#Minerals and Mining

Artist's concept of asteroid mining

Space: the mining frontier

CSIRO is developing fully autonomous large scale surface and underground mining equipment that has the potential to eventually be used […]

Alan Walsh and his atomic absorption spectroscopy equipment

Atomic absorption spectroscopy

The concept of atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) came to CSIRO scientist Alan Walsh in a flash of inspiration as he […]

Keith Leslie at work in electronics laboratory.

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

Keith Leslie and The LANDTEM Team (CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering). For a significant world’s first scientific and technical outcome in the development of the LANDTEM system for minerals exploration based on High Temperature Superconducting devices known as SQUIDs.

Graphic simulation of mineral separation process within Gravity Thickener.

Parker Centre (2007)

Thickener technology for mineral processing.

John Shaw and fellow researchers

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

John Shaw and colleagues (CSIRO Minerals, CSIRO Corporate Commercialisation team and Intellection Pty LTd). For successfully transforming an innovative technical concept – Quantitative Evaluation of Minerals using Scanning Electron Microscopy (QEM*SEM) – into a vibrant, well capitalized, and rapidly expanding ‘born global’ company: Intellection Pty Ltd.

Researchers with electron microscope.

CSIRO Medals 2005 – Research achievement – Fluid history analysis team

Peter Eadington and the Fluid History Analysis Team (CSIRO Petroleum Resources). For development of an innovative suite of techniques that reveal the step-wise fill history of petroleum reservoirs in previously unseen detail.

Large Gravity Thickener for mineral processing at mine site.

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

John Farrow and colleagues (CSIRO Minerals). For the processes they have used to ensure research outcomes were converted into substantial […]

Lincoln Patterson giving presentation to the Petroleum Reservoir Characterisation Team.

CSIRO Medals 2004 – Research achievement – Petroleum Reservoir Characterisation Team

Lincoln Patterson and the Reservoir Characterisation Team (CSIRO Petroleum). For developing and applying new methods to assess reservoirs in deep sedimentary formations.

RV Franklin at sea

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

Ray Binns and colleagues (CSIRO Exploration and Mining). For their world leadership in the discovery and scientific investigation of active ore-forming systems on the ocean floor of the southwest Pacific.