TY - Report AU - Leah Mason AU - Damien Giurco AU - Corinne Unger PY - 2013 T1 - Adapting to climate risks and extreme weather: guide for mining - minerals industry professionals PB - National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility DO - https://doi.org/APO-34488 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/34488 AB - 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. ER -