Description: Minerals for our Future
ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals
The world needs new, more efficient ways to recover minerals
‘ Beneficiation’ (the minerals separation process) is a high-energy consuming stage of mining. Many techniques used to separate minerals today are innefficient and wasteful, despite minerals being a finite resource, some minerals becoming harder to recover and against a backdrop of growing demand for metals to enable clean energy, medical and other technology innovation. The Centre’s scientific research is discovering inventive new ways to separate minerals and metals — including rare earth elements ( REE )