Location
Australia
There is a growing need within the mining industry for more integrated holistic approaches to managing mine waste and reduce related environmental footprints. To address this challenge, Evolution has entered into a three-year partnership with the University of Queensland through the Sustainable Transformational Reuse and Economic Alternatives for Mine Waste Project (UQ STREAM). National and international partnerships, and bespoke PhDs, will be provided at our Cowal Operation to identify reuse options for tailings and waste rock in a circular economy model, and unlock value streams within their mine waste.
The partnership will help to challenge the perception of mine waste being a zero-value product and enable increased efficiency, innovation, research, and knowledge sharing. It will equip the next generation of leaders and researchers with new skills, expertise, technologies, and techniques to demonstrate best practice Environmental Management Systems for waste management. Overall, UQ STREAM can prove that innovative problem-solving is business as usual at Evolution, positioning us at the forefront of sustainability research in the mining industry.

