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Minerals Down Under Flagship

Working with industry and partners to help address Australia's key challenges and opportunities in the minerals domain.
About the Flagship

How we structure our research

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Driving sustainability through systems innovation

Reducing environmental impact with innovative solutions

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Growing Australia's light metal industry

Enhancing the global competitiveness of our light metals industry

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Discovering Australia's mineral resources

Increasing prospectivity by working with minerals explorers and Governments

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Transforming the future mine

Developing safe, geologically intelligent, automated mining and drilling systems

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Securing the future of Australia's carbon steel materials industry

Sustaining the viability of the Australian carbon steel raw materials industry

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Creating wealth through advanced processing technologies

Improving the performance of mineral processing operations

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Transforming productivity through online analysis

Minerals, process and security on-line measurement opportunities

Partnership Highlights

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Mineral Futures Collaboration Cluster

Researchers from the Minerals Down Under National Research Flagship and five Australian universities have formed a collaboration cluster to address future sustainability issues facing the minerals industry in this country.

The planet is in our hands
Western Australian Geothermal Centre of Excellence

The Western Australian Geothermal Centre of Excellence (WAGCOE) is underpinning research and technologies to advance towards sustainable, zero-emission, geothermal cities.

Digital image of oxide abundance based on hyperspectral airborne data, draped over digital elevation model. Includes iron oxide abundance (red) and kaolin abundance (orange) - based on hyperspectral drill core data.
Centre of Excellence for 3D Mineral Mapping

The Minerals Down Under Flagship has partnered with government and industry to form a centre of excellence to develop three-dimensional (3D) mineral maps of the Australian continent.

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Resources

Interviews with Minerals Down Under scientists broadcast through the National Indigenous Radio Services [external link]

Australian Mining Prospect Awards November 2009 keynote address - Dr Peter Lilly  [external link]

Minerals Down Under multimedia

Minerals Down Under media releases

Our vision for the Australian mineral resources sector

Show Minerals Down Under Flagship Index

Resourceful magazine

CSIRO Chile Centre of Excellence

Contact Information

Mr Bob Chamberlain

Marketing & Communication Manager

Phone: 61 7 3327 4469

Alt Phone: 61 4 1844 3083

Email: Bob.Chamberlain@csiro.au

Latest Newsletter

Minerals Down Under September 2011

Related Links

CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering

CSIRO Process Science and Engineering

Geoscience Australia [external link]

The Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre [external link]

Minerals Council of Australia [external link]

The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies [external link]

AustMine [external link]

AusIMM [external link]

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia [external link]

Queensland Resources Council [external link]

Explore CSIRO

Community

CSIRO aims to establish and build relationships with members of the community. We welcome people of all ages to come and explore our facilities, holiday programs and public events.

Contact

Phone:

1300 363 400

Email:

enquiries@csiro.au

More contact options

About CSIRO

CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.

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