Ian Smith, Managing Director and CEO, Newcrest Mining, has been elected the new Chairman of the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA). The mid-term vacancy is due to the resignation of previous Chairman, Charlie Lenegan who moved offshore to take up a new position. The MCA represents Australia’s exploration, mining and minerals processing industry both nationally and […]

BioteQ Environmental Technologies, a leader in the treatment of metal and sulphate contaminated water, has been chosen as the winner of the 2008 Globe Foundation Award for Environmental Excellence in Export Performance. The coveted award was presented in Vancouver on March 13 as the culmination of GLOBE 2008, 
a bi-annual event that recognises excellence in the business of the environment. […]

The wild terrains of Canada’s remote provinces are to be targeted to help shape the future tenor, pace and direction of South Australia’s uranium exploration and development initiatives. Addressing the second and final day in Adelaide of the Paydirt 2008 Uranium Conference, PIRSA’s Geological Survey Manager, Mark McGeough, announced a proposed major collaborative program between the two […]

This international symposium on the processing of zinc ores and concentrates is organised by MEI. Primary zinc production is complicated by the fact that sphalerite is usually associated with economic amounts of lead and copper minerals, and is often contained in a gangue high in pyrite. The complex intergrowths often mean that very fine grinding […]

Growth in the minor metals market has been very significant over the last decade as Anthony Lipmann, Managing Director of Lipmann Walton and former Chairman of the Minor Metals Trade Association, explains: “To give an example, rhenium is one of the minor metals we first started trading in when I re-started the business in 1993, […]

Australia is yet to fully embrace its role as a potential major uranium supplier to the world, according to the sector’s major lobby group, the Australian Uranium Association. While the Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Paul Holloway, opened the Paydirt 2008 Uranium Conference expressing the expectation that South Australia [SA] would consolidate its mantle as Australia’s […]