Grade Engineering™

Grade Engineering™ recognises that production is not the same as productivity, reconsidering the traditional view of mining and processing to identify opportunities to upgrade ore through the entire extraction process.

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CRC ORE Annual Report 2012

The CRC ORE Annual Report has been released and provides a succinct overview of the key events of the past financial year, our strategies going forward, and a look at the technologies transforming resource extraction and evaluation.

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Sustainable Minerals Institute

CRC ORE was developed from The University of Queensland's Sustainable Minerals Institute, the world’s leading research institute dedicated to finding knowledge-based solutions to the sustainability challenges of the minerals industry.

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Integrated Case Studies

CRC ORE has partnered with industry participants to prove the validity of new tools and methodologies in large scale site based case studies.

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Coarse Liberation Circuits

Research to profile the physical characteristics of an orebody to enable effective pre-concentration using size by size screening and sensor-based sorting, resulting in higher feed grades and decreased tonnage.

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Integrated Extraction Simulator

The Integrated Extraction Simulator (IES) supports scenario based decision making for mining operations by simulating, analysing and evaluating the performance of a mining value chain across a wide range of scenarios and levels of detail.

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Integrated Mine Planning & Evaluation

Creating innovative new methods for resource evaluation examining ore body scenarios and financial risk.

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Environmental Indicators

Environmental indices provide early predictive geometallurgical information on rock characteristics likely to impact on environmental management, resulting in more effective resource management and life of mine valuation.

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Transforming resource extraction and its evaluation.

Innovative techniques for increasing metal yield from ore bodies.

CRC ORE is harnessing opportunities through the whole mining process to separate gangue, upgrade ore, and evaluate the impact on resource economics.


Grade Engineering™	News	Integrated Case Studies
Grade Engineering™ recognises that production is not the same as productivity, reconsidering the traditional view of mining and processing to identify opportunities to upgrade ore through the entire extraction process. Focusing on maximising the amount of metal processed by removing waste as early as possible, Grade Engineering™ can transform the economics of large, low grade mining operations. Read more...	Challenges linked to a decline in productivity PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has released their annual Productivity Scorecard for the year 2011-2012, examining labour productivity across Australian industry and recognising growing challenges in the mining sector. Read more...	Site based case studies play a major role in validating CRC ORE research and putting new technologies in the hands of industry end-users. These studies enable researchers to dramatically demonstrate the impact new methods and technologies will have on mining, transforming the mineral industry's approach to evaluation and extraction of mineral deposits. Read more...