Welcome to the August 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
We welcome GHD Pty Ltd as a new participant in CSRP, with the formal signing ceremony taking place on 30th August at CSRP HQ. We also look forward to the formal signing of two other new participants, Anglo Platinum and Murdoch University.
The industry survey for the DEST Third Year review has now been completed. The next step in the Review process will be the review by the Independent Panel. A tentative schedule for the Independent Panel’s review has been set. Below is the summary as it currently stands with full details available on Centric.
23rd October: CSRP HQ, Education, Program 4 (geopolymers, zero waste/red sand)
(Stevan Green and Mark Neville)
24th October: Programs 1 and 3
(David Brereton and Dick van Beers)
25th October: Programs 2 and 3 (J-P Franzidis and David Brereton)
26th October: Program 2 (Minor Elements), Program 4 (Biomass and Zero Waste) (Sharif Jahanshahi)
27th October: Industry Engagement
Dr Bruce Kelley, Rio Tinto, has joined the Industry Steering Committee as the new Program 1 Champion, while Dr Jim Avraamides will be taking on the role of RLT Convenor. We welcome Bruce and Jim to their new roles with CSRP.
This year’s Participants Forum will be held on 2nd November in Melbourne. It will be preceded by a Minerals Sector Sustainability Roundtable. Formal notices of these two events will be sent shortly.
A half-day roundtable will be hosted by CSRP for the Minerals Sector to discuss and share topics and issues on sustainability. Keynote speakers will present on the most challenging aspects facing industry as we come to terms with sustainability – what it is and how we might achieve it. Highlights of CSRP’s successes will be presented along with learnings from industry and elsewhere. The Roundtable will be followed by a networking lunch and then by CSRP’s Participants’ Forum (which is open to CSRP members only).
The purpose of the Participant’s Forum is to provide a forum for consultation among the CSRP Participants and is chaired by the ISC Chairman, Philip Bangerter. An update of CSRP’s activities will be given followed by an opportunity for participants to present their views and open discussion. For more details of these events, please contact Lisa Laurie on 08 6436 8702 or lisa.laurie@csrp.com.au
CSRP students in Perth attended two professional development courses over the past several weeks:
Financial Management and Project Evaluation in the Mining and Minerals Industry: This professional development session was held from 10th-14th July. Dr Pietro Guj, Associate Professor in Mineral Economics at Curtin University, was the main presenter of this course to Murdoch Extractive Metallurgy and CSRP students.
Fundamentals of Hydrometallurgy and Advanced Hydrometallurgy courses were offered 8th-11th August at Murdoch University in Perth. Professor Mike Nicol ran both offerings which were open to CSRP students.
One of our MSc students attended both courses.
Dr Nimal Subasinghe, Senior Lecturer in Extractive Metallurgy at Murdoch University offered a short course entitled “Plant Performance Evaluation”. The two-day offering was co-sponsored by CSRP and Murdoch and was presented BHP-Billiton Iron Ore Operations, Newman, WA.
Two more teacher professional development workshops were run during the winter. Both the “Chemistry and Physics of Extractive Metallurgy” and the “Advanced Metallurgy” one-day courses were held at Murdoch University with Dr Nick Welham, Ken Seymour and Dan Churach as the main presenters.
Wes Nichols, Senior Geologist at Anglo Coal’s Callide Mine in Queensland presented a talk entitled “The Concept of the Coal Chain” at Murdoch University on 13th July. School teachers, academics and other interested participants attended.
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.