Daily alerts

• Thursday: The Treasurer of Australia at the World Mining Congress
• Wednesday: Mining between a rock and a hard place, floods and more.
• Tuesday: Queensland Premier welcomes mining leaders from 70 countries
• Monday: at the 26th World Mining Congress, Brisbane

Media releases

• Stories from CSIRO at the World Mining Congress 2023
• Between a rock and a hard place – welcome to the future of mining
• Who’s leading from the front on emissions reduction?
• More storms, fires, and floods: how will extreme weather events affect mining operations?
• The art of closure: mines turning into physics labs, parks, pumped hydro…
• Towards zero deaths, robot dozers, saving sand, Moon mining: just another day for Brisbane’s mining pioneers
• Can mining walk and talk at the same time? The future of our planet depends on it
• The future for our planet

Third-party releases

• New planning tool offers miners in dry regions a shared water supply solution (The University of Queensland)
• Rushing to extract critical minerals could compromise sustainable development (The University of Queensland)
• Big names in mining team up to demonstrate remote semi-autonomous dozer tech (Thiess)
• From liability to opportunity: Australian mine transition experts take world stage – from the Cooperative Research Centre for Transitions in Mining Economies (CRC TiME)
• ICMM announces collective commitment to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the mining industry (ICMM)

Op-eds

• How will climate change affect mining? – Professor Ian Lowe
• Queensland host state partner of World Mining Congress 2023 – by Minister for Resources, Scott Stewart

Speeches

• “It’s about time you got here!” – Tuesday’s Speeches at the World Mining Congress
• Transformation in Mining – Sinead Kaufman, Chief Executive, Minerals, Rio Tinto
• Professor Marek Cala – Opening Speech, World Mining Congress
• Mike Henry, BHP, speech at World Mining Congress 2023
• Mark Cutifani – ‘Change in the minerals industry to address global expectations supporting decarbonisation and minerals supply”
• Larry Marshall, CSIRO, Opening Remarks, World Mining Congress 2023

• Clever machines making mining safer on Earth and, one day, in space
• Deadly slopes revealed with computer vision and radar
• From finding cancers to sorting minerals
• Hunting for critical minerals with Sandra Occhipinti
• Blasting for net zero emissions
• The mines of the future: on Earth, on the Moon, and in space

Media welcome. Access is limited and security tight.

To attend plenary be at the Merivale Street security gate at 8 for access. Speaker list below.

For Treasurer’s media call and speech, be at the Merivale Street security gate at 9 am. 

Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe AO op ed

The potential impacts of climate change are not well known or understood by the mining industry, despite them being clearly identified in the sixth volume of the IPCC report released in 2021-23.

Addressing impacts of climate change is a global problem. Industries that operate globally must be part of the solution by actively developing responses that can be both adapted and adopted across their locations.

• “It’s about time you got here!” – Hua Guo
• “We can be proud of the mining sector” – Marek Cala
• “Achieving net zero is only possible if we completely reimagine our future” – Larry Marshall
• “Queensland plans to be a renewable energy super power” – Annastacia Palaszczuk
• “Demand for critical minerals for clean-energy technologies [will] grow very quickly” – Tim Gould
• “We can eliminate discrimination, harassment, and assault” – Rohitesh Dhawan
• “The national golden goose” – Mike Henry

Speech to the 26^th World Mining Congress Brisbane, 28 June 2023

Slide 1: Heading slide

Thank-you Jillian, it is great to be able to talk to you this morning from my hometown here in Brisbane.

 I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Owners on both sides of the river – the Jagera and Turrubal peoples, and also extend that respect to all other First Nations people in the audience today – welcome to Brisbane!

Thanks Jillian for that kind introduction.  

I would like to begin by acknowledging the Jagera people and the Turrbal people as the traditional owners of the land we are on today and pay my respects to their elders past and present. Caring for our lands and our people is the most important job we do. 

As Dr Guo said this is the first time Australia has hosted the conference in its 65-year history, and I am very pleased that, after a disrupted couple of years with the pandemic, we are finally all together.  

CSIRO has worked with the mining industry for over a century, and as one of the largest minerals research and development groups in the world, we have a strong track record delivering innovative solutions across the value chain. 

Big names in mining team up to demonstrate remote semi-autonomous dozer tech

Thiess, Caterpillar and Hastings Deering deliver off-site remote operation of Cat® MineStarTM Command for dozing live at the World Mining Congress in Brisbane (27–29 June 2023).

Global mining services provider Thiess has teamed up with original equipment manufacturer Caterpillar and local Cat dealer Hasting Deering to demonstrate Thiess’ semi-autonomous dozing operation using a remote operating station (ROS) located over 850km away from the site.

The urgency to provide metals for the energy transition is putting pressure on the legal safeguards and approval processes governing mining, according to University of Queensland (UQ) researchers, and the consequences could compromise sustainable development.

In a report commissioned by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and produced by UQ’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI), researchers examined over 60 countries to identify the risks associated with governance of mining and mineral value chains in the energy transition.