Mr Jonathan Law: Director, Minerals Down Under Flagship

Mr Jonathan Law leads CSIRO's minerals research and works with industry to address Australia's challenges in the minerals domain.

Dr Stephen Giugni: Deputy Director, Minerals Down Under Flagship

Dr Stephen Giugni is leading research to address Australia's challenges in the minerals domain.

Dr Ian Dover: Director of Business Development and Commercialisation, Minerals Down Under Flagship

Dr Ian Dover specialises in value chain improvement in the minerals domain.

Anna Littleboy: Theme Leader, Australia's mineral futures

Anna Littleboy has led CSIRO’s research into the impacts of sustainable development on the resources industry for over five years.

Dr Dave Robinson: Theme Leader, Advanced processing technologies

Dr Dave Robinson leads research into precious and base metals hydrometallurgy. This research is helping to shape Australia’s mineral processing industry.

Dr Nick Cutmore: Theme Leader, Intelligent mining and online analysis

Dr Nick Cutmore has around 25 years experience working with online analysis of materials.

Dr Sharif Jahanshahi: leading research in sustainable mineral processing

Dr Sharif Jahanshahi and his team are developing ways to reduce emissions and waste streams generated during mineral processing while also improving the efficiency of the processes being used. 

Dr Rob Hough: Theme Leader, Discovering Australia's mineral resources

Dr Rob Hough is a geologist and mineralogist who has studied the formation of natural gold nuggets to understand how gold deposits form.

Dr Neal Wai Poi: Director, CSIRO Chile Centre of Excellence

Dr Neal Wai Poi has experience in technical project management in research and industry, in commercial management of companies and strategic management at board level.

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Minerals Down Under Flagship locations

We conduct minerals research at eight main sites across Australia.

CSIRO Chile Centre of Excellence

Working with Chile to solve our common challenges in the minerals sector.

Deep Exploration Technologies CRC

The Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre delivers research into more successful, cheaper and safer ways to drill, analyse and target deep mineral deposits.

Continent-scale mineral maps

A CSIRO-led collaboration has created the world’s first continental-scale mineral map derived from satellite imagery, enabling mining companies to increase exploration efficiency and success in Australia.

Award winning ore sorting solutions

We have developed a large-scale sensor that uses magnetic resonance to rapidly measure mineral grade of selected ore minerals.

Bauxite and alumina processing

We are working with the alumina industry to develop smarter processing techniques for lower-grade, complex ores.

Designer charcoal for steelmaking

Novel technologies to make designer charcoal could set the steel industry on a new, low emissions path.

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.

WA Centre of Excellence in 3D Mineral Mapping

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

Breakthrough technology for primary aluminium

Supporting the aluminium industry to remain globally competitive by developing new energy saving technologies.