• Professor Rick Valenta

    Complex Orebodies - the story so far

    10 May 2019 9:00am10:00am
    The Complex Orebodies program has now been going for 15 months. The program has the aim of identifying the challenges and solutions related to responsible unlocking of Complex Orebodies - orebodies which are currently inaccessible due to complexities across the range of Social, Environmental, Governance and Technical areas. This presentation will provide an update on the overall program, its performance against the original objectives, and future plans.
  • Professor Malcolm Powell

    Applying Integrated Process Knowledge to viable recovery of complex orebodies

    3 May 2019 9:00am10:00am
    The seminar is linked to the risk factors preventing the utilisation of 75% of the world's large known copper resources.  A picture will be painted of how being able to link the processing route to the knowledge of primary rock properties can enable modelling, and therefore risk reduction and potential acceptance by the industry, of dramatically different approaches to the mining process.  Linking technical understanding to mapping routes that can dramatically change social benefit, environmental impact, water and energy usage, tailing and waste management, and long-term society benefit from mineral resources.
  • James Vaughan

    Processing Iron Oxide Copper Gold Uranium Ore

    12 April 2019 9:00am10:00am
    Iron oxide copper gold uranium ore is an important source of metal for Australia. Processing of IOCG-U ore is complex due to sequential separations resulting in multiple products and the need to carefully consider the deportment of radioactive elements. ‘For the process to be effective, geologists mineral processors pyro and hydro-metallurgists must work together.’
  • Pyrite types and their effect on flotation electrochemistry

    5 April 2019 9:00am10:00am
    Pyrite is one of the most important minerals in the beneficiation of gold, platinum group metals, and base metals such as copper. However, “pyrite, is not pyrite, is not pyrite”. Many types of pyrite exist, with a high level of variability between them. Identifying different pyrite types within ores and understanding their properties has enormous benefits towards improving the flotation process.
  • Dr Chris Greet

    The parable of the blind man and the elephant!

    29 March 2019 9:00am10:00am
    The objective of this seminar is to impart how the composition of the grinding media can influence particle hydrophobicity and the flotation response, and secondly explore how measurement of pulp chemical parameters can be used to improve flotation outcomes.
  • Brett Garland

    Safety: What drives change and innovation

    22 March 2019 9:00am10:00am
    Do not wait for a disaster to improve the controls to prevent it.
  • Dr Roger Higgins

    Planning for Positive Post-Mine Legacies

    15 March 2019 9:00am10:00am
    The best examples of mine planning and closure work are transforming the notion of ‘the-life-of-the-mine”, so that closure is not simply the end of the mine, but a point in time in a much larger process of community development, environmental health, and economic transformation.

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