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Compiled by Dr. Joe Herbertson
June 2001
Sustainable Resource
Processing
Going
Forward
•A key interaction is with
the Global Mining Initiative - Mining Minerals Sustainable Development and its Australian partner
AMEEF
•The next round of CRC
nominations is expected towards the end of the year
•Two applications for Major National Research Facilities would
strengthen the R&D capability: Sustainable Hydrometallurgy in Perth and
Sustainable Energy in Newcastle
•CSIRO is re-organising
itself to include the‘Sustainable Minerals and Energy Group’
•The CEO’s of six major
minerals companies have engaged George Littlewood to review the capabilities of industry
organisations to respond to the major challenges ahead, including sustainable
development
•CSIRO is facilitating an exercise to galvanise a sector level
response to the related issues of sustainability, competitiveness and image, and
establish the national agenda
A workshop
will be held in six months time to review all aspects of progress
The next six months
will see a number of important parallel activities and initiatives develop
which provide the opportunity to build synergy and alignment
To take the outcomes
of this project forward most effectively means interacting closely and flexibly
with all involved to find the optimum organisational forms