OPINION by Minister for Resources, Scott Stewart

London, Madrid, Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro. They are not just Olympic cities.

They have also hosted one of the world’s biggest resource industry events and next week it will be Brisbane’s turn to host the World Mining Congress.

More than 3000 delegates from more than 50 countries will make Brisbane and Queensland their base for the World Mining Congress.

It’s the first time in its 65-year history the event is being held in Australia. And what better place to host the event than Brisbane. Where else but Queensland!

We are planning an active media program for the Congress. If you would like to receive our media releases and/or interview delegates, please contact Niall Byrne, World Mining Congress Media Manager on +61-417-131-977 or email media@wmc2023.org.

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Accreditation

Media are also welcome to attend the Congress.

Attendance is complimentary to journalists from print, TV, radio and other organisations, who are attending the event as part of their professional duties.

We also offer complimentary registration to freelance journalists who can demonstrate that that they have been assigned by a media organisation to report on the Congress.

Resourcing Tomorrow – Creating Value for Society

Media welcome at 26^th World Mining Congress

Where will we find the lithium, cobalt, copper, sand and other minerals needed for a sustainable net-zero world?

How can we create and operate zero-impact mines?

AI, EV and autonomous machines are already making mines cleaner and safer. What are the lessons across society?

How can we transform mining’s relationship with First Nations people around the world?

Can we/should we mine with plants? In space?

How can we build infrastructure sustainably in the Global South?

Find the answers to these any many other questions, with over 3,500 of the world’s mining leaders, technologists, and researchers from 70 countries who are meeting at the World Mining Congress in Brisbane from 26 to 29 June 2023.

Accredited media are invited to attend the Congress

Over 1,000 physicists gathered in Adelaide for the 24th Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics from 11-16 December 2022.

Media releases from the Congress:

• 16 Dec Giant machines for giant questions
• 15 Dec We need to lose our fear of the ‘nuclear’ word
• 15 Dec An unlucky star. A new comb. Nuclear jobs – call to action
• 14 Dec Boil a kettle with fusion energy. Diamonds in your phone. Mining for dark matter
• 14 Dec Fusion energy – Reactions: interviews available with Australian nuclear physicists at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress in Adelaide
• 13 Dec Quantum composer, fusion energy, navigation without GPS, war disrupts physics, nuclear jobs
• 12 Dec Before the Big Bang, nuclear jobs, quantum music
• 9 Dec Media alert: Nobel lasers, before the Big Bang, are we winning the quantum race, and more – Congress preview

• The biggest radio telescope
• The dark side of the universe – could Australia host a gravitational wave detector?
• Too wet for next generation telescopes

Australian researchers are in pole position to solve some of the Universe’s greatest mysteries by participating in three massive global projects.

• A call to action to train a nuclear savvy generation
• Australia will need thousands of people trained in nuclear science
• For submarines, cancer treatments, space industry, mining…

Our new submarine fleet, new cancer therapies, quantum computing, space industry and satellites, the extraction of critical minerals and monitoring the environment will all demand levels of training in nuclear science we cannot at present meet.

Stories from the Australian Institute of Physics Congress 2022 in Adelaide.

We’ve made a new comb: introducing the world’s most accurate ruler – for fast internet, finding planets, detecting explosives and earthquakes and more

Fusion energy

The US fusion news is amazing. But it’s a long way from endless clean power. The researchers probably generated enough excess energy to boil a kettle.

Interviews available with Australian nuclear physicists at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress in Adelaide

Reactions: interviews available with Australian nuclear physicists at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress in Adelaide

The US experimenters apparently have got out more energy than they put in in a fusion experiment, thus technically achieving ignition. This indeed is a breakthrough worthy of celebration.

However, there is a long way to go. From the nature of the facility where the experiment was performed, I’d say this energy came in a single pulse or “flash”. So, for a viable power source it would be necessary to have sustained repeated such pulses, and be able to collect the energy released efficiently. There’s still a long way to go. That said, achieving ignition is an essential milestone that apparently now has been reached. Practical fusion power is a step closer to reality.