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#Minerals and Mining

Artist's concept of asteroid mining

Space: the mining frontier

Alan Walsh and his atomic absorption spectroscopy equipment

Atomic absorption spectroscopy

Keith Leslie at work in electronics laboratory.

CSIRO Medals 2007 – Research achievement – Keith Leslie and the LANDTEM Team

Graphic simulation of mineral separation process within Gravity Thickener.

Parker Centre (2007)

John Shaw and fellow researchers

CSIRO Medals 2006 – Business Excellence Medal – John Shaw and the Intellection Team

Researchers with electron microscope.

CSIRO Medals 2005 – Research achievement – Fluid history analysis team

Large Gravity Thickener for mineral processing at mine site.

CSIRO Medals 2004 – Business Excellence Medal – Improving Thickener Technology Team

Lincoln Patterson giving presentation to the Petroleum Reservoir Characterisation Team.

CSIRO Medals 2004 – Research achievement – Petroleum Reservoir Characterisation Team

RV Franklin at sea

CSIRO Medals 2002 – Chairman’s Medal – Seabed Ore Systems Team

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