Environmental Impacts Reduced With New Mining Technique

Researchers from The University of Western Australia have developed a progressive new mining technique in collaboration with The CSIRO, the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Exeter. The new technique, which uses electric fields to extract metals from hard rock ore, could replace the traditional digging method of mining, a method which results in considerable environmental damage and global estimates of 100 gigatonnes of soil waste each year.

Professor Henning Prommer from UWA’s School of Earth Sciences joins Jeff Bullen on On the Record to discuss this new technique and what it could mean for mining in the future…

on the record mining technique 11-5-21