Parker Centre

The Parker Centre was established as the AJ Parker CRC for Hydrometallurgy in 1992 in Perth (WA) under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Programme. In 1999, its research and technology transfer successes gained the Parker Centre a second seven years of funding from the CRC Programme. In July 2005, the third incarnation... of the Parker Centre, the Parker CRC for Integrated Hydrometallurgy Solutions, began extending its predecessors' successful work addressing the needs of the Australian and international minerals industries. Parker Centre III has a minimum funding of A$20 million from the CRC Programme, and A$15 million committed investment by its Industry Participants, over seven years. The current Core Participants in the Centre are CSIRO Minerals, Curtin University of Technology, Murdoch University, the University of Queensland and ten companies operating in the minerals industry. There are also 12 Supporting Participants, including mineral processing companies, Central TAFE, the Minerals Council of Australia, the WA Department of Industry and Resources and industry suppliers. From a small group of researchers working in different organisations with limited collaboration in 1992, the Parker Centre has grown to become a world-leading hydrometallurgical research organisation. The Parker Centre has made important research advances in many aspects of hydrometallurgy (examples of research highlights). The outputs of the Centre's work have been applied widely throughout Australia and overseas. The independently estimated value (delivered and expected) of the adoption of the Centre's research outputs by industry clients from the Centre's establishment in 1992 to 2004 totals over A$540 million (net present value). The Centre brings together a world-class team of researchers with diverse yet complementary skills, talents and backgrounds who carry out fundamental and applied research on behalf of the minerals industry, at laboratory and pilot scales and also at operating sites. The Centre ...Read More