Mining For Women

In a joint submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Paid Parental Leave, the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Women in Mining Network have called on the Government to implement a paid parental leave scheme to boost female participation in mining.

New Leaders' Talks Begin

WOLLONGONG Conference and Events sales and marketing manager Lauren Mansell says the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is hosting 200 to 250 delegates in Wollongong this week.

Mining Industry Is No Goldmine For Women

THERE's good news and bad news in the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy's latest Employment and Remuneration survey. The good news is that salaries in the minerals sector have climbed 18 per cent over the past two years; the bad news is that men, on average, are pocketing a substantially larger share of the loot than women.

Icon Of Metallurgy Dies At 93

THE man who refused to retire, Howard Worner, has died aged 93.

Cudeco Controversy Highlights The Importance Of Adhering To Mining Codes

AS ONE of the parent bodies of the Joint Ore Reserves Committee Code, the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is deeply interested in promoting understanding among downstream users of the code.

The True Test Of One's Metallurgy

Adrian Grosvenor is completing a PhD in materials engineering. He speaks to John Grandfield from the CSIRO manufacturing and infrastructure technology division.

Steelworks Boss' Phd At `different' University

Steelworks boss Robert Nightingale was a graduating metallurgy student when he received the first medal ever given by the then-fledgling Wollongong University in 1975. The car park was coalwash, there wasn't a bar on campus, and there was only one lecture hall. Yesterday he received his PhD in

Set For The Challenge

COCKLE Creek has dramatically changed in the 30 years since Ken Lane's metallurgical career first brought him to Newcastle. But when Mr Lane was given the opportunity to return to Boolaroo as Pasminco's general manger, he had no reservations. A graduate in metallurgy from the University of NSW

Tribute To A `great Guy'

Wollongong University vice-chancellor Professor Gerard Sutton paid tribute last night to his friend, ``great guy" George Edgar. Mr Edgar, who achieved his first science degree in metallurgy at the University of NSW's Wollongong college (Wollongong University since 1975), sits on the Univers

Cambridge Consultant Slated For Breach Of Ethics

The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy has come down hard on the consulting geologist who included a $1 billion-plus profit projection in a report on marine diamond hopeful Cambridge Gulf Exploration NL. The AusIMM's ethics committee said the December 1993 report on the diamond

Bid To Codify Mining Valuation Methods

The contentious issue of valuing mining and exploration properties is to come under close scrutiny at a conference organised by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in Sydney next month. The institute, in conjunction with the Mineral Industry Consultants Association, is hoping som

Ralph To Head Mining Body

The former chief executive of CRA, Mr John Ralph, has been elected president of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for 1996. Mr Ralph, who remains deputy chairman of CRA and deputy chairman of the Commonwealth Bank, is also president of the Business Council of Australia and presiden

Mining Institute Aims For Code On Diamonds

The bull market for diamond explorers has prompted the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy to investigate a reporting code for the industry. A committee has been formed to devise a code to remove much of the uncertainty in the reporting of exploration results. A code for the non-dia

Defend Industry, Miners Told

Australia's mining industry needed to defend itself more vigorously against concerns raised by Aboriginal and environmental groups, according to the leading academic, Professor Geoffrey Blainey. Professor Blainey told the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy's centenary conference in

Ford Unleashes Its New V8 Engine

FORD'S long-awaited redesign of the V8 engine has been unveiled in the USA with a mass of metallurgy, valves and camshafts that are a world away from the old pushrod thumper. So advanced is this aluminium-block V8 that the name "Romeo" seems destined to join Cleveland and Windso

Arrests Remembered

SIR: On the 51st anniversary of the arrest by the Gestapo of the staff of the Krakow universities, including 21 professors of our Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, which took place on November 6, 1939, we would like to express our sincere gratitude for your condemnation of that action expressed

Reporting Standards Tightened

From next year Australian mining companies will have to comply with the toughest reserve-reporting standards in the world. A committee of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Australian Mining Industry Council has published a code of strict reserve-reporting standards,

Metallurgy

SCIENTISTS and engineers specialising in chemical and process metallurgy may work in mining companies, steelworks and other smelters concerned with the winning of metals by high temperature smelting or by leaching precipitation. They may be concerned with the operation of the plant or they may be e