Corporate Body

Australian Mineral Industries Research Association Limited (AMIRA) (1959 - )

From
1959
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Resources, Metallurgy and Mineralogy or mining
Alternative Names
  • AMIRA (Acronym)
Website
https://amira.global/
Reference No
ACN: 004 448 266
Location
Parkville, Victoria

Summary

The Australian Mineral Industries Research Association Limited (AMIRA) was established in 1959. It is an independent not-for-profit organisation that facilitates collaborative transformational research and development, innovation and implementation for the benefit of society and its members from the resources industry. It has helped research and implement many major innovative mineral processes and systems.

AMIRA does not have laboratories of its own. It brings together the world's best researchers in geology, mining and minerals processing with existing research facilities and industry sponsors, to make it the pre-eminent minerals research organisation in the world.

In a typical year some 40 laboratories or reference bodies may be engaged in AMIRA projects; sponsors of individual projects vary in number but have been as many as 26 in projects of wide interest such as mine support, wire ropes testing, comminution, abrasion resistant materials or computer applications.

Past successful innovations include the 1973 Prince Philip award winning prize for industrial design, that used radioisotope probes for on-stream analysis of ore and coal on conveyor belts, and mineral and coal slurries.

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Chronology

1973
Award - Prince Philip award for industrial design - for the development of a radio-isotope on-stream analysis system for the mining industry. [AMIRA was associated with its design and development]
1992
Award - Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Industry - Australian Mineral Industries Research Association Limited: for successful management and operations of AMIRA through providing quality development and management of jointly funded research projects for the benefit of the Association's members

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Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes

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