CRC TiME

Come find us at #DNAC24 for a chat at our booth 🚩

Guy Boggs and Rae Young are in Karratha this week for the Developing Northern Australia Conference. Visit our booth for: 🍃 Updates on our many projects delivering new tools, knowledge and frameworks to help regions in transition as well as those planning for new critical minerals development. 💡Updates from our friends at Greater Whitsunday Alliance (GW3) and Curtin University’s First Nation Ranger program. 👀 An opportunity to share your vision for the future of Northern Australia. You can also hear Guy’s keynote address, which will set out the case for rethinking the mining lifecycle. #dnac2024

🚨 In case you missed it 🚨 Our recent 'Restoring Country' webinar highlighted crucial training and education initiatives designed to support Indigenous people and communities as they lead partnerships and participate in mine closure and rehabilitation. Our speakers Zane H., Tim Milsom, and Gowan Bush shared valuable insights on: 📚 Current training opportunities in mine closure 🔍 Identifying skills gaps needed for now and the future 🏛️ Organisational challenges including liability, partnerships, legal issues, governance, and capacity barriers.

The Natural Capital Accounting project included a first attempt at testing: 💡 the NCA forecasting process; and 💡 the applicability of NCA as a planning tool for mining. Findings included that forecasting requires: 🍃 an in-depth understanding of the ecological context. 🍂 development of a mine plan that includes set forecasting time periods and a clear definition of activities to be undertaken during this. Importantly, it also found that historical ecological and other data can be used to forecast future condition performance and develop forecasted condition accounts. Read more about the case study at Hanson Australia's Gaskell Sand Quarry in the report: https://lnkd.in/gpbP2yhY #minerehabilitation #mining #research #naturalcapital #ESG #quarry #collaborative #naturepositive CSIRO

Thank you for spending time with us in Brisbane, Greys Palma, and for sharing your learnings. Enjoy the book!

Proud to be a part of this 👇

Have a break, have a KitKat with us (we’ll have chocolates) at the CRC TiME booth at the Developing Northern Australia Conference. Visit us to talk about the work underway to support: 🍫 regions in transition with new analytical tools and frameworks. 🍫 assessment and management of cumulative social, economic and environmental effects when mines close. 🍫adoption of Natural Capital Accounting in the mining industry (and beyond). Our CEO Dr Guy Boggs will also deliver the ‘Transforming the lifecycle of mining for the better’ keynote address.

Thank you for coming down and spending time with us, UQ Strategic Partnerships 🎉

Great few days over in Meeanjin (Brisbane) for the annual #CRCTiME forum. Inspired and excited about progressing with our steering committee to continue developing a #FirstNations VET pathway to address the current gap in training and education options in post mining transitions and mine closure. A few key learnings I took away: - Communication is key and subtle differences in language can make a world of difference - remember this when engaging with different rights and stake holders! - Positive post mining outcomes won't be achieved without collaboration from a range of research, industry, regulators and, most importantly, community (especially First Nations!). - ESG is important but without financial leverage, complete buy in across all players is not likely - future opportunities depend on this. - There are a lot of passionate and incredibly talented people in this space that are driving better practice in mine transitions and we need to keep encouraging younger generations to engage. - Try to time attending conferences around your birthday and you might score a great book out of it 😂 #mineclosure #postclosurelanduse #102thingstodowithaholeintheground Zane H. Guy Boggs

Two days later and the beautiful halls of Customs House have been filled with conversations between people passionate about enabling post mine transitions that deliver value. How can you not be inspired? Baringa Barambah Meeanjinu’s amazing Welcome to Country connected us to this place we gathered and the many generations of dialogue held on Country. Followed by Rohitesh’s global contextualisation and great opening words on fundamentals for responsible closure; and keynote addresses by James Purtill and Raina Hattingh each day established the opportunity for shared learning to enable value based transitions that respond to ‘pull’ factors by post mine investors, rights holders and stakeholders and what it means for industry to be closure ready as we learn from the extensive closure transitions underway and imminent in Australia. With over 250 people working on our projects currently underway, it was exciting to see the breadth and progress of work from AMD remediation and testing guidance, to natural capital accounting, learning for enabling policy, pit lake transitions, education and training, First Nations knowledge sharing platforms, leadership journeys, economic transitions, strategy development and operationalising ESG the program covered the rich jig saw pieces that need connect to make transitions work and break the deadlock that has led us to such a limited track record of relinquished assets. A huge thanks to everyone who made this event a success. We finish inspired and with incredibly rich information shared so willingly by our partners to inform the year ahead-awesome knowing that we form part of a rich ecosystem committed to enabling change together!