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From Amira’s Archives: P902 Dry Processing of Minerals

19 January, 2023 by zeme capa

Water – An Exhaustible Resource

In 2005, Amira’s P902 project reported:

“Mines are substantial water users, mostly in the plant, but water can no longer be considered the ‘free’ and inexhaustible resource that minerals engineers have been able to rely on in the past. Many ore deposits exist in arid areas, and others are worked in areas in which there is severe competition for water from agriculture, other industries, and local populations. Water supplies for mining will be increasingly compromised in the future, reducing availability and increasing cost. There is also a need to meet more demanding regulatory standards in the quality of the process water that is disposed of to the environment. These pressures are leading to an increasing emphasis on saving water in mineral processing operations, including its more efficient re-cycling.

A decade later BHP installed its second desalination plant at Escondida. At an estimated cost of US$3.4B per desalination plant, this challenges has cost in the region of nearly US$7B, without addressing the cost and environmental footprint of trucking water from the the coast to the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. This represents one mine in our industry. How quickly will the cost of managing access to water multiply when we consider other operations in arid regions across the world?

Is there another way? How effective are the alternatives? What challenges need to be overcome from a technical, scalable, and economic perspective? How does Dry Processing stack up?

Advantages of Dry Processing

Dry processing would have a number of advantages:

  • No tailings effluent to be disposed of, reducing disposal costs and demands, and limiting environmental impact.
  • No dewatering processes are necessary (e.g. thickeners, filters, driers).
  • Operating costs may be cheaper due to reduced need for pumping, chemicals etc.
  • Plant footprint may be smaller, and capital cost lower.
  • Processes may be more energy efficient.
  • Bulk product freight costs would be reduced, with zero or low product.
  • Some dry processes may be more efficient in terms of value recovery grade, though this would depend on the process and commodity.

Amira P902 “Dry Processing of Minerals”

The Amira P902 “Dry Processing of Minerals” project looked at setting the foundations for developing radical solution to dry processing from both the technological, economic, and policy perspectives.

Researchers

The four research groups involved in the production of the report, and the areas in which they contributed were:

  • The Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC), a CSRP participant, contributed a chapter reviewing dry processing techniques and applications. The JKMRC was also responsible for overall coordination of the project and production of the final report.
  • CSIRO Division of Minerals, a CSRP participant, contributed a chapter reviewing ore sensing technologies.
  • RWTH Aachen University, Germany, contributed two chapters: a review of the status quo of dry coal processing, and a review of sorting technologies.
  • The Mining and Minerals Centre at the University of Nottingham, England, contributed a chapter on dust management in the dry processing of minerals.

The Amira P902 Dry Processing of Minerals Report

This team provided a comprehensive 287 page report that brought together the world’s understanding of:

  1. A review of sensing technologies for ore sorting, including Nuclear methods; X-ray methods; Photometric methods; Electrical methods; Magnetic methods; Microwave methods; Sorting processes; Air separation processes; Operational sorting processes
  2. A review of sorting in non-mineral industries
  3. A review of patents relating to dry ore processing
  4. A review of suppliers of sorting and dry processing equipment
  5. A review of the status quo and performance of dry coal processing
  6. A comprehensive review of sorting technologies
  7. Investigation into supplier capabilities and a market analysis
  8. Investigation into industrial applications
  9. Dust management in dry Processing, including a review of regulation and legislations across the globe
  10. Mineral processing operations across coal, iron ore, mineral sands, and non-ferrous metals and construction and industrial minerals
  11. Evaluation of dust issues in other industries
  12. A suite of conclusions and recommendations
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Amira P902 Dry Minerals Processing: Contents Pages of Final Report

Next Step: Amira P902A Dry Processing of Copper Ores

The Amira P902 “Dry Processing of Minerals” project was the foundational study to support the second stage study: Amira P902A “Dry Processing for Copper Ores”. The 2008 Amira P902A Proposal outlines that the objective of the second stage of this investigation was

“To define the separation performance and operating envelop of the alternative classifiers and separation technologies in terms of the ore characteristics, classifier operating parameters and throughput. The concurrent activities would address:

  • Staged evaluation of the technologies to separate copper ores
  • Adaption technologies to ore sorting technology for specific ore types
  • scaling and piloting of Dry Processing by enhanced electrostatic separation

Each of the three components would be pursued by a research institution that had identified as having special expertise in each particular field. By using a global, multi-team approach the project was expected to conclude within two years.

The key deliverable was to demonstrate technology performance, with a simulated ore, and a recommended ore, amenable to pre-concentration.

GFC Pause

The Amira P902A “Dry Processing for Copper Ores” project was went into pause when the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) hit.

… Is this something we should look at reviving?

Should we revive Amira P902A Dry Processing for Copper Ores?

Let us know if you are interested: contact Patricio Pastorelli, our GM LATAM who is centrally located to co-ordinate an effort across the Americas where mining for Copper in Arid regions and the pressure on water resourcing – for mining and communities – remains a challenge.

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Centers of Excellence

8 January, 2023 by zeme capa

Creating successful opportunities to develop and support talent and skills creation by necessity is a critical step in solving our industry’s current and emerging great challenges. We share some thoughts on how we are using “Centers of Excellence” to build solutions for our industry.

Era of Innovation

Over the last decade the minerals industry has astutely moved into the innovation space, adopting and adapting technologies to support remote operations, automation, and robotics. Additional emerging applications sit on a bed of digital analytics, machine learning, and AI.

These technologies are available now because of investments in research and development over the last 30 to 40 years. Investments made by governments, computer sciences, medical, financial, and manufacturing sectors. Our industry is smart to leverage these investments and to borrow from these to develop minerals industry technologies. They bring us ideas, concepts, and processes that can help improve operational efficiency, effectiveness, and safety.

Photographer: Anucha Tiemsom

Minerals Industry Innovation

But these emerging technologies are not sufficient for the great wall of challenges we face in the next 3 to 5 years. We need to meet increasing decarbonisation targets – in operations whilst dramatically increasing the supply of raw materials to support the green revolution … We have to discover more, and move, process and extract minerals much, much more efficiently than ever contemplated before

… And we are living in a world where there is declining interest in joining our industry.

We are at risk of not having the talent and skills to help us find solutions to some of the most fundamental mining sciences and engineering challenges. So Amira Global is on a crusade to deliver sustainable global opportunities that will provide the talent and skills for near and future term. We invite you all to join our efforts.

Our Critical Questions

We have to ask ourselves a few critical questions:

  1. What does Talent and Skills development look like to us?
  2. How are we going to do create opportunities that deliver to industry technological knowledge, R&D output and transference to innovation (testing, scaling, piloting?) whilst simultaneously supporting the ecosystems to produce skills?
  3. What do we mean by a Center of Excellence?
  4. Where are the best places/locations/environments to make this all a reality?
  5. When? What sort of timelines do we envisage?
  6. How can we ensure these efforts are sustainable and produce into the future?

These are questions we are working with our ecosystem to address. Will be get all of them right first go – absolutely not, but we are good at learning and developing (and have been improving our processes of over 64 years!)

Centers of Excellence

To us Centers of Excellence have certain characteristics:

  • A “Center” needs to be connected to a broader field – they cannot exist in isolation
  • They can be physical or virtual, but always need a primary point of contact or position
  • They exist to breed excellence – they may not be there yet, but the intent is always to systematically work towards introducing and developing excellence in a field that is connected to other centers and spaces through constructive and collaborative engagement
  • Their structure is framed to ensure excellence in governance and financial stewardship
  • The programs are designed to systematically develop and deploy knowledge and technologies that offer solutions to our industry’s challenges
  • The Centers have cultures that are positive, constructive, collaborative, and connected – to each other, to industry, and to research communities
  • There is a focus on developing leadership, operational and research capability to allow a diffusion of outcomes through into our communities
  • Always, these centers must have a strong connection to the minerals industry
Photographer: raigvi

Examples of Amira Centers of Excellence

Amira has a long history of developing Centers of Excellence.

AMSRI

The Australian Mineral Science Research Institute (Amira P924 project (“AMSRI”)) was established through Amira in 2005 to 2010 as a virtual institute as a collaboration between University of South Australia, University of Newcastle, University of Melbourne, and University of Queensland. Along with industry sponsorship through Amira, AMSRI also received support through Australian Federal funding.

The AMSRI initiative was a bold one.  It was very encouraging that a sub-set of minerals industry majors decided to support fundamental studies that could lead to industry-wide benefits; the minerals industry is more typically focused on short to medium term initiatives that have the potential to directly benefit only those companies that had funded the work. Such tactics lead to incremental improvements; whereas AMSRI sought to identify potentially step-change improvements. 

Eight concepts for improved flowsheets or equipment for mineral processing emerged from AMSRI: Four of the Emerging Concepts related to new technologies for Coarse Particle Recovery, worth NPV benefits of several hundred million dollars in each case. These benefits arise from combinations of greatly improved energy efficiencies and lowered water demand in comminution.

A further four Emerging Concepts, arising from other parts of the AMSRI program, though less advanced also indicated high potential for significant benefits to the minerals industry.

In order to successfully commercialise the Emerging Concepts that were identified, it was recommended that companies experienced in commercialising technology become formally involved in future in their ongoing development, with the development of those eight Concepts be spun-out from AMSRI, into projects that are managed in a way that fast tracks the path towards commercialisation or towards identifying fatal flaws.  The optimum path forward is likely to be different for each of the eight Emerging Concepts.

Our Learnings:

  • design pathways and processes to commercialisation into the programs from the outset (management of IP and governance surrounding these are essential conversations in all projects)
  • include supplier companies in the projects (Our Member based spans the minerals industry and we encourage Supplier Members to participate in our projects)
  • align with innovation commercialisation support agencies early on that can rapidly support spin-offs (part of the Amira Global Alliances Program)

P934 WAXI & P1061 SAXI

The West African eXploration Initiative (WAXI) (Amira P934 project), lead by the University of Western Australia (in collaboration with nearly 20 other institutes), has been running for over 15 years. It has produced an incredible cohesive body of geological knowledge across West Africa, a database of nearly 100 theses, and over 90 PhD, Masters and Post Docs … 60% of whom are based in West Africa! This is an incredible legacy of knowledge and talent for the region that is now available to support industry exploration activities in the region.

An exciting development is the emerging leadership in the region with graduates who have trained through the program now leading modules from within the region.

This is producing a hub of knowledge and a West African Community of Practice in Exploration.

In parallel the South American eXploration Initiative (SAXI) (Amira P1061 project) is developing the equivalent talent and knowledge in the South American geological region connected through plat tectonics to West Africa! This enables the two regions to feed off each other’s knowledge, learnings, and regional Communities of Practice.

Additional “AXI” centers that are in development using the same model include:

  • EAXI – an East African eXploration Initiative
  • GAXI – the Geodynamic Andes eXploration Initiative

Each AXI produces a Center of Excellence to service the region, whist simultaneously connecting to each other to create a cohesive global body of knowledge and capability.

Our Learnings:

  • Developing regionally relevant knowledge requires developing capability in the region.
  • Connecting Centers of Excellence improves depth and breadth of knowledge and skills
  • Virtual institutes can be strengthened by the provision of world-class equipped and well maintained laboratories in each region. This needs to be built into the creation of hubs in various regions.

Amira Full Mining Value Chain (ACoE)

Embracing the learnings from Amira’s various programs, Amira has initiated the development of a full mining value Center of Excellence (ACoE) in Ghana to service testing, scaling, piloting needs of R&D programs in the region.

We are in deliberations with the regional universities on how the ACoE can serve a cohesive, interconnected program of works that can support testing and deployment of research, development, and innovation outcomes and strengthening capability building for the region, the continent, and the globe.

Pan African Decarbonisation Institute (PADI)

Amira is on a mission to create a virtual Pan African institute of complementary and supplementary research, development and training that collaborates, connects, co-ordinates to co-create a pipeline of talented Africans that position Africa as a leading player in the decarbonisation value chain, and that transforms Africa's energy sector by leveraging Africa's new energy material resources and Africa's research, development and training capability.

Our vision is to build a self-sustaining pipeline of Pan African research, operational, and technical leadership, talent, and skills in minerals decarbonisation from resource management through to product development and delivery.

PADI’s current initial proponents include: University of Cape Town, Université de Lubumbashi, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), University of Mines & Technology, Takwa (UMAT), and Reminex (ManageM Group).

Amira will launch a Prospectus at Indaba in February 2023 that invites further participation from industry, government agencies, and research organisations to progress and support PADI and the opportunities this creates for industry technologies and skills pipeline.

Future Minerals Forum – Saudi Arabia

Jacqui Coombes has been invited to contribute to the closed Ministerial Roundtable in Riyadh as part of the Future Minerals Forum in January 2023. We look forward to updating our community on the developments and learnings from this discussion.

Follow up on Linkedin to stay in the loop.

Further information

In the meanwhile, please reach out to Anthony Anyimadu, our VP Mineral Processing and GM Africa who has taken a lead on both PADI and ACoE (labol1680218918g.ari1680218918ma@ud1680218918amiyn1680218918A.yno1680218918htnA1680218918).

Kindest regards

Jacqui Coombes

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2023 Foundations for Impact

1 January, 2023 by zeme capa

2023 heralds a new year for all of us, with fresh energy and renewed vigour to make the difference and impact in our industry in productivity and in how we extract and process resources that society is demanding. In 2023 we are ready to lay the foundation for impact and so turn words to action, and action to delivery. Beyond supporting the development and management of a fantastic portfolio of projects across the mine value chain, Amira has three major initiatives for this year, each designed to provide industry wide support and impact from R&D and Innovation:

  • Centers of Excellence to build talent pipeline for our industry
  • A Knowledge Platform to present a single trusted port to the globe’s verified, high-quality, R&D + Innovation outcomes and so readily and efficiently inform mining industry decision-making
  • Global Alliances to bring together the industry’s associations, testing facilities, and innovation hubs to help accelerate translation of R&D and innovation outcomes to industry

We invite you to join us on our 2023 journey as we lay the foundations and turn #Words2Action and #Action2Delivery. Let us share a little insight.

Amira Centers of Excellence

Photographer: PeopleImages.com – Yuri A

Amira Centers of Excellence are collaborations between leading academic institutions formed to accelerate training and translation that emerges from high impact collaborative research between the institutions. These ACoE are supported by the Amira Knowledge Platform and the Global Alliance program.

Over the next 12 months, Amira’s focus is on progressing two specific AcoEs:

  • A full mine value optimisation ACoE in Ghana involving three Academic Institutions, and
  • A Pan African virtual institute focussed on Decarbonisation talent and skills development. Amira is currently in discussions with academics and research organisations across Africa, including Morocco, DRC, Zambia, Ghana, and South Africa.

For more info labol1680218918g.ari1680218918ma@ud1680218918amyna1680218918.ynoh1680218918tna1680218918

Amira Knowledge Platform

Imagine not having to rely on googled information, and instead make technical mining industry decisions based on trusted, verified, and reliable R&D + Innovation outcomes?The Amira Knowledge Platform (AKP) will be a trusted platform with a governance structure to verify, validate, and integrate outcomes from the world’s researchers and innovators. The grunt work of integrating new knowledge and new outcomes will be done for you. At its core is the collection of Amira’s 60 years of research outcomes, Data Metallogenica, and CRC ORE’s wiki database. The Amira Knowledge Platform summarizes and interprets the results of minerals and mining research, development, and technologies.

Photographer: MR.RAWIN TANPIN

Our plan over the next 12 months is to develop a minimum viable pilot platform that will form the foundation for future expansion. In parallel we are working on structuring a governance process around the platform, including exploring how we can ensure the platform is sustainable. In both instances we are collaborating with the International Copper Association of Australia (ICAA). We would like to especially acknowledge CRC ORE who has provided seed funding as well as the Grade Engineering wiki as formative material for this platform.

For more info labol1680218918g.ari1680218918ma@ay1680218918namar1680218918bus.l1680218918ina1680218918

Amira Global Alliances

Amira’s Global Alliance program seeks to interconnect all mining related associations, test facilities, and innovation hubs. Our purpose is to align and shorten the pathway between research and industry deployment. To date we have connected with associations, facilities, and innovation hubs around the world.

Over the next 12 months we plan on bringing together more events and showcasing opportunities, talent, technologies, and alliances through these connections to help our industry members test and deploy innovation with and through respective Amira partners and alliances.

For more info labol1680218918g.ari1680218918ma@il1680218918lerot1680218918sap.o1680218918icirt1680218918ap1680218918

Photographer: metamorworks

We welcome our Members’ voice as we shape each of these as conduits to increase return on investment in the many collaborative projects sponsored through Amira.

We wish you all an exciting, productive, and engaging 2023.

Jacqui

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Spotlilght on our researchers: Fydji Sastrohardjo

8 December, 2022 by zeme capa

We are recognising the fantastic people working on Amira projects around the globe. Today, we spoke to Fydji Sastrohardjo, a researcher in the South American Exploration Initiative (SAXI).

Fydji is a lecturer and researcher within the Department of Geosciences at the Anton de Kom University of Suriname in Paramaribo. She is also the program coordinator of the MSc program in Mineral Geosciences of the same department. 

The Anton de Kom University is the only academic higher education institution in Suriname to train geoscientists. It currently offers a BSc Geoscience program, a MSc Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering program and a MSc Mineral Geosciences program.

A number of graduating students have done research topics related to SAXI work. 

Tell us about your role in the SAXI project? 

I am currently doing my PhD working on Module 4 P1061B project studying the Shield scale structural and thermal-tectonic evolution. I am looking at the nature and significance of high grade metamorphic rocks of the Guiana Shield. The project is in joint supervision between the Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse, Utrecht University and the Anton de Kom University of Suriname. 

What is your research background in this area? 

I always knew I wanted to become a geologist. After I obtained my BSc degree in Mineral Resource Management in 2010, I started working for a junior gold exploration company and later on for IAMGOLD’s Rosebel Gold Mines as an exploration geologist.

In 2015 I pursued my MSc degree in Mineral Geosciences. It was a challenging period, working a full-time job with a 14/7 rotational schedule, but I am happy I persevered.

In 2018 I decided to change careers and transitioned from the industry to academia. I currently teach Physical Geology for first year students and Geochemical Exploration for third year students. And now I am pursuing my PhD with SAXI to further build on my academic career.   

What is your research passion?  

I would say fieldwork is my passion as this was definitely a career defining experience for me. This goes back to when I myself was a bachelor student. Even as a student I understood the lack of basic tools and opportunities that were offered at better universities. Thanks to enthusiastic lecturers we were still able to do some amazing fieldwork activities. We visited pristine locations that not everyone gets to see.

Coming from that I always wanted to do my part to improve the department and give students a better chance than I myself got. Last year, as part of my PhD, I participated in a SAXI organized fieldwork in south Suriname that included a team of geologists with different specializations. During the group discussions I could gather different perspectives and this was so insightful. I learned so much and I’m hoping to pass this same level of knowledge onto my students one day. 

How long have you been a researcher? 

I consider myself a beginner researcher.  I am actually enrolled in course on University Research Qualification and to my opinion I still have to develop some skills and qualities. I don’t have peer reviewed publications to my name yet, but this will certainly change in the near future. 

What is the best thing about your job? 

I get to inspire the next young generation geoscientists. My goal is to spark their intellectual curiosity towards geology. It gives a sense of fulfillment to know I can help young people chose and understand their future and prepare them for the field they’ll be working in.

Why do you think SAXI is important? 

For over 100 years geological and mineral data have been gathered all over the Guianas, however, the resulting mining projects have been limited. In my opinion that is in part due to the lack of large scale compilation and cross interpretation of all this available data.

SAXI offers us “a fresh pair of eyes” to look at various geological regions, cross-reference between the South American countries and our West African counterpart and potentially come up with new and improved models which may lead to a better understanding of the regional geology which will eventually lead to discovering new mineral deposits.

Without the SAXI cooperation the data would probably still be collected by various individuals but it would remain scattered and underexplored. 

How do you see SAXI benefiting industry? 

I think this ties back to my previous answer. As mineral deposits are getting harder to find we need a combination of expertise and resources from both the industry and academia to understand the regional geological model and mineral system for better exploration targeting. Furthermore, SAXI is building capacity, allowing for younger geologists like myself and other technical experts of this region to profile themselves.  

Tell us one special thing about you. 

I’m a full time teacher/researcher at the university, a full time wife and mom of two very young daughters and pursuing my PhD. I’ve always been determined and ambitious, but this is honestly by far the most challenging period in my life in terms of finding a good balance between work/research/life. But I wouldn’t have it any other way and it is a privilege to work with SAXI. I will (have to) work very hard to  achieve my goals and hopefully I will have success story to tell at the end of the road.  

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Tailings storage facilities evaluation update

15 November, 2022 by zeme capa

How safe is your tailings storage facility?

This was the question researchers posed to the international mining community as part of P1217, Evaluation of Tailings Storage Facilities (TSF) Monitoring Technologies when it began in July 2020.

P1217 is a cornerstone project being undertaken by The University of Western Australia (UWA).

It is designed to help companies evaluate the efficacy of technology on their sites.

We asked Project Lead and UWA Professor Andy Fourie how the project was progressing.

What stage is the project at now?

The project started two years ago and reached halfway in July 2022. Initially planned as a three-year project, all sponsors unanimously agreed to extend the project by one year due in part to Covid-related challenges as well as the significant benefits expected to be achieved in the second half of the project.

What outcomes have been achieved?

The first phase of the project, namely examining current monitoring systems in the marketplace to produce an independent report on their performance, has been completed.

We have created an interactive web-based app hosted on a tailing monitoring website that sponsors may use to:

  • Determine what parameters, behaviour changes and failure modes each monitoring technology can measure.
  • Identify monitoring technologies based on user-selected combinations of parameters, behaviour changes and/or failure modes
  • Classify monitoring technologies based on user-selected combinations of criteria such as: proven track record (i.e., commercial readiness index), internal or external measurement data acquisition capabilities, precision and accuracy.

Additionally, we have collected and interpreted the tailings from the major sponsors sites which in turn, provided the blueprint for creating digital twins that can best mimic the real-life TSFs.

Thorough investigation of precursors to failure of TSFs is in full swing with centrifuge testing and numerical modelling unlocking behavioural changes that can be interrogated against monitoring instrumentation data.

What have been the highlights so far?

The visits to the major sponsors TSF site have been a true highlight for the research team. The willingness and helpfulness of the mine site personnel to host us and help us collect all the samples that we wished to have has been remarkable.

In your opinion, how is this project benefitting industry?

Close to 100 members of the sponsoring companies currently have access to our monitoring technology dashboard. The sponsors can use the dashboard for interrogating the suitability of their monitoring technologies for determining an array of preliminary monitoring technology systems that can monitor against user-specific triggering failure mechanisms or anticipated changes in behaviour for a particular TSF site.

Furthermore, the mining companies and the technology providers get real insights into the logistics of installing multiple instrumentations on active TSFs and the challenges & solutions developed to achieve successful monitoring. The knowledge sharing sessions have also proven successful in understanding what, when and how can be monitored and by whom.

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Amira hosts Global Alliance Members

15 November, 2022 by zeme capa

Amira Globla was thrilled to welcome a delegation from Global Alliance member, AndesMETS, in Perth, Australia recently.

Twenty-two members of AndesMETS and Auscham visited as part of a trade delegation to encourage innovation and collaboration between Chilean and Australian METS companies.

AndesMETS is a network of METS companies servicing the mining industry in the Andes region. Auscham is the Chilean Australian Chambers of Commerce.

AndesMETS is a member of the Amira Global Alliance.

During the visit to Perth, they visited CORE Innovation Hub, the Australian Automation and Robotics Precinct (AARP) at Neerabup, and the Future Battery Industries CRC (FBI CRC).

The visit to FBI CRC included a comprehensive run-down on the initiative to advance the downstream processing and value adding in the battery value chain and the work happening in Australia in this space.

Amira Global CEO Dr Jacqui Coombes said she was confident the visit would be beneficial for both the Chilean and Australian mining communities.

“We are thrilled to host AndesMETS, who are a member of our Global Alliance, and Auscham. The visit highlights the spirit of collaboration in the international mining sector, particularly in South America. There are endless opportunities to work together to develop products and services that bring step-change to our industry,” Dr Coombes said.

AndesMETS President Mauro Mezzano was impressed with the mining innovation in the region.

“Andes METS and Auscham are very grateful of having met Amira during our Mining Trade Mission to Australia 2022, and the possibility of visiting centers of applied innovation in WA. All of those we met with, and the sites, are driving innovation in very relevant areas of the mining industry. We value Amira´s availability to support this mission and look forward to developing a long-term relationship fostering collaboration between METS from both regions,” Mr Mezzano said.

CORE Innovation Hub National Innovation Lead Renee Hakendorf said missions such as these were valuable pathways for improving mining operations.

“CORE Innovation Hub is pleased to be involved with the AndesMETS visiting delegation. To be able to connect with the international energy and mining ecosystem provides potential new avenues for collaboration and growth for CORE and its members along with the opportunity to continue to develop the local ecosystem,” Ms Hakendorf said.

FBI CRC CEO Shannon O’Rourke said the visit to the CRC was an opportunity to progress the mining industry’s objective toward net zero.

“Chile has an ambitious goal to increase their share of renewable energy to 70% by 2030, with battery technology key to achieving that aim.  Renewables supplied over 43% of Chile’s electricity in 2021; compared with Australia’s 29%. “Chile holds the worlds’ largest lithium resource, and Australia is the worlds’ largest lithium producer. Our two nations have a unique opportunity to help the world achieve net zero. We welcome the opportunity to exchange knowledge and expertise with the delegation from Chile to advance the existing research into mining and mineral processing,” Mr O’Rourke said.

The delegation met with miners, suppliers, and the broader Australian mining ecosystem in Brisbane, Sydney, and Perth.

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