SMI Seminar Series

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 28 August 2015

Time:

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Room:

Lecture Theatre

UQ Location:

Isles Road, Indooroopilly (Indooroopilly)

Event category(s):

Full Description:: The Sustainable Minerals Institute will host a seminar by Dr David Moore at its Indooroopilly site titled 'From Thesis to Thesis'. Fifty-three years ago David Moore was a foundation post-graduate student, supervised by Professor Alban Lynch, in the inaugural Mineral Processing research project, which became a highly successful long-term core project for the JKMRC. He completed his thesis, A Mathematical Analysis of Mineral Breakage, in 1964 soon after he entered Oxford University as the Queensland Rhodes scholar. After he retired in 2009 following a diverse career in the minerals industry he embarked upon a very different second PhD through Swinburne University of Technology. 50 years after his first thesis he submitted Three Queensland Premiers and the Mungana Scandal, focusing on the Chillagoe-Mungana story which holds a unique place in Queensland’s mining and political history. The presentation, From Thesis to Thesis, firstly contrasts David Moore’s unusual experiences with both theses. It then uses conclusions from the second thesis as a reminder of the major impact of cycles in the minerals industry and the unusual situation the industry now faces.