University of Tasmania Field Trip: Dr. Anita Parbhakar-Fox
Channel: Olympus Australia and New Zealand
Date: 2017-09-28

See how Olympus teamed up with the University of Tasmania to help facilitate a student field trip with an undergraduate third year class. 

The trip was lead by Dr. Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Research Fellow in Geoenvironmental Studies, ARC Transforming the Mining Value Chain Research Hub, and was focused on characterising mine waste materials, largely formed from gold mining, in order to identify if these waste materials have contributed to the negative health of some of the creek systems in the area and if so, how to rehabilitate and manage them better in the future.

Anita's focus is on acid rock drainage and how mine waste is managed with the view to developing strategies to help the mining industry better characterise their future waste materials, in order to allow them to safeguard the environment from the impacts of mining.

For the field trip, Olympus provided the University of Tasmania with a TERRA Portable XRD System, enabling Anita and the students to get an infield answer as to what minerals were being dealt with, allowing the team to understand the type of waste materials leeching out into the creeks, river systems and the environment.

Learn more about the ARC Transforming the Mining Value Chain Research Hub here: http://www.utas.edu.au/tmvc/home