Welcome to the February09 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
There are now just less than nine days to go until the bid submission closing date of 20 March.
CSRP HQ are very busy finalising the submission, both the narrative and the economic impact template. This will all be reviewed with the CSRP Governing Board on 12 March and once finalised, will be sent to all CSRP2 participants. The support for the bid continues to be very strong in spite of the economic conditions; and we have sufficient resources to develop a strong research program in sustainable resource processing and to mount a compelling value proposition to the CRC program.
A reminder of the schedule going forward:
Thanks to all of you for supporting the bid for CSRP2. The scope of the bid is ambitious and exciting and I’m sure that everyone associated with it will have cause to feel proud to be apart of it. Good luck to all of us in the bid!
> Download the CSRP2 re-bid summary document (.pdf 101kb)
Fairbridge Village was the venue for the 4th Student-Industry-CRC Symposium from 8-13 February 2009 . Fairbridge is just north of Pinjarra , Western Australia, about 100 kilometres south of Perth. Once again, students presented their research, toured local industries, participated in workshops and discussions, as well as enjoying social events.
Some two dozen postgraduate students attended the Symposium. As several of the mining and energy sector CRCs have disbanded since the last Symposium, only CSRP and the Parker Centre for Integrated Hydrometallurgy Solutions were represented, along with some independent students. That did not seem to damper the enthusiasm of the two dozen postgraduate students who participated though. The level of student presentations was high and the industry tours and workshops offered provided a great deal of depth to the event. The usual round of social activities rounded out the week.
Thanks to students, staff and industry participants for another successful Symposium.
> Visit the Symposium website for a summary of the event.
On behalf of the University of Queensland's Sustainable Minerals Institute, the AusIMM and CSRP, we invite you to participate in the 2009 SDIMI Conference on Queensland's Gold Coast in July.
This is the first time that this conference has been held outside of Europe and presents a unique opportunity for Australian and international researchers and industry practitioners to engage in dialogue about the future of the minerals industry and its contribution to society.
The technical program on Day 3, Wednesday 8 July will include the CSRP/SDIMI “Sustainability Assessment Forum”. The objective of the forum is to present real life case studies on implementing sustainability initiatives, discuss the learnings from these and elicit potential methods for putting sustainability initiatives into practice. The forum will be lead by a panel of expert sustainability practitioners from industry and research.
> Download the registration brochure.
> Visit the conference website http://www.ausimm.com.au/sdimi2009/ for more information.
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 the paper and the reference for the publication. Listed below are publications received this month and a complete list can be found on the Publications section of the website.
> Email Lisa Laurie to obtain the most recent Request to Publish form, Standard Acknowledgement form or CSRP logo.
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