The Minerals Industry Cooperation Initiative (MICI) project at the University of Queensland, Australia, has launched a new web-site to improve the way mining, minerals processing and quarrying industries access hazard-related information using Internet technology. The site is called MIRMgate (www.mirmgate.com), an acronym for Minerals Industry Risk Management Gateway. MIRMgate site development started in June 2002, and the site was launched in March 2004. MIRMgate provides effective access to minerals operations related, hazard-based topics in a risk assessment framework using "metadata" technology. The site is similar to an organized library of on-line resources that draws from national and international sources and is freely accessible to all minerals industry personnel via the Internet. This paper introduces the MIRMgate concept and provides an explanation of the system. MIRMgate resource selection processes and services are outlined, and an overview of future activities is provided.
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