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ARC Centre of Excellence: COEMinerals
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A world-leading Australian Research Centre that is improving mineral processing by reducing water and energy use, and recovering more minerals from waste.

ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals www.coeminerals.org.au
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#Gold is a hot #mineral & commodity, but it can be tricky to extract from ore 🧪
@coeminerals.bsky.social scientist A/Prof Boris Albijanic - @curtinuniversity.bsky.social Kalgoorlie - is researching new ways to recover gold and other minerals. Gain an insight into his work: tinyurl.com/593jkfkh
According to some, gold may on track to become Australia's second-largest export earner, but it can be very challenging to recover from ore. COEMinerals scientist, Associate Professor Boris Albijanic (pictured) who is based in COEMinerals' Curtin University node / Kalgoorlie campus (Western Australia) is working closely industry to research new ways to recover gold and other minerals. He provides a brief insight into his work and approach in this video - URL link is: https://youtu.be/aXmcCRWvDWs?si=CTdxwsog1nmhPO5R Learn more about COEMinerals' wide ranging work to improve mineral processing at: www.coeminerals.org.au
October 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Thanks to Envirostream for hosting @coeminerals.bsky.social researchers, who are exploring the potential of applying mineral-from-ore separation techniques to recover #graphite and valuable metals from recycled Lithium-ion batteries
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#circulareconomy #recycling #minerals
As pictured: COEMinerals Chief Investigator Professor George Franks, and researchers Dr John Lu and Dr Wei Sung (Will) Ng are applying froth flotation methods to separate out graphite from metal oxides in ‘black mass’ (a mixture that is produced when lithium-ion batteries are ‘shredded’ in readiness for recycling). Researchers recently visited Envirostream Australia Pty Ltd - an Australian battery recycling company / a subsidiary of Livium Ltd - which recycles retired Lithium-ion batteries (sourced from cars, powerwalls, power tools and more). Researchers toured facilities and presented a research update: thank you to Mark Griffiths for hosting!
September 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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The Hon Ms Sharon Claydon MP, Member for Newcastle, Deputy Speaker Chair Standing Committee on Procedure - Parliament of Australia - holds a copy of the @coeminerals.bsky.social '25 Annual Report alongside Centre CI Prof Chun-Xia Zhao.
Read about our work here www.coeminerals.org.au/about/annual...
September 2, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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🟡 How good is our bright yellow Annual Report cover?! 🟡

Prof Karen Hapgood (Centre Assoc. Investigator & Dep. VC Research Swinburne Uni of Tech) holds the printed version during catch up with @gingerjar.bsky.social in Melbourne.
www.coeminerals.org.au/about/annual...

#WomeninSTEM #STEM #GEDI 🧪👩‍🔬
Pictured: Professor Karen Hapgood is an Associate Investigator with COEMinerals and is the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research Swinburne University of Technology, Research, Melbourne, Australia. She is pictured holding a copy of COEMinerals' 2024 Annual Report (FY 2024). You can read this and other Centre Annual Reports here: https://www.coeminerals.org.au/about/annual-reports
August 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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@csiro.bsky.social's Research Director #MineralProcessing Andrew Jenkin recently delivered a guest lecture to our team as part of our Signature Series, providing insights into CSIRO's Mineral Resources Group program, projects & capabilities.
Watch this guest lecture here ➡️ tinyurl.com/ya4u34sr
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CSIRO's Andrew Jenkin is pictured - he was a guest lecturer on 30 July 2025 as part of the COEMinerals Signature lecture series.
August 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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@coeminerals.bsky.social shares a game-changing scientific breakthrough in the recovery of critical and rare earth minerals and metals. Hear Prof. Chun-Xia Zhao explain the peptide/mineral recovery innovation in this video👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1IJeF... 🧪👩‍🔬
More info at www.coeminerals.org.au
COEMinerals shared a game-changing scientific breakthrough in the recovery of critical and rare earth minerals and metals today. Led by Centre researcher Professor Chun-Xia Zhao (pictured alongside Dr Guangze (Daniel) Yang) from the University of Adelaide’s School of Chemical Engineering, the Centre's research team has applied learnings from multiple scientific disciplines to mimic how a cancer-targeting drug finds cancer cells – but in this case finding a one-in-a-billion peptide molecule targeting a given mineral or metal. This advancement has the potential to unlock the equivalent of a ‘DNA code’ for every mineral and metal on planet Earth and revolutionise mineral processing. It also heralds environmental benefits. See www.coeminerals.org.au for more info
August 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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おめでとう omedetō (congrats!) to our PhD Lequan Zeng on receiving the 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 at the Int. Conf on Discrete Element Methods (DEM10) in Japan👏

🫧Particle aggregation & aggregate-bubble interactions can significantly enhance the recovery of fine valuable #mineral particles in froth #flotation 🧪
July 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Research Alert
@coeminerals.bsky.social Director L/Prof Kevin Galvin is pictured with University of Melbourne members and novel technology: High Pressure Dewatering Rolls (HPDR) Mark-II, a new dewatering technology for mineral tailings

See latest research paper for insights: tinyurl.com/htedp6yu 🧪
Pictured: COEMinerals Centre Director Laureate Professor Kevin Galvin recently visited our University of Melbourne (UOM) node, spending time with members and learning more about a new technology under development - the 'HPDR Mk-II' The HPDR-II is a novel solid–liquid separation device designed to address the challenges of dewatering mineral tailings, particularly those with fine particles. A new research paper published this week overviews the design, proof of concept (phase 1) and safe and continuous steady state operation (phase 2) of the device: 'High pressure dewatering rolls Mark-II: A novel dewatering technology for mineral tailings': https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0892687525003802?via%3Dihub "Kevin’s visit gave us the opportunity to show off the novel High Pressure Dewatering Rolls (HPDR) technology (pictured), which is a continuous clothless filter that combines vacuum, compression and shear dewatering mechanisms. The dewatering rolls have been demonstrated to achieve comparable or better moisture reduction and throughput per unit filter area to conventional filter presses," Centre Chief Investigator Prof. Stickland shared.
June 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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It's Women in Engineering Day #INWED2025 and we're celebrating our members and others who are re-shaping the future of #Engineering
Messages heard at events today:
🏃Stay motivated - keep pushing on
🫵Believe it's possible
👏Be inspired by others
👩‍🔬Inspire the next generation of women in engineering
We have some of the most incredible Women in Engineering in our research team. Today, as it's World Women in Engineering Day, we join with others to celebrate them! COEMinerals PhD students had the task of taking photos at events today, and we share one of their team photos featuring multiple Chemical Engineering PhD students from the UNiversity of Newcastle. Event: A co-hosted a free event by HunterWiSE and Engineers Australia and Newcastle University Women in Engineering (NUWiE) showcasing the experiences of engineers Who attended? Joining the wider Engineering community were representatives of our Centre including multiple Centre Chief Investigators, Early Career Researchers, Higher Degree Researchers including multiple PhD students.
June 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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COEMinerals researcher Prof Erica Wanless has presented a Plenary Lecture at the 14th International Colloids Conference in Spain, featuring @coeminerals.bsky.social research. We love how she (literally) put our home base of Newcastle on the map as a world-leading colloids science👏
#WomeninSTEM 🧪👩‍🔬
Photo of COEMinerals Chief Investigator Prof. Erica Wanless presenting a Plenary Lecture at the 14th International Colloids Conference in San Sebastian, Spain this week, including insights from her ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals (COEMinerals) research to improve mineral processing. She (literally) put our University of Newcastle node 'on the map' (the screen shot behind Prof. Wanless is a map of Australia with NEWCASTLE in large letters).
June 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Centre Director L/Prof Kevin Galvin recently spent time with our #UQ based team, talking with our members about their research, novel technology, industry engagement and next steps. Thanks for the collaboration team 👏

@coeminerals.bsky.social extends across nine Australian universities 🧪
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling the Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals (COEMinerals) family extends across nine Australian universities, including The University of Queensland (UQ). As pictured: Centre Director Laureate Professor Kevin Galvin recently spent time with our UQ team, which is based across the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) and the St Lucia campus: sharing insights, talking with members about their research discoveries, novel technology development, industry engagement and the next steps to ensure Centre work is well placed to transform the minerals sector in Australia. UQ Node leader Dr Susana Brito e Abreu shared: "We enjoyed sharing the great work we are doing with Kevin, as well as the fruitful discussions."
June 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Two @coeminerals.bsky.social #mineralprocessing prototype & testing technologies are now located in the heart of WA's Goldfields region, at Curtin Uni's #Kalgoorlie Campus:
a 'Sink-Hole Fluidiser' & a 'REFLUX' fractionator testing device
Thanks researchers for the lab tour🧪
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COEMinerals researchers Assoc Professor Boris Albijanic & Dr Emmanuel Baawuah stand with the novel mineral processing technology the Sink-Hole Fluidiser in a lab at Curtin's Kalgoorlie campus: located in the heart of Western Australia's gold mining region COEMinerals researcher Assoc Professor Boris Albijanic holds a rock containing gold in a lab at Curtin University's Kalgoorlie campus: located in the heart of the gold mining region in WA
May 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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@coeminerals.bsky.social researchers from UQ and UniSA have been sharing how Australian research and newly invented technologies are improving #mineralprocessing at the 14th International #Comminution Symposium (#Communition25) in South Africa.
Well done team!
#WomeninSTEM #minerals #PhD
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Learn more about COEMinerals' work to improve mineral processing at www.coeminerals.org.au Some members of our team are pictured at #Comminution25, South Africa
April 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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🏆 Award-winning news
We were thrilled to see new Gyratory Roller Solutions #GRolls tech recognised as a #Top30 Australian Innovator & one of 8 SA innovators during the CORE Innovation Hub #Hot30 awards last night
COEMinerals researcher PhD Mark Drechsler is involved in its development - pictured 👏🧪
March 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Congrats to our Chief Investigator Prof Seher Ata and team on an AEA Ignite $ grant, building on @coeminerals.bsky.social research & helping to develop a unique #mineral separation tech using an acoustic #flotation cell with a focus on critical & strategic minerals
🎵 We like the sound of that!
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Pictured left to right: COEMinerals Chief Investigators (CI's) Prof Seher Ata (UNSW) and Dr Susana Brito e Abreu (UQ) who are both involved in this project. Dr Ata explains more about the project at: https://shorturl.at/AzKSJ Learn more about COEmierals work to improve minerals processing at www.coeminerals.org.au
March 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Great to celebrate #IWD with the #mining and #mineral community of the Hunter Valley in NSW.
Thanks AusIMM for gathering a great crowd.
Key Messages? Embrace differences. Create welcoming workplaces. Design inclusive experiences that attract and retain #womeninmining & #womeninengineering
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March 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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New @coeminerals.bsky.social Research paper with 2 x lead female authors (timely given it's #IWD tomorrow!)

Learn more & link to paper 'Benchmarking a Single-Stage REFLUX™ Flotation Cell Against a Multi-Stage Industrial Copper Concentrator and Lab-Scale Mechanical Cell':
tinyurl.com/yc77yt94 🧪👩‍🔬
Dr PeiPei Wang and Dr Sian Parkes - Research Paper lead authors - pictured at University of Newcastle labs
March 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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What better way to celebrate the #UNESCO World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development than by welcoming a new team member?!
We welcome #Engineer Harshi Rathnayaka (pictured with new Uni of Newcastle node colleagues) as a #PhD researcher 👩‍🔬🧪

#WED2025 #WorldEngineeringDay #mineralprocessing #STEM
March 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Behind the scenes
@monashuniversity.bsky.social node plays a central role in guiding the novel #chemistry enabling the replacement, regeneration & re-use of chemicals for #mineral separations and recovery at @coeminerals.bsky.social
Centre Director L/Prof Kevin Galvin recently visited the team 🧪👩‍🔬👨‍🔬
February 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Well done to Centre PhDs & other researchers participating in the 35th Australian Colloid and Surface Science Student Conference (#ACSSSC) representing multiple uni nodes👏

@coeminerals.bsky.social was 'Californium' sponsor of the event (noting #californium is more precious than platinum!)
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February 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Congratulations to two of our researchers, based at the University of Newcastle: Dr Subhasish Mitra & Phd Margaret Amosah
Both were Highly Commended for 'Excellence in Industry Collaboration' in the Newcastle Institute of Energy Resources (NIER) Research Collaboration Awards
#industrycollaboration
January 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM