From 1 July 2009, ACMER, currently a unit within the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at the University of Queensland, and JKTech (the primary technology transfer vehicle for SMI Centres) will form a new unit to offer an expanded range of professional development and training courses to the global minerals and energy industries. The name of this new entity is SMI Knowledge Transfer.
From this date, this new SMI initiative, under the JKTech banner, will offer mining industry and government agency personnel, from operations through to corporate level, quality professional development and training in all aspects of the mine life cycle. SMI Knowledge Transfer will build on the already strong brands of JKTech, ACMER and the individual SMI Centres. The range of activities will (while highlighting sustainable innovations) encompass exploration, operation, closure, relinquishment and other life-of mine aspects to enable mining industry and government personnel to gain knowledge and skills for any part of the mine life-cycle they desire.
ACMER was established by the Australian minerals industry in 1993, and was initially known as the Australian Centre for Minesite Rehabilitation Research (ACMRR), under the Directorship of Professor Clive Bell, and focussed on the delivery of a technology transfer program to address the needs of the mining industry. In 2006 the Australian Centre for Minerals Extension and Research (ACMER) became a unit of SMI. In its 16 year history ACMER has continued delivery of quality, targeted courses and workshops to mining industry and government personnel on a broad range of topics, many of which were related to key sustainable development principles and implementation of sustainable development practices at the operational level. Courses and workshops traditionally offered by ACMER will continue to be offered through SMI Knowledge Transfer.
JKTech offers a range of innovative solutions for the minerals industry aimed at reducing operating costs and improving efficiency. It has a long standing history of providing quality training in comminution and flotation circuit understanding and optimisation, with the assistance of JK software tools such as JKSimMet and JKSimFloat. JKTech has also provided training in statistics and experimental design for mineral processing personnel for many years, and recently has developed introductory sessions to process mineralogy and mineral processing.
This is an exciting opportunity for ACMER, JKTech and the SMI centres to provide industry leadership in quality training and professional development activities around the world in specialised and general areas for operations and sustainable development.
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