COEMinerals: An ARC Centre of Excellence

We're innovating and inventing to create more sustainable future for minerals processing, and enabling a new generation of STEM & minerals sector leaders.

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Event announcement
We invite our community to attend a Symposium celebrating the outstanding scientific contributions of Prof San H. Thang to polymer science

Molecules for Metals & Minerals Symposium 🧪
4-5 Feb 2027
Novotel Melbourne On Collins Vic Aust

https://t.co/WkkpsOO1cv

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@CoeMinerals team enjoyed a meet-and-greet conversation with Dr Paul Ebert this week - the newly appointed Executive Director of the Newcastle Institute forEnergy and Resources (@UON_NIER) at @Uni_Newcastle
Quotable quote by Dr Ebert: "Think of the better world we can make"
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Research Alert
🏃‍♂️Mark Drechsler puts the GRolls® novel tech through its paces in this paper:
Investigating the size reduction & energy performance of the innovative GRolls® crushing tech on porphyry copper gold & magnetite hashtag ore feed materials
👉https://t.co/T04R82iWJF

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@CoeMinerals is championing change📣
Centre Director Laureate Prof. Kevin Galvin (@Uni_Newcastle) spoke to a new paradigm for mineral processing circuits in his address at the international #MineralProcessingCircuits26 conference
@arc_gov_au @FLSmidth @MEI_Conferences #Minerals

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@CoeMinerals researcher Prof @ChunxiaZhaopresented a Centre-developed #biotechnology platform that harnesses #peptides & #proteins to target #minerals with exceptional specificity and affinity at #ALTA26
Access news materials at: https://t.co/Pe3YiwYfDP

@arc_gov_au #WomeninSTEM

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🧪Research alert
@CoeMinerals researchers want to better-understand why #ultrafine rare earth #mineral particles in mining waste #tailings are so difficult to recover; then develop more effective ways to recover them

New paper on topic: https://t.co/WgepKuLSob

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@CoeMinerals is unlocking mineral value from waste
Find out how we're recovering #graphite from end-of-life #Lithium-ion #batteries in our 2025 Annual Report p15-16 https://t.co/oiH9n3iX0W🧪
@arc_gov_au @MelbourneOf #recycling #Criticalminerals #mineralrecovery #criticalminerals

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Oh, the people you'll meet!
It was great to see the @FLSmidth team in Cape Town. Thanks for flying the flag for the #GradePro Classifier: an Australian-invented 🐨#MineralProcessing technology with rigorous scientific research 🧪 supporting its development
@arc_gov_au #minerals

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Yeah team📣✨🙌
We've been updating experts from 15 countries on multiple new, science-informed ways to improve the 'physical separation' methods used in mineral processing at #PhysicalSeparation26
📷credit for group shot+big thanks to @barrywills @arc_gov_au #mineralprocessing

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The @CoeMinerals 2025 Annual Report is available.
We invite you to take a look!
👉https://t.co/2vEIcTuiw5

🧪science achievements, research highlights, industry engagement & strategic milestones that show how we're enabling & driving change in #MineralProcessing🪨
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Our @Uni_Newcastle-based Centre of Excellence has a close connection with the @UCT_news in South Africa & its Centre for #Minerals #Research🪨🧪🥼
@CoeMinerals Director has presented how Centre research & invention is improving and simplifying #MineralProcessing
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🧪Research alert
#nickel & #cobalt #CriticalMinerals are important for low carbon technologies
A new paper explores Challenges & Opportunities of Extraction of Nickel & Cobalt from Complex Low-Grade Lateritic Ores: https://t.co/WOui6mJ1IT

Congrats authors
@arc_gov_au @UQ_News

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Research alert
Diving into nanobubbles 🫧🫧🫧🫧

New COEMinerals research seeks to quantify the role of nanobubbles in #Flotation mineral separations
👇https://t.co/D7H355AKlD

#MineralProcessing @UQ_News @arc_gov_au #nanobubbles

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'From separation to dry stacking: Comparative dewatering and handling of clay-rich tailings using solid bowl centrifugation & press filtration' research provides a knowledge base for development of an efficient & #sustainable #tailings management strategy
https://t.co/crLlYtUBRB

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Here's a fun one! 🐘
Here is a short animation of the classic 'Elephant Curve' graph that brings to life how science-based innovations are improving mineral particle recovery & lifting the trunk & tail of the elephant https://t.co/gVmCng5LBh
Created by @CoeMinerals & Grok (AI)

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Research
Congrats @uniQLD node on the 𝐁𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬:𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭 & 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 paper-Chemical Engineering https://t.co/l2F1zwZwxQ
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We're 'all in' when it comes to shaping the future & driving change in the mineral processing industry💪
From workshops, keynotes, presentations, panels, posters & advocating for cleaner technologies @COEMinerals members + industry partners were there at #flotation25
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@coeminerals researchers have found a clever way to help tiny, copper-rich particles stick better & separate more efficiently during #flotation separations

Research paper: https://t.co/zkEYNlmZbA

See an explainer & researcher insights here: https://t.co/2iUH5wNA2v

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Research alert
Congrats @CoeMinerals researchers/authors Jackquline Eardley (PhD), Dr Will Ng & Prof George Franks on a new paper: Quantifying entrapment in selective flocculation-flotation: Model and measurement method

➡️https://t.co/xCovKmcQq2

#minerals #flotation @UniMelb

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Research alert🧪
Congratulations to our PhD Regina Medeiros and all authors on your newly published research:
Formation and breakage of chalcopyrite aggregates produced by anionic polyacrylamides: Influence of polymer molecular weight and shear conditions
https://t.co/UgSiiCEBR4