Minerals Institute of Western Australia

Minerals Process Engineer

Minerals process engineers transform low value, impure raw materials into commercially valuable products. The main sources of these raw materials are low grade minerals, by-products of other processing operations and recycled materials.

• Minerals process engineers may perform the following tasks:
• study and apply chemical and process metallurgy techniques;
• coordinate recovery of samples for laboratory analysis and testing;
• choose and operate a combination of treatments to produce the desired quality of products at optimum efficiency; and
• prepare cost budgets of operations to evaluate economic feasibility of processes.

Minerals process engineers are employed in all stages of raw materials processing:

• process design and development;
• process control and management; and
• pure and applied research.

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Education and Training:

QLD 
Degree Courses
University of Queensland - St Lucia Campus

WA
Degree Courses
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