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Minerals Down Under Flagship
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Working with industry and partners to help address Australia's key challenges and opportunities in the minerals domain.

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Scientists working on a machine Driving sustainability through systems innovation

Reducing environmental impact with innovative solutions.

Researchers with experiment Discovering Australia's mineral resources

Increasing prospectivity by working with minerals explorers and Governments.

 

Scientist in mine Transforming the future mine

Developing safe, geologically intelligent, automated mining and drilling systems.

Scientist looking at machine Securing the future of Australia's carbon steel materials industry

Sustaining the viability of the Australian carbon steel raw materials industry.

Scientist looking at machine. Creating wealth through advanced processing technologies

Improving the performance of mineral processing operations.

Two researchers discussing projects Transforming productivity through online analysis

Minerals, process and security on-line measurement opportunities.

Partnership Highlights

Photograph of mining drill, looking from the ground-level up through the centre of the structure.

Researchers from the Minerals Down Under National Research Flagship and five Australian universities have formed a collaboration cluster to address future sustainability issues facing the minerals industry in this country.

The planet is in our hands

The Western Australian Geothermal Centre of Excellence (WAGCOE) is underpinning research and technologies to advance towards sustainable, zero-emission, geothermal cities.

Digital image of oxide abundance based on hyperspectral airborne data, draped over digital elevation model. Includes iron oxide abundance (red) and kaolin abundance (orange) - based on hyperspectral drill core data.

The Minerals Down Under Flagship has partnered with government and industry to form a centre of excellence to develop three-dimensional (3D) mineral maps of the Australian continent.

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Index of Minerals Down Under Flagship related information:
  • MDU Frontiers logo

    CSIRO and CODES are hosting an inaugural five-day mineral systems forum for researchers and industry representatives in Yallingup, Western Australia from 8 to 13 May 2011.

  • Scientist using microscope.

    National Research Flagships offer full and top-up Flagship Postgraduate Scholarships to high quality students who wish to work on a Flagship research project.

  • A Rio Tinto iron ore shiploader in operation in the Pilbara.

    A teleoperated shiploader designed to remotely control the loading iron ore is being trialled by Rio Tinto at a port in the Pilbara.

  • A solvent extraction technology sponsor’s settling pond in Chile.

    Details of the benefits accruing to solvent extraction (SX) operators sponsoring a new three-year, $4 million, jointly-funded project designed to reduce the significant losses they suffer as a result of reagent loss, are provided in the June edition of CSIRO’s Process magazine.

Events

 
  • Iron Ore 2011: call for papers brochure.

    Jointly organised by The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and CSIRO, Iron Ore 2011 is the latest in a well-established international conference series. Those interested in presenting papers at Iron Ore 2011 are invited to submit abstracts now.

  • Photograph of a large open pit mine.

    The Minerals Down Under Flagship is working with industry and research partners in the Australian innovation system to help address Australia’s key national challenges and opportunities in the minerals domain. One area of focus for the Flagship’s research is discovering Australia’s mineral resources.

  • Graphic image of shiploader dome console.

    The Minerals Down Under Flagship is working with industry and partners in the Australian innovation system to help address Australia’s key national challenges and opportunities in the minerals domain. A focus area for the Flagship’s research is transforming the future mine.

  • CSIRO's Deborah Lau measures the colour of petroglyphs using a portable, hand-held spectrophotometer.

    In this vodcast, we follow a team of CSIRO scientists as they journey through the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia examining ancient Aboriginal rock art for any changes in colour, contrast or chemical composition possibly brought on from emissions from local industry. (7:01)

Contact

General Contact
Mr Bob Chamberlain
Marketing and Communication Manager
Minerals Down Under Flagship
Phone: 61 7 3327 4469 
Alt Phone: 61 4 1844 3083 
Fax: 61 7 3327 4455