The purpose of the Technical Advisory Panel Working Group (TAPWG) is to:
CSRP ceased operations on 31 October 2010. The members of the Technical Advisory Panel Working Group were:
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Dr Jim Avraamides, Department of Commerce WA e. j.avraamides@murdoch.edu.au After obtaining a PhD in chemistry in 1972 from the ANU, Dr Jim Avraamides spent 3 years in industry with Johnson-Matthey (UK) working on precious metal recovery and refining, and 6 years at Murdoch University before joining the WA Department of Mines (now DOIR, the Department of Industry and Resources) in 1985. From 1988 to 1997 he was Chief of the Department’s Mineral Processing Laboratory. Jim’s current research interest is in gold hydrometallurgy including carbon-in-pulp technology (particularly carbon reactivation) and treatment of refractory gold ores. He has been a member of various AMIRA, MERIWA and other government funded gold research projects in WA since 1981 and has commercialised widely accepted methods for activated carbon testing and involved in general process troubleshooting to the gold industry. He has been a member of the Parker CRC for Integrated Hydrometallurgy Solutions since its establishment in 1992 and is now the Team Leader for the Incubator Program and a member of the Education and Training Committee for CSRP. |
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Mr Philip Bangeter, Hatch Associates Philip Bangerter is currently Global Director - Sustainability for Hatch, based in
Brisbane. He leads a small but global practice in sustainability, a group tasked
with bringing sustainability principles to Hatch design and project management Philip graduated from the University of Otago’s School of Mines in 1981, with an honours degree in mineral processing. He was a metallurgist from 1982-1986 in a tin and mineral sands operation, then embarked on a commercialisation career in 1987. In 1996 he joined a leading mining company to head a team of dedicated professionals responsible for worldwide sales & marketing, technology development and manufacturing of their internally developed processing technologies. Joining Hatch in 2001, he became Director Australasia - Technologies, later that year. Since July 2002, Philip has been responsible for the activities of the Sustainability Community of Practice in Australia, a multi-disciplinary, multi-business unit group of practitioners concerned with the advancement of sustainability practices within Hatch and the promotion of sustainability services to Hatch’s clients. The most important issue for Philip personally is the slow uptake of sustainability into engineering design and project management. This continues to be a strong personal driver and is the cornerstone of his involvement in CSRP. |
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Professor David Brereton, University of Queensland David Brereton holds a BA(Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University. Prior to taking up his current position, David was Director of Research at the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission for eight years. He has also taught Legal Studies at La Trobe University and Politics at the University of Melbourne and Monash University, and acted as a Principal Consultant to the Law Reform Commission of Victoria. The focus of David's work has been on using social science research to improve policy and practice in the public and private sectors. His current areas of interest include: the implementation of sustainable development principles in the mining industry; regulatory policy and practice relating to the industry; and the business case for sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. |
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Warren Bruckard has 25 years experience in mineral processing both at plant operational level and in research and development. Warren completed an honours degree in science at Melbourne University, Australia, in 1982, majoring in metallurgy. After graduating he worked for 3 years with Western Mining Corporation at Central Norseman Gold Corporation and Kambalda Nickel Operations, as a project and gold plant metallurgist. Warren joined CSIRO Minerals in 1986 and has worked on a variety of hydrometallurgical research projects since then including acid pressure leaching of mixed sulfide products, treatment of refractory gold ores, fundamental studies on the Becher aeration process, and development of the SREP process for removing radioactive impurities from mineral sands products. In 1997 Warren joined the Flotation Group at CSIRO Minerals as a Project Manager, and until 2002 worked in this capacity on a number of sponsored projects for the Australian and overseas flotation industry in both the sulfide and non-sulfide area. In the past few years Warren joined the High Temperature processing Program at the Division to use his mineral processing skills to develop processes to recover valuables from various metallurgical waste streams. Warren was recently appointed the Division’s Science Leader in Mineral Processing. Warren is the author of over 40 published papers and 140 technical reports. |
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Sharif Jahanshahi has over 25 years of experience in research, consulting and training of postgraduates in ferrous and base metal pyrometallurgy and manages the pyrometallurgy research program at CSIRO Minerals. He has established of one of the world’s strongest high temperature processing research groups servicing minerals processing & metal producing industries. His research interests include application of fundamental understanding of high temperature systems to metallurgical processes and in treatment of wastes, by-products and safe disposal of toxic elements. His industrial experience includes s everal years at BHP Central Research Laboratories, with responsibility for leading their Steelmaking Research Group and contributing towards a number of industrial R&D projects aimed at incremental process improvements, development of new intensive smelting processes and breakthrough technologies such as; Project M of BHP Steel, smelting of spent pot lining at Alcoa and single stage converting of copper mattes. Sharif has published over 100 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings on aspects of physico-chemical properties of melts, thermodynamic modeling and process chemistry of high temperature processes. Sharif has was a member of international working group on Non-Ferrous Metals and their Contribution to Sustainable Development (2001-2003), Research Manager (1996-2000) GK Williams CRC for Extractive Metallurgy and is a member of international advisory board of the Molten Slags and Fluxes international conference series (1993-present). |
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Dr Evan Jamieson, Alcoa World Alumina Evan Jamieson holds a BAppSci with P.Grad in Chemistry from Curtin University and a PhD in Hydrometallurgy from Murdoch University. He also holds qualifications in Project and Business Management. Evan has worked in a wide range of mineral industries ranging from brick production to advanced battery design and has spent the past 12 years in the alumina industry at Alcoa World Alumina's Technology Delivery Group. Evan's speciality is in iron oxide hydrometallurgy and having spent the past 4 years investigating bauxite residue reuse opportunities, has made him well suited to his current role as Bauxite Residue Program Leader for CSRP. Evan has a keen interest in sustainable development and education. He has been an adjunct or industry supervisor to 3 PhD, 4 Masters and countless undergraduate and honours student projects from Curtin University and is looking forward to continuing that association. |
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Professor Malcolm Powell, University of Queensland Prof Malcolm Powell trained in Physics then moved into mineral processing at Mintek, studying the motion of grinding media in mills and the influence of liner design for his PhD. In 1997 he formed the comminution group in the Centre for Mineral Processing at the University of Cape Town . In January 2007 he joined the JK Mineral Research Centre of the University of Queensland to take up the Chair in Sustainable Comminution, funded by industry and CSRP. He specialises in liner design, charge motion and DEM modelling, SAG mill modelling, and classification, with a strong link into applying his knowledge in extensive site work and consulting to industry. He aims to link fundamental research into applied outputs through the development of practical and robust process models. |
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Professor Arie van Riessen, Curtin University of Technology Prof Arie van Riessen is currently the Geopolymer Program Leader for CSRP and Director of the Centre for Materials Research at Curtin University. For the last three years Arie has been Dean of Research and Development for the Division of Engineering, Science and Computing. He is also a member of the Australian Synchrotron Research Program Advisory Board. Arie manages the Electron Microscopy and x-ray laboratories at Curtin University and was awarded ARC grants for a focussed ion beam scanning electron microscope and an x-ray reflectometer. Arie is Deputy Director of the Nanoscale Characterisation Centre. Arie's expertise is in materials characterisation using electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction and has used these techniques to research geopolymers for several years. |
