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Compiled by Dr. Joe Herbertson
June 2001
Sustainable Resource
Processing
Going
Forward
•Finalise and seek funding for
promising project proposals; keep the process going to develop new ideas, the process is
certainly not exhausted
• Over the coming year, establish comprehensive solid R&D
programs in response to the key challenges facing the minerals processing
industries
•Quickly develop support for high
potential impact opportunities, such as inorganic polymers
•Aim to initiate at least two ‘2050
Scenarios’ research projects [eg. Al, Ni..] by the end of this year, as the prelude to
identifying appropriate strategic breakthrough projects
•Establish over the next year the
foundations of a ‘$10M per annum’ scale sustainable minerals processing thrust; this means
developing exciting ideas as much as winning the support of industry and
government
•Work with AMIRA as the
leading global broker of collaborative R&D
•Do the necessary homework to respond
successfully to the next round of CRC nominations later this year
The process of
generating innovative R&D projects that are explicitly driven from the sustainable development
agenda is considered very fertile