Minerals Centre gets $11.5 million grant
Working closely with WA’s mining industry, the Centre has excelled as a Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) and been rewarded for it.
In April the Centre won one of three CRC Association awards for technology transfer.
In the same month the Centre was told that its status and funding as a CRC were secure for another seven years with a $11.5 million grant from the Federal Government’s CRC program.
CRCs like the Parker Centre are designed to encourage collaboration between industry, educational institutions and government, to break new ground in research that is helpful to industry.
Murdoch Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) Professor Val Alder said the refunding demonstrated the Centre’s active involvement with the mining industry, which had provided substantial financial commitment.
Mining companies involved include: Acacia Resources Ltd (Melbourne); Alcoa of Australia (Perth); Comalco (Brisbane); Normandy Mining (Adelaide); Pasminco (Melbourne); Queensland Alumina Limited; Gladstone Resolute Ltd (Perth); Rio Tinto (Melbourne); Western Mining Corporation (Perth) and Worsley Alumina Limited (Collie).
The Australian Mineral Industries Research Association (AMIRA, based in Melbourne) continues its original membership of the Centre providing advice and coordinating major multi-client funded projects.
The Centre draws its research expertise from the combined strengths of the Division of Science at Murdoch University, CSIRO’s Division of Minerals, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Curtin University of Technology.
The University of Queensland also will be adding its mineral research capabilities to the resources available to the Centre’s clients.
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