Welcome to the June edition of the CSRP Newsletter. If you wish to have anything included in the newsletter, please email Lisa Laurie at lisa.laurie@csrp.com.au
CSRP took another step along the path to a low carbon future with the first geopolymer concrete path in Australia laid at the Curtin University of Technology campus in Bentley (Perth) WA. Geopolymer concrete has a number of desirable properties over ordinary Portland cement based concretes not the least of which is that it produces 80% less Greenhouse Gases. The demonstration path is a result of collaboration between many organisations including CSRP, Rocla, Blue Circle Cement, Golden Bay Cement, Boral, CSIRO, Curtin and the Geopolymer Alliance.
> download the media release
Stevan Green attended the second Korea-Australia Symposium on the “technology for sustainable development of mineral and energy resources”, which was hosted by CSIRO in Melbourne on Wednesday 04 June. Presentations were given by CSRP staff members Jim Avraamides, Warren Bruckard and Michael Somerville, as well as members from the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM). CSRP hopes to continue fostering relations with KIGAM and is looking forward to signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute later in the year.
The University of Melbourne and CSRP have signed a student project agreement allowing two PhD students to work with the CSRP geopolymer team and the Geopolymer Alliance. CSRP looks forward to strengthening relations with the University and its students.
“Mineral to Metal in One Lesson” - a 90 minute professional development course for science teachers
Thursday 17 July 2008 @ Spinifex College, Mount Isa, QLD
Wednesday 30 July 2008 @ St Brigid’s College, Horsham, VIC
“The Chemistry and Physics of Extractive Metallurgy” - an intensive one-day professional development course for science teachers
Friday 10 October 2008 @ Murdoch University, Perth, WA
> visit the Teacher PD section of the website to download the flyers
CSRP and Murdoch Extractive Metallurgy staff will host some 30 All Saints College (Bull Creek, WA) students for a “Science Extension” laboratory short course during their winter term holiday. The full-day short course will have students work in 3 hands-on laboratory sessions including mineral processing (Andrew Jones), hydrometallurgy (Graeme Thompson) and pyrometallurgy (Aleks Nikoloski and Ken Seymour). A talk giving an overview of the industry will be presented by Dan Churach.
The 4th Student Symposium is tentatively scheduled for Western Australia from Sunday afternoon 08 February 2009 through Friday mid-day 13 February 2009 . The venue will be Fairbridge Village in Pinjarra , WA . The week will once again include student presentations of their research, professional development workshops, industry tours and social events (including the 4th Quiz Night Challenge).
> Watch this space for further updates.
If you are aware of any upcoming events that would be of interest to other CSRP members, please email the details to Lisa Laurie. Listed below are some of the upcoming events and a complete list can be found in the Events section of the website.
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), please send Lisa Laurie 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 Publications section of the website.
> Request to Publish and Standard Acknowledgement forms are located on Centric.
Publications
Media Releases