Gavin Mudd

Gavin M. Mudd is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering at RMIT University, Australia. He was awarded a Ph.D. in environmental engineering in 2001, from the Victoria University of Technology. Mudd's research interests include environmental impacts, management of mine wastes, acid mine drainage, sustainability frameworks, life cycle assessment modelling and mine rehabilitation.

In October 2007, Gavin Mudd completed a report on Australia's Mining Industry entitled The Sustainability of Mining in Australia: Key Production Trends and Their Environmental Implications for the Future.

Selected recent publications[1]

• Sustainability of Uranium Mining and Milling: Toward Quantifying Resources and Eco-Efficiency
• Global Trends in Gold Mining : Towards Quantifying Environmental and Resource Sustainability? Resources Policy, 32 (1–2), 2007, pp 42–56.
• Gold Mining in Australia : Linking Historical Trends and Environmental and Resource Sustainability, Environmental Science and Policy, 10 (7–8), 2007, pp 629–644.
• An Analysis of Historic Production Trends in Australian Base Metal Mining, Ore Geology Reviews, 32 (1–2), 2007, pp 227–261.
• An Assessment of the Sustainability of the Mining Industry in Australia Australian Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering, 5 (1), 2007, pp 1–12.