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Booklet Outline:

INTRODUCTION:

• The Use of Minerals and Energy in Everyday Life
• The Role of Mining & Energy in the Australian Economy
• The Mining Industry at the End of the 20th Century
• CRCs and the Mining and Energy Sector

EXPLORATION:
CRC for Landscape Evolution & Mineral Exploration

• Mapping a Weathered Land's Future - Researching the regolith will help unearth hidden mineral wealth and aid landcare.
• Chemical Clues to Buried Wealth - Hidden gold can be tracked down by finding its known chemical associates.

CRC for Australian Mineral Exploration Technologies

• How to Find the Gold Mine that Lasseter Lost - New airborne mineral exploration system probes deep underground.
• Geophysicists Rival Superman - Computer software translates airborne exploration data into 3D images of the earth.

Australian Geodynamics CRC

• Looking into the Earth to Find Mineral Riches - Scientists are developing tools to visualise the Earth's internal structure and how it has changed over time.
• Entering the Fourth Dimension - Time - Tracking Australia's geological evolution through time strikes gold.

Australian Petroleum CRC

• Ancient Evidence Aids Today's Oil Explorers - Researchers help in the discovery of a new oil field.
• There's Gas in the Hidden Sands of the Yampi Shelf - A new computer technique successfully predicts the location of gas-bearing sand over two kilometres below the sea bed of Australia's northwest continental shelf.

MINING:
CRC for Mining Technology & Equipment

• New Drilling Technology to Boost Mining Safety - Better drills will make underground coal mines safer to work in and may tap into a new energy source.
• Revolution in Rock Excavation - Breakthrough technology for excavating strong rock in a safe and surgically precise manner.

PROCESSING:
GK Williams CRC for Extractive Metallurgy

• International Networking a Key to Research Success - Australia's smelting research in the international context.
• Improving Smelting for a Better Environment - A new copper making process offers considerable environmental and economic benefits over conventional smelting processes.

AJ Parker CRC for Hydrometallurgy

• Bacteria's Appetite of Thiocyanate Cleans Up Waste Water - A new process uses bacteria to break down the toxic effluent produced by gold extraction from sulphide ores.
• Opening a Window on Thickeners - The latest knowledge about thickeners will be available on the menu of a new CD-ROM.

USING COAL CLEANLY:
CRC for Power Generation from Low-Rank Coal

• A Cleaner, Brighter Future for Brown Coal - New combustion technology could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Australia and worldwide.

CRC for Black Coal Utilisation

• Clean But Mean! - Turning coal into gas could be the key to sustainable electricity generation.
• Preventing the Tail from Wagging the Dog - Research is discovering how to minimise the damage the ashy remains of coal combustion cause in power stations.

RENEWABLE ENERGY ALTERNATIVES:
Australian CRC for Renewable Energy

• Learning Online - What do primary, secondary, tertiary and TAFE students all have in common?
• Power for the People in Remote Areas - Remote Area Power Supply (RAPS) systems are providing electricity to hundreds of remote communities and homesteads throughout Australia.