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MEDIA RELEASE
April 6, 2009
2009 Australian Mining Technology Conference: Call for Papers
The Cooperative Research Centre for Mining (CRCMining) would like to announce
its Call for Papers for the 2009 Australian Mining Technology Conference, to be held
at the University of Queensland’s Business School Downtown on October 27-28
2009.
The theme for this year’s Conference is “Technology Solutions for Challenging
Financial Times”. The Technical Committee is inviting abstracts from industry and
research on the following topics: materials handling, mine planning and scheduling,
automated mining technologies, operational decisions support, orebody definition and
characterisation, mining methods and rock fragmentation.
Mining industry and collaborative industry-research papers will be highly regarded.
the abstract template. Abstracts should be limited to 500 words. Abstracts are due by
April 24, with authors being notified of acceptance shortly thereafter.
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About CRCMining
CRCMining is a multi-million dollar research centre established under the
Commonwealth Government’s Cooperative Research Centres program. The Centre is
supported in its work by 14 industry partners and four leading Australian universities.
The Centre’s research is spread across five program areas: Shovels, Trucks and
Electrical; Coal Production; Smart Mining Systems; Geoengineering and Technology
Implementation.
The Centre’s purpose is to deliver a continual stream of safety and productivity
enhancing technologies to the mining industry and to have these technologies adopted
by the industry.
Media contact:
Andrew Long
Communications Manager
Phone: +61 7 3365 5637
Fax: +61 7 3365 5636
Email: a.long@crcmining.com.au
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