Extracting more value from mining
The mining industry is highly complex and energy intensive. It takes a major investment at every stage to obtain good value from the time and effort expended.
Our Institute for Mineral and Energy Resources (IMER) leads a consortium that examines the entire mining system, from identifying raw materials to taking the resulting product to market.
The Integrated Mining Consortium develops, trials and commercialises technologies and techniques that promise to improve the process of gaining value from mineral deposits.
The result will be to reduce waste and inefficiencies and increase profitability.
Modern resource challenges are interdisciplinary, requiring a crossover of technical skills and sharing of information.
One of the major challenges facing the mining industry is variability in the ore body.
Advanced sensor technology will pick up and communicate information about its characteristics, allowing early decisions to be made about the worth of proceeding with a particular deposit.
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