Welcome to the
Sustainable Mining Community

The Sustainable Mining Community is a central hub for credible environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information to support capability uplift in the sector. Explore content curated for you:

Industry

Industry

For mining operators and explorers, suppliers, manufacturers, services providers, researchers, consultants and other professionals.

Community

Community

For regional community members and local government officials.

First Nations

First Nations

For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island community members.

Investors

Investors

For those involved in investing in or lending capital to support mining exploration, development or extraction.

Sustainable Mining Community Forum official rules and community guidelines

The Sustainable Mining Community Forum, ‘Collaborative Conversations’, is a professional community dedicated to boosting ESG capability, awareness, and knowledge sharing across Queensland’s critical minerals industry. 

Through this Forum you can contribute to discussions on ESG and share your own experiences. The aim of the Forum is to foster innovation, collaboration and knowledge sharing that will help deliver better sustainability outcomes and build ESG capability in the industry. 

To ensure a productive, safe and collaborative environment for all, users of the Forum agree to follow the below guidelines. Failure to do so may result in warnings, content removal, temporary suspension or a permanent ban.

Be Professional

Speak respectfully and do not harass, discriminate or make personal attacks against other users.

Stay on Topic

This platform is for:

  • Discussing ESG capability uplift in the Queensland critical minerals sector and beyond.
  • Asking relevant questions to or seeking general opinions on ESG practice from the Sustainable Mining Community.

Please keep all posts relevant to these themes.

Share Safe, Accurate Information

Make every effort to share accurate and factual information.

Do not promote unsafe practices.

You are responsible for making sure the information you provide is correct and not misleading.

Users of the forum should apply critical thinking to all information presented and seek independent verification where required.

Protect Confidential Information

Don’t share company data, private details, or internal documents.

Avoid posting anything you are not authorised to share.

Keep Posts Clear and Helpful

Be constructive and factual.

Use clear language and explain technical terms when needed.

Provide practical insights that support skill development.

No Spam or Unapproved Promotion

No ads or sales pitches.

Promotion of services or products is prohibited and may be subject to removal without notice.

Don’t flood the Forum with repeated or irrelevant messages.

Follow Posting Etiquette

Use the correct forum category.

Search before posting to avoid duplicates.

Avoid all caps, excessive emojis, or long message chains.

Respect Moderators

Follow directions from moderators.

Don’t argue publicly about moderation decisions.

Report issues instead of escalating them in chat.

Prohibited Content

Prohibited content may include but is not limited to:

  • Any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable.
  • Content that promotes unsafe or illegal mining practices.
  • Political or union campaigning.

Prohibited Behaviour

Prohibited behaviour may include but is not limited to:

  • Stalking, intimidating, harassing or causing harm to another user.
  • Impersonating a person or entity to guide, host, falsely assert or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation or position.
  • Uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting, or otherwise making available content known to contain viruses, computer code/files/programs designed to adversely impact, destroy or impair another party’s enjoyment and use, or to circumvent limitations or restrictions on access.

Disclaimer

This Forum is maintained and operated by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), and these guidelines should be used in conjunction with the Sustainable Mining Community website Terms of Use [link here]. In particular, AusIMM is not responsible for statements made or opinions advanced by users of this Forum; and is not liable (whether in contract, tort, under statute or otherwise) for any loss, damage, or expense (including special, indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit or revenue, loss of use, legal costs and defence or settlement costs) that you or any other person incurs arising directly or indirectly out of or referable to material on this Forum, website or to third party material.

AusIMM are the authority with respect to the interpretation, application, and enforcement of these guidelines, which may be updated without notice at any time.