Load and haul, Pilbara Operations Photo courtesy of Rio Tinto. Conditions of useThe following conditions of use have been provided by Rio Tinto: Photographs are available for external use by members of the public and copyright will be waived provided the end use is for research or education…

Queensland Resources Council (QRC) in consultation with leading researchers and industry has developed this short educational movie to provide an overview of a ‘low emission future’. The movie sets out a pathway to low-emission energy production incorporating renewable and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, and offers a…

Image courtesy of Mineral Information Institute.

This resource is an animated movie, which combines voice over, text and images to explain what is meant by magnetic imaging. It explains how magnetic imaging can assist in mineral exploration by measuring the local magnetic field characteristics of a surveyed region. It describes how an analysis of…

Malachite is a popular stone which has dark and light green banded areas, and this patterns give the stone its unique ornamental look unlike that of any other gemstone.

A manager at Rio Tinto Australia’s remote mining operations centre in Perth provides an insight into her career and remote controlled mining.

This is a video showing Marion 8200 Dragline in operation. Various quantitative details about the dragline, such as operating voltage, mass, boom length and bucket capacity are presented. The dragline is shown shifting overburden at the Curragh mine, near Blackwater in Queensland. The video explains that the piles…

A general introduction to the ‘Powering the Future’ forum conducted April 12, 2010 at the Brisbane PowerHouse. Matthew Forrest, ERM Executive General Manager Asset Optimisation, discusses the role of gas (and LNG) in the overall energy mix, the role of gas in reducing carbon intensity, structure of gas-fired…

Mica is one of the most sofest minerals in the world.