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Contents:

• Parker Centre III's research could transform the minerals industry
  The third incarnation of the Parker Centre, the Parker CRC for Integrated Hydrometallurgy Solutions, will begin extending its predecessors’ successful work for the minerals industry from July this year. A new focus on...
  
  
  
• Working together to recycle metals from e-waste and batteries
  The Parker Centre’s metals recycling workshop brought 50 industry and government representatives and researchers together to discuss the challenges involved in dealing with Australia’s growing volumes of unwanted electronic products (e-waste) and spent batteries. "The workshop featured...
  
  
  
• Partnering schools on recycling
  The Parker Centre has further strengthened its relationship with two Western Australian high schools by going into partnership on two recycling projects funded by the Australian Government. The projects, “Identifying and Processing E-Waste” (involving Corpus Christi College) and “Dispose of Properly: Dry Cell Battery Recycling” (involving All Saints’ College)...
  
  
  
• Collaboration with Gravity Man yields gold
  Over the last five and a half years, Associate Professor André Laplante from McGill University in Canada and Parker Centre gold researchers have worked together to increase gold recoveries in the gold industry and run educational workshops for industry professionals. Professor Laplante is an internationally recognised expert in gravity methods for recovering gold...