary Prospectivity project aims to fill in a significant data gap, by sampling and characterising mine waste throughout Queensland, thereby highlighting opportunities for critical mineral extraction that may have previously been ignored or unknown. Our involvement offers an alternative to conventional processing of cobalt from pyrite, and demonstrates the applicability of our process across a range of deposits and waste compositions in Queensland.