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Argentina’s Secretary of Mining Meets with SMI Chile’s Senior Leadership
Luis E. Lucero, Argentina’s top mining authority, held a productive meeting with the leadership team of SMI Chile, the Director of the Sustainable Minerals Institute at The University of Queensland, and the Australian Ambassador to Chile, with the aim of exploring potential avenues for collaboration between SMI Chile — The University of Queensland’s International Centre in Chile — and Argentina’s mining ecosystem.
Nathalie Jamett presents in Peru on the benefits of an integrated water system
As part of the 1st Moquegua Water Conference, SMI Chile researcher Dr Nathalie Jamett presented the work developed in Chile to advance towards an integrated and collaborative water supply model.
Francisca Rivero participates in “Women and Mining” seminar at UDD
The General Manager and Acting Executive Director of SMI Chile was one of the panellists at the event organised by the Faculty of Engineering at the Universidad del Desarrollo, which addressed the challenges and opportunities facing the mining sector in relation to...
SMI Chile team delivers workshop to test water management tool
The collaborative workshop took place at the campus of the Universidad Católica del Norte and brought together representatives from academia, industry and the public sector, with the aim of validating scenarios and criteria related to water use and supply in the...
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World Economic Forum names University of Queensland sand mining company among the world’s most innovative
The spin-off company OreSand Inc., headed by Professor Daniel Franks of the Sustainable Minerals Institute, is already in talks with the Chilean mining industry about the possibility of applying this renowned technological development in Chile, which drastically reduces waste and produces sand as a by-product.
Puentes Australes: Forging the future of mining through Australia-Chile collaboration
With the support of the Australian Embassy in Chile, SMI-ICE-Chile held the meeting “Puentes Australes: Forging the future of mining through Australia-Chile collaboration”, which was attended by the Minister of Mining Aurora Williams, leaders of the main mining companies operating in Chile, union representatives, academics and experts from the University of Queensland and the technology transfer company JKTech.
SMI-ICE-Chile meets with the UDD to strengthen joint work
In the context of Rick Valenta’s visit to Chile, Director of Sustainable, we held a fruitful working meeting with officials from the Universidad del Desarrollo and the Center for Research in Technologies for Society (C+) of the UDD School of Engineering, an institution with which we have maintained a close relationship for several years.
The intense agenda of SMI-ICE-Chile in Peru
Laura Mottola represented us as a speaker at the CIIT Latam Congress 2025, recently held in Lima. Doug Aitken took advantage of the opportunity to hold a series of meetings with government authorities, academic and industry leaders to explore opportunities for collaboration in the neighboring country.
Specialized media highlight our leadership program for women in mining
Two Chilean trade publications, Revista Minería Chilena and Reporte Minero published articles on the “Leadership Program for Women in the Mining Industry,” organized by SMI-ICE-Chile and The University of Queensland.