Media Release
November 9, 2005
UniSA leads minerals research boom - background information
Key players
- University of South Australia, Ian Wark Research Institute, the Special Research Centre for Particle and Material Interfaces, University of South Australia – led by Laureate Professor John Ralston FAA, FTSE (headquarters and lead institution)
- University of Queensland, Julius Krutschnitt Mineral Research Centre – led by Professor Tim Napier-Munn
- University of Newcastle, Australian Research Council Special Research Centre for Multiphase Processes – led by Professor Graeme Jameson FAA, FTSE, FREng
- University of Melbourne, Australian Research Council Special Research Centre for Particulate Fluids Processing - led by Professor Thomas Healy AO, FAA, FTSE; Professor David Boger FAA, FTSE; Professor Derek Chan.
- The Australian Federal Government
- The Government of South Australia
- AMIRA
- Founding industry partners - Anglo-Platinum; BHP Billiton; Orica;
Phelps Dodge; RioTinto;
Xtrata Technology
Funding
| Australian Federal Government, through the Australian Research Council | $8.6 million |
| AMIRA International, representing the minerals industry | $7.5m |
| State Government of South Australia | $2.5m |
| Universities of South Australia, Newcastle, Melbourne and Queensland | $4.0m |
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Total value |
$22.6 million |
Research
What you can imagine, AMSRI will aim to achieve - scientific innovations that are driven not only by cost savings in the minerals industries, but by a desire to improve the environment and apply new knowledge in its widest capacity to improve lives.
IMAGINE processing minerals without using a drop of water.
IMAGINE mining without any above ground land disruption or degradation.
IMAGINE using minerals to develop new clever materials that last longer
and are more versatile.
IMAGINE intelligent minerals probes that allow underground operations to
be monitored from an air-conditioned office kilometres away.
IMAGINE a minerals processing industry that treats water as a valuable
reagent that is recycled and not squandered.
IMAGINE connecting liquid flow through small tubes and then applying
that same minerals industry technology to unblocking human arteries.
Media contact
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Michèle Nardelli, office (08) 8302 0966 mobile 041 8823673 email michele.nardelli@unisa.edu.au
UniSA leads minerals research boom media release