Welcome to the June 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
Anglo Platinum and Murdoch University have joined CSRP as Supporting Participants. Anglo Platinum will primarily be involved with Program 2 and Murdoch with our Education Program. We welcome them and look forward to successful collaboration on many more projects.
The Independent Review Panel has been appointed and consists of Prof Cyril O’Connor (University of Cape Town), Dr Jim May (ex-CEO of AMIRA, now retired) and Prof John Burgess (Scena Consulting). They will be visiting CSRP members in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth to conduct the interviews during the week beginning the 23rd October 2006.
The 2006 Student-CRC-Industry Symposium was held on the 18th-23rd June 2006 at the Central Queensland University, Marina Campus in Gladstone. The event was again very successful, with approximately 25 students and many representatives attending from the local industry.
Industry representatives attended from Queensland Alumina, Comalco, Rio Tinto, Anglo Coal, Queensland Energy Resources, Central Queensland Port Authority, Hatch, Gladstone Power Station, Gladstone Economic & Industry Development Board and the Gladstone Shire Council. Special thanks to The Central Queensland Port Authority, Gladstone Power Station, Comalco and the Boyne Aluminium smelter for tours of their facilities.
The student presentations were excellent and congratulations go to Nathan Reid (CRC LEME) for the Best Student Presentation and Luke McArthur (PELM) as runner up. Third place was shared by Jacqueline Medvecka (CSRP), Elizabeth Hodge (CCSD) and Pushan Shah (CCSD). Special mentions also go to Peeripong Jitsangian (CSRP) for an excellent first presentation in English; and to Ross Williams (CSRP) for the best Honours presentation.
More details and photos of the event will be posted to the CSRP website shortly.
A Financial Management & Project Evaluation in the Mining and Minerals Industry course is being held on 10th-14th July 2006 at Murdoch University, Perth. More details are available in the Personal & Professional Development section of our website.
Two Teacher Professional Development courses are being held at Murdoch University in Perth. If you would like more information or to attend, please contact Dr Dan Churach on 08 6436 8735 or dan.churach@csrp.com.au
Further information can be found at the Teacher Professional Development section of our website.
A Gladstone community lecture entitled "Aluminium through the Looking Glass - History, Production, Properties and Uses" was presented on Friday evening 16th June 2006 by Dr Nick Welham, Senior MTEC Lecturer at Murdoch University. The talk was sponsored in conjunction with GAMSET, CSRP and QAL and was aimed at making the metallurgy of alumina and aluminium come alive for the general public.
The evening offered an exciting insight to the science, technology and historical context of one of Australia’s most important metals. Aluminium may be the third most common element in the earth’s crust but it is far from ordinary. Dr Welham described how its properties make it extraordinary, why mercury is not permitted on aircraft and why aluminium was once considered a precious metal with 30 grams costing twice the daily wages of a common worker.
The lecture was held at Gladstone State High School and was attended by GAMSET teachers, students and the public at large.
Information on future community lectures will be posted on the Community Lecture section of our website.
We have several new 4th year Engineering students. Damien Bryant is completing his Extractive Metallurgy degree at Murdoch University under the supervision of Dr Nimal Subasinghe. Clarissa Bloomfield, Michael Down, Mick Lozyk, Prinita Ruban, Angela Sankey, Shah Rooshabh and Andrew Shapland are all completing their 4th Year engineering projects at Curtin University under the supervision of Prof Norm Stockton (Curtin) and Dr Evan Jamieson (Alcoa). Welcome all.
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.
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.