By International Mining,
December 7, 2009 at 6:18 AM
Rio Tinto and The University of Queensland have announced the formation of the Rio Tinto Centre for Advanced Mineral Sorting to be located at the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre in Brisbane, Australia. According to Grant Thorne, himself a Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre alumni and until very recently Rio Tinto’s Group Executive for Technology and Innovation, “The $11 million Centre will focus on the development of advanced technologies for the separation and upgrading of important minerals, such as copper and nickel, with increased energy efficiency. [This] cements a long term research relationship between Rio Tinto and The University of Queensland. This Centre complements and integrates with our wider ‘Mine of the Future’ work.” (more…)