What If We Treated Waste Like Ore with Anita Parbhakar-Fox

<p>What if we treated mine waste with the same curiosity and rigor as the orebody itself?</p><p>This month on GeOCHemISTea, Sam sits down with Dr. Anita Parbhakar-Fox to talk about rethinking mine waste across the life of mine. From environmental geometallurgy and waste characterization to valorization, closure planning, and the push toward net-zero mine waste, Anita challenges us to stop seeing waste as an afterthought.</p><p>Plus, over tea, we dig into the geoscience skills shortage, the pressures facing educators, and why inspiring the next generation requires supporting the people teaching them.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>For this episode we read:</strong></p><p><a href="https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/elements/article/19/6/371/632495/Action-Versus-Reaction-How-Geometallurgy-Can" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Action Versus Reaction: How Geometallurgy Can Improve Mine Waste Management Across the Life-Of-Mine (Parbhakar-Fox and Baumgartner, 2023)</a><a href="https://smi.uq.edu.au/blog/2023/08/war-on-mine-waste" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">War on mine waste (Parbhakar-Fox, 2023)</a></p><p><a href="https://smi.uq.edu.au/blog/miwatch-updates" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">MIWATCH Blog</a></p>