CSRP Newsletter, March 2006
Welcome to the March 2006 edition of the CSRP Newsletter. If you wish to have anything included in the newsletter, please e-mail Kelly Dwyer at kelly.dwyer@csrp.com.au
Water Workshop
A Water Workshop is being held as part of the Water Issues Paper on the 4th and 5th April 2006 at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. The focus of the workshop is to identify the big issues in managing water resources in the minerals industry.
For details please contact Dr Clair Cote on 07 3346 4012 or c.cote@smi.uq.edu.au.
Synergies Database
A new searchable Global Synergies Database has been placed on the CSRP website. The purpose of the database is to provide a publicly available database of synergy examples from around the world, which can be easily searched and accessed to aid in the development of synergies worldwide.
Student-Industry-CRC Symposium
The 2006 Student-Industry-CRC Symposium is being held from 18th-23rd June 2006 at the Central Queensland University (Marina Campus) in Gladstone. Further updates and information on the symposium will follow in future newsletters.
New Student
Welcome to Maurice Mathews who is CSRP's latest student. Maurice is undertaking his Postgraduate Diploma in "Community and Regulatory Factors Affecting Opportunities for Industrial By-Product Synergy" and will be supervised by Glen Corder (University of Queensland).
Conferences
- AusIMM Symposium "Disposal of Mining Waste, an Increasingly Significant Activity", Sydney, Australia, 29th March 2006
The conference is a one day event at the Rydges hotel in Sydney with 12 papers presented, focusing on the conversion of waste into assets in hard and soft rock applications i.e. paste fill, codisposal of coal fines. Please see web site for information: http://www.sydneyausimm.com.au/docs/downloads/Symposium%20Brochure.pdf
- Australian X-ray Analytical Association (AXAA) National Seminar Series 2006 “Use of Synchrotron Radiation to Extend the Power of Laboratory XRD (powder) and XRF in Mining and Mineral Processing.”
Perth, Australia, 3rd April 2006
Melbourne, Australia, 5th April 2006
Sydney, Australia, 7th April 2006
Brisbane, Australia, 10th April 2006
Contact Prof Brian O’Connor for details at b.oconnor@curtin.edu.au or phone 08 9291 7067
- Green Processing 2006, Newcastle, Australia, 5th-6th June 2006
Details are available at www.ausimm.com
- Sustainable Development Conference 2006 "Operating for Enduring Value", Perth, Western Australia, 23rd-27th October 2006
- Water In Mining 2006 "Multiple Values of Water", Brisbane, Australia, 14th-16th November 2006
Call for papers information and other details are available at www.ausimm.com
- World Conference on Science and Technology Education, Perth, Australia, 8th-12th July 2007
Call for papers information and other details are available at www.worldste2007.asn.au
If you are aware of any upcoming conferences that would be of interest to other CSRP members, please e-mail the details to Kelly Dwyer. Links to these conferences (where available) will be published in the newsletter each month.
New Publications
It would be wonderful to keep our publications lists up to date. If you have anything that has been published as part of CSRP (including conference presentations), could you please send Kelly Dwyer a copy of or the reference for the publication?
Listed below are publications received this month
and a complete list can be found in the 2006 Publications section.
- Churach, D and Rickards, T (2006) “Motivational Drivers Affecting Career Choices in the Resource Sector: The Science Career Inventory (SCI)” in the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Science, Mathematics & Technology Education, Victoria, Canada, Ed. D Fisher, D Zandvliet, I Gaynor and R Koul, Key Centre for School Science and Mathematics, Curtin University of Technology
- Churach, D (2006) “Teacher Professional Development as the Key to a Sustainable Workforce in the Mineral Resource Sector” in the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Science, Mathematics & Technology Education, Victoria, Canada, Ed. D Fisher, D Zandvliet, I Gaynor and R Koul, Key Centre for School Science and Mathematics, Curtin University of Technology
- Corder, G (2005) “Measurement of Control Aspects of Waste and By-Product Re-use in the Gladstone Region”, IICA Environmental Monitoring Symposium, Gladstone, Australia, 9th March 2006
- Jamieson, E, Jones, A, Cooling, D and Stockton, N (2006) “Magnetic Separation of Red Sand to Produce Value”, 1st International Magnetic & Electrical Separation Symposium, Perth, Australia, 12th March 2006
- Stockton, N (2006) “A Compendium of Research on Red Mud Processing in 2005”, Curtin University Publication (Confidential), 7th March 2006
