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We invite you to take a look at the Centre's most recent Annual Report, which captures research and innovation highlights, industry collaboration and many other milestone moments involving our Centre in 2024:

www.coeminerals.org.au/about/annual... (➡️ Choose 2024 Annual Report)

#mineralprocessing
June 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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6 students from Chinese university drown in mine processing tank in Inner Mongolia

#MineralProcessing #Safety

The students, reported to be in their third year and majoring in mineral processing engineering, were on an excursion to Wunugetushan mine

China
www.scmp.com/news/china/a...
6 students from Chinese university drown in mine processing tank
The students, reported to be in their third year and majoring in mineral processing engineering, were on an excursion to Wunugetushan mine.
www.scmp.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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The U.S. Senate is pushing for groundbreaking advancements in energy production, including innovative oil recovery techniques and local processing of critical minerals, to secure a sustainable future.

Learn more here

#US #CitizenPortal #MineralProcessing #NorthDakotaEnergy #EnergyIndependence
Energy Department focuses on enhanced oil recovery and critical minerals in North Dakota
Secretary discusses boosting domestic oil extraction and mining critical minerals in North Dakota.
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June 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Canadian North Resources (#TSXV: $CNRI.V | #OTCQX: $CNRSF | #FSX: #EO0) launches a new metallurgical program at Ferguson Lake.

Learn about the program, the #bioleaching success, & cost-effective #mineralprocessing on this #StocksToWatch interview: youtu.be/HLcH1aRkQLA?...
Canadian North Resources Expands Metallurgical Programs at Ferguson Lake
YouTube video by Stocks To Watch
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March 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
coeminerals.bsky.social
Lots of long weekend reading in this!
Our Centre 2024 Annual Report captures the milestones of a great big, busy year for science and education in #mineralprocessing innovation.
www.coeminerals.org.au/about/annual-reports
(Choose 'Annual Report 2024' / Open in acrobat for best reading experience)
Annual Reports
www.coeminerals.org.au
June 6, 2025 at 12:08 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🧪
www.coeminerals.org.au
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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@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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Research Alert
Congratulating our multiple @coeminerals.bsky.social authors on this new published paper: Dynamics of gas dispersion in a rising bubble plume in presence of surfactant
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#welovebubbles #mineralprocessing #AustralianScience
Dynamics of gas dispersion in a rising bubble plume in presence of surfactant
Understanding dispersion behaviour of bubbles emitting from a sparger is a critical element of mineral flotation process. This aspect was investigated…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 5, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Congrats @coeminerals.bsky.social Director Laureate Professor Kevin Galvin, Uni of Newcastle, on receiving a $1.5M Australian Economic Accelerator (AEA) Innovation grant to boost development of world-leading #mineralprocessing technology👏🧪
Learn more at: tinyurl.com/bmfpfud4

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Centre Director Laureate Professor Kevin Galvin - University of Newcastle - receives AUD$1.5m AEA Innovation grant to boost world-leading mineral processing technology
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July 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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A case study featuring #mineralprocessing #technology #innovation by @coeminerals.bsky.social Director Laureate Prof Kevin Galvin - the REFLEX Classifier (RC™) - has been released by the Uni of Newcastle
Transforming the minerals sector to meet growing demand: www.newcastle.edu.au/research/sto... 🧪
Transforming the minerals sector to meet growing demand
Laureate Professor Kevin Galvin’s groundbreaking innovations are driving economic benefits and reducing environmental impacts across the global resources sector.
www.newcastle.edu.au
March 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
coeminerals.bsky.social
Research Alert
We're pleased to share new research relating to innovation in coarse particle collection using novel reagents
Title: Novel reagent addition method for improved copper recovery
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪👩‍🔬 #WomeninSTEM #minerals #criticalminerals #mineralprocessing
Novel reagent addition method for improved copper recovery
The development, implementation, and optimization of novel minerals processing technologies are of paramount importance in enabling a sustainable tran…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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#smelter #mineralprocessing #copper #mining #chimney #greenwood #lotzkar #sketch #art

Hell's Bells and Other Slag at Lotzkar Memorial Park
#hellsbellsringingmysecretmusic #beautyisintheeyeofthebeholder #amidthemeasurelessgrossnessandtheslag
Historic Lotzkar Memorial Park with waste slag or ‘Hell's Bells’, left over from the copper smelting process. The BC Copper Co. smelter was built to handle copper ore from the Mother Lode mine. It operated in Canada near Greenwood, British Columbia from 1901-1918. Sketch art by Don Rice.
May 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Research alert
Sharing new @coeminerals.bsky.social research showing significant advancement in the development of multi-stimuli-responsive polymers (& introducing a new word: 🌸 "Flavyliumation" 🌼)

🧪 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

@monashuniversity.bsky.social #uniSA #mineralprocessing
Multi-stimuli-responsive polymers enabled by bio-inspired dynamic equilibria of flavylium chemistry - Chemical Science (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/D5SC00977D
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March 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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The Centre's collaborative work with FLS to develop game-changing technology got a shout-out in Australian Mining Magazine: www.australianmining.com.au/fls-future-s...

🧪 #mineralprocessing #Australianscience #ARC #noveltechnology @coeminerals.bsky.social
FLS’ future solutions empowering mines
FLS is taking a holistic view of the entire metallurgical process to unlock value across recovery, efficiency and sustainability.
www.australianmining.com.au
June 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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🧪Research alert 👩‍🔬

Congrats @coeminerals.bsky.social researchers/authors Jackquline Eardley (PhD), Dr Will Ng & Prof George Franks on a new paper:

Quantifying entrapment in selective flocculation-flotation: Model and measurement method

➡️https://tinyurl.com/y5fsc3jz

#mineralprocessing #minerals
October 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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@coeminerals.bsky.social Director L/Prof. Kevin Galvin provides latest research into 'Evaluating Coarse Particle Flotation' with additional notes (on LinkedIn). Read it here: www.linkedin.com/posts/kevin-...
🧪 #mineralprocessing #Australianscience
Kevin Galvin on LinkedIn: A new method for assessing coarse particle flotation performance Part I −…
Evaluating Coarse Particle Flotation Luke Crompton’s Part I and II publications concerned with the assessment of coarse particle flotation are now published…
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February 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Sketch art | donrice.art
#smelter #mineralprocessing #copper #mining #chimney #greenwood #lotzkar #scape #eastcoastkin #sketch #art
Hell's Bells and Other Slag at Lotzkar Memorial Park
Hell's Bells and Other Slag at Lotzkar Memorial Park
#hellsbellsringingmysecretmusic #beautyisintheeyeofthebeholder #amidthemeasurelessgrossnessandtheslag
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August 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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We 💙 the work our team does to improve #MineralProcessing

@coeminerals.bsky.social researcher Yuxuan Luo (Uni. of Melbourne node) is 'Improving water recovery in mineral extraction through a PhD'. Learn more in this feature article:
research.unimelb.edu.au/study/experi...

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Improving water recovery in mineral extraction through a PhD
Yuxuan Luo is improving the dewatering process to make mineral extraction more sustainable through a University of Melbourne PhD in chemical engineering.
research.unimelb.edu.au
February 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
coeminerals.bsky.social
Ahead of 11 Feb, which celebrates Women & Girls in Science 3x @coeminerals.bsky.social researchers share science career insights, childhood inspo and advice for #research roles
youtu.be/hjwvT4KK-yg?...

🧪👩‍🔬 #WomeninScience #GirlsinScience #WomeninSTEM @monashuniversity.bsky.social #MineralProcessing
Women and Girls in Science, 11 Feb 2025
YouTube video by COEMinerals Administration Team
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February 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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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
coeminerals.bsky.social
We are delighted to share a link so you can watch our amazing Prof. Graeme Jameson talking about his world-famous #mineralprocessing invention on NBN News / Your story (14 May 25)
The Professor behind the ‘Jameson Cell’: www.nbnnews.com.au?p=734636
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Your story: The Professor behind the ‘Jameson Cell’ - NBN News
It's an invention you may not be familiar with - but the Jameson Cell has made a world of difference
www.nbnnews.com.au
June 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
coeminerals.bsky.social
Research Alert
Congratulations all authors on a new paper: Reprocessing of Sulphide Flotation Tailings for Copper Recovery: Characterisation
The paper presents a detailed characterisation of flotation tailings from a selected copper processing plant 🧪
www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/15...
#MineralProcessing
www.mdpi.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
coeminerals.bsky.social
There is a prototype of Centre-developed REFLUX Flotation Cell #RFC technology housed at the University of Queensland, which enables expanded testing opportunities for the device - including this new research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 #fluiddynamics #minerals #mineralprocessing
Understanding the effect of particle shapes on particle motions in Reflux Flotation Cell’s downcomer through fluid dynamic modelling
The Reflux Flotation Cell (RFC) developed in recent years has proven to be able to process a wide size range of particles and enhance the throughput i…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
coeminerals.bsky.social
Research Alert
Sharing a new research paper that explores the 'Measurement of gas dispersion parameters in a REFLUX flotation cell': tinyurl.com/by2sycpv
The #RFC is a #mineralprocessing technology invented by Centre Director Laureate Prof Kevin Galvin; commercial partner #FLS
Congrats all authors 🧪
Measurement of gas dispersion parameters in a reflux flotation cell
Performance of mineral flotation process in terms of grade and recovery is critically dependent on achieving the optimal gas dispersion in a flotation…
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June 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM