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New resources leverage UQ’s Sustainable Minerals Institute

The Sustainable Minerals Institute’s Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) has added to its research capability with the announcement of a High Temperature Processing Research group.

The group is led by Dr Baojun Zhao, who joins from UQ’s School of Chemical Engineering, where he was Codelco-Fangyuan Research Fellow 2015 - 2019. 

Dr Zhao said the move to JKMRC would consolidate and. . .

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Streaming solution as COVID-19 keeps researchers off site

As COVID-19 restrictions put the brakes on site visits, mineral processing experts from Queensland's Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) took a new approach to keep key work on track.

Surveying, diagnosing and identifying improvement opportunities for processing plants generally requires teams to travel to a mine site, to undertake hands-on testing alongside mine personnel

However the challenges of COVID-19 prompted the JKMRC experts to develop a remote survey coordination method with Glencore in Mount Isa to facilitate the same procedures through the use of video streaming.

“Usually when one conducts a survey like this, it. . .

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