Industry Partners
Strong strategic partnerships form the platform for long term sustainable JKMRC growth. The key strategic partners listed below have comitted significant long term financial support for strategic areas of JKMRC research.
AMIRA International Ltd
AMIRA International Ltd is an independent association of minerals companies which develops, brokers and facilitates collaborative research projects. Its member companies include most of the major minerals companies and equipment suppliers around the world. Two such AMIRA collaborative projects in which JKMRC plays a key role are AMIRA P9 (Optimisation of Mineral Processing through Modelling and Simulation) and AMIRA P843 (Geometallurgical Mapping and Mine Modelling).
CRC ORE Ltd
The Cooperative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE) is transforming the mining industry’s approach to evaluation and extraction of mineral deposits. The Centre aims to develop the capability to comprehensively characterise and evaluate the economic and environmental impact of various mineral extraction methods. The University of Queensland is one of the key research participants in CRC ORE projects, through the JKMRC and the Bryan Research Centre for Mining and Geology. Visit www.crcore.org.au to learn more about the Centre’s research and integrated case studies.
JKTech Pty Ltd
JKTech is the technology transfer company for the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at The University of Queensland. Its role is to take viable research outcomes and transfer them to the international minerals industry. JKTech was part of JKMRC from 1986 and was subsequently incorporated as a company in 2001. As well as its role as a UQ commercialisation company, JKTech provides equipment, scholarships and in-kind support to JKMRC.
Rio Tinto
In 2009, Rio Tinto and UQ formed the Rio Tinto Centre for Advanced Mineral Sorting to be located at the JKMRC. This Centre is focused on the development of advanced technologies for the separation and upgrading of important minerals, such as copper and nickel, with increased energy efficiency. The formation of this Centre cements a long term research relationship between Rio Tinto and the JKMRC which includes a number of collaborative projects.
Anglo American
The Anglo American group (particularly involving Anglo Platinum and Anglo Research) has been a long term strategic partner of the JKMRC with involvement in a number of AMIRA collaborative projects as well as support for a number of other research activities, particularly in the technology development area.
Newcrest
Newcrest has supported JKMRC research via AMIRA collaborative projects, via CRC ORE projects as well as other research projects in comminution and flotation.
Metso Minerals
Metso Minerals has been a strong supporter of research at the JKMRC over a long period of time, mainly through Metso’s Brisbane based Process Technology and Innovation Division, involving collaborative research via AMIRA projects as well as support for postgraduate students and for the provision of equipment for research activities. A more recent fine grinding project further cements this strategic partnership and provides close collaboration with Metso’s Comminution Product Line.
Collaboration Research Partners
JKMRC undertakes collaborative research with a number of institutions outside UQ, including:
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
CSIRO, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth, Australia
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Imperial College, London, UK
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), Xuzhou, China