%T Adapting to climate risks and extreme weather: guide for mining - minerals industry professionals %A Leah Mason %A Damien Giurco %A Corinne Unger %I National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility %D 2013 %K Resources industry, %K Risk, %K Climate change, %K Power resources %U https://apo.org.au/node/34488 %X Abstract Extreme weather events in Australia over recent years have highlighted the costs for Australian mining and mineral processing operations of being under-prepared for adapting to climate risk. For example, the 2010/2011 Queensland floods closed or restricted production of about forty out of Queensland’s fifty coal mines costing more than $2 billion in lost production. %9 Report