CSIRO Snr Principal Research Leader Appointed Alcore GM
Sydney, Jan 24, 2020 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Australian Bauxite Limited (
ASX:ABX) (A7B:FRA) is pleased to advise that Dr Mark Cooksey has been appointed General Manager of ALCORE Limited (Alcore). The appointment commences 1 February 2020 for a sixmonth engagement.
- Mark Cooksey appointed General Manager of Australian Bauxite Limited's 90%-owned subsidiary, Alcore
- Dr Cooksey has been granted 6 months leave from CSIRO to assist Alcore to commercialise development of aluminium fluoride (AlF3) production (see Figures 1 to 3*)
Dr. Cooksey comes to Alcore with an impressive history in research, engineering and commercialising new developments in the Aluminium industry since 1997.
Mark commenced his professional career as a Research Engineer in aluminium smelting with Comalco (now Rio Tinto Alcan) in 1997 and became senior research engineer in 2000 before achieving six sigma black belt at Gladstone, Queensland in 2002.
He joined the CSIRO in 2004 as Senior Research Engineer and became Senior Principal Research Leader at the CSIRO in 2016.
Mark Cooksey holds a PhD (Chemicals & Materials Engineering), Bachelor of Engineering (Materials - First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Science (Information Technology and Applied Mathematics). He has worked closely with the aluminium and other metal industries and his significant experience in commercialising new technologies and processes will be a solid base for Alcore to expand into the next phase of development.
Welcoming Dr Cooksey, Ian Levy, Australian Bauxite's CEO and Managing Director, commented: "Mark joins Alcore at an opportune time as Alcore develops from laboratory research to large scale production. Alcore needs the highly skilled and experienced leadership that Mark can provide.
"These are exciting times for Australian Bauxite as our bauxite team has begun the approval and development process for our flagship bauxite mine at Binjour in QLD and our technology subsidiary, Alcore develops the Alcore refining process to make aluminium fluoride (AlF3) for sale to aluminium smelters."
*To view tables and figures, please visit:
https://abnnewswire.net/lnk/53STJ37H
About ABx Group Limited
ABx Group Limited (ABx) (ASX:ABX) is a uniquely positioned Australian company delivering materials for a cleaner future.
The three priority projects are:
- Heavy rare earths: Supplying light and heavy rare earths from Tasmania into Western supply chains
o Processing Options Analysis conducted in partnership with external experts
- Clean fluorine chemical production: Producing industrial chemicals from aluminium smelter by-product (ALCORE)
o Continuous pilot plant under construction in Bell Bay, Tasmania
- Near-term bauxite production: Mining bauxite resources for the aluminium, cement and fertiliser industries
o Agreements executed with Good Importing International for bauxite projects in Queensland and New South Wales, and $2.7 million initial payment has been received
o Approvals well advanced for DL130 bauxite project in northern Tasmania
ABx endorses best practices on agricultural land and strives to leave land and environment better than we find it. We only operate where welcomed.
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