The role of Minerals Down Under is to create new knowledge and transformational technologies for the mineral sector and to ensure there are appropriate pathways for the transfer of that knowledge and technologies to industry in order to improve Australia’s global competitive position.

CSIRO Minerals uses great science to develop innovative solutions for Australia's minerals industry.

Researchers are hard at work developing a raft of technologies to help Australia's minerals industry remain globally competitive.

Advances in high-performance computing are revolutionising the way CSIRO solves problems in the resources industry according to the November/December edition of CSIRO Exploration & Mining's earthmatters magazine.

This Symposium will celebrate and showcase the extraordinary work of Dr Peter Hornby and highlight the impact his work has had on science and its application to industry problems.

CSIRO is holding a workshop on numerical simulation of materials that are stressed beyond their elastic limit.

New exploration concepts and technologies are being developed by researchers working through the Minerals Down Under National Research Flagship with the long-term aim of replenishing Australia’s resource base.

The CSIRO hydraulic fracturing group are pioneering new applications for caving-type mining operations, gas drainage from coal seams, geothermal reservoir development and carbon storage operations.

CSIRO is working closely with research partners and the Australian minerals industry to maximise the returns from mineral resources derived using hydrometallurgical processes while reducing the environmental impact of these processes.

Coal grain analysis information is providing a better understanding of the coal performance in existing applications, such as coke making and conventional power generation.

The concept of Sentinel Asia is to provide online information from Earth observation satellites in ‘near real-time’ through a network of webGIS services such as the Australian Sentinel Hotspots system. (0.31 secs)

A new method to mine gold without the expense of digging and crushing ore is being developed by CSIRO for use in areas not suited to conventional mining. (5:59)

Dr Cedric Griffiths is a geologist with a fascination for using computers to predict what lies underground in the Earth’s strata.

Remote sensing of hydrocarbon reservoirs in the continental shelf can be made difficult by unwanted signals from ocean waves. A new technique developed by the OCEANMAG project, led by Dr Jeanne Young, unmasks the geological data, which can reveal whether reservoirs contain hydrocarbons or sea water.

Australia's most authoritative magazine on sustainability in the environment, industry and community. ECOS and is published bi-monthly by CSIRO PUBLISHING both in print and online.

CSIRO’s earthmatters magazine is a free magazine, published three times a year which focusses on the hard issues faced by today’s exploration and mining industries.

HyChips™ is a robotic spectrometer system designed for the very rapid collection of high quality reflectance spectra from drill chips and blast-hole samples. This factsheet provides an in depth overview of the system components, its sampling rate and strategies and mineral sensitivities.

Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy (SIS) is used for high resolution chronostratigraphic control of sedimentary sequences.