Introduction

Welcome to the Western Australian School of Mines Research Website.

This website is created to present the most up-to-date information about research projects carried by academics and researchers at WASM and their collaborators. The contents of web pages presented at this website is dynamic. It is submitted and controlled directly by researchers involved into WASM research projects. Please visit our site frequently to get the most up-to-date info about progress and results of our research. The site is also a source of information for postgraduate students.

About us

Since its foundation in 1902, the Western Australian School of Mines (WASM) has earned an international reputation as an important centre of mining education. WASM is the oldest constituent part of Curtin University of Technology.

The School offers a range of programs at doctoral, master's, bachelor's and associate degree level in such fields as mining engineering and mine surveying, mineral exploration and mining geology, extractive metallurgy, minerals engineering and mineral economics.

The main campus of WASM is in Kalgoorlie, the centre of the historic and famous Goldfields Region. This proximity to mining activity gives WASM graduates the opportunity to gain a high quality education that combines practical and theoretical elements effectively.

Both government and the mining industry are strong supporters of current research activities that include links with the Australian Centre for Geomechanics, the A.J. Parker Cooperative Research Centre for Hydrometallurgy and the Key Centre for Resource Exploration.

Research groups

We divide ourself into research groups focusing at:

• Gold Metallurgy
• Mine Planning and Surveying
• Mineral Economics
• Mining Equipment
• Mining Productivity
• Mining Rock Mechanics
• Nickel Hydrometallurgy

All groups collaborate between themself and also undertake common research projects.

Research Collaborators

WASM mining research groups work in partnership with world class collaborators such as ALCOA Australia Ltd, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Japan.

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