News

CET in partnership with the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa has won a major Federal Government Australia Award for the provision of a yearly eight-week program in Mineral and Energy Economics over the period 2018 – 2022.

The upcoming engagement, dubbed Data Fusion Projects, will see a $3.6 million investment to continue the development of 3D geological modelling and image analysis. The UWA team will be led by Professor Holden and Dr Daniel Wedge, while Rio Tinto’s team will be led by Superintendent Geologist Mr Thomas Green.

CET has completed another successful Members’ Day held at the state of the art Business School Building at UWA Crawley Campus. The day provided a great opportunity for networking and keeping abreast of the exciting research currently happening at the Centre.

Dr Tony Kemp has been awarded the DA Brown Medal by the Research School of Earth Sciences, ANU, for contributions to geology.

Special study commissioned by the Australian government and industry by MinEx Consulting, October 2017.

The monograph consists of over 170 papers, containing detailed descriptions of significant ore fields and individuals mines.

Australia is now through its expansion phase and looking at years of price stability. Bloomberg by Allan Trench Since the start of the 21st century large mineral markets have been characterised by two constants.

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Steve Rowins has accepted the position of Prof. of Mineral Geoscience & CET Director. Steve will commence his new position on 1 March 2018. .