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) started as a bauxite miner in Tasmania in 2014 & controls the Eastern Australian Bauxite Province. In 2020 to 2023, ABx also discovered Australia’s only true ionic adsorption clay Rare Earth Elements resource at Deep Leads in pine plantations 40km west of Launceston with a JORC-compliant resource of 89 million tonnes from only 29% of the mineralised outline, averaging 844 ppm total rare earth oxides that is the most enriched in the critically important rare earths, Dy and Tb, of any Australian REE deposit.
ABx has also developed a proprietary technology to produce fluorine chemicals from an aluminium smelter waste product and return the fluorine back into the smelters, thus reducing reliance on imported aluminium fluoride.
ABx has committed a large proportion of its expenditure into Research and Development and has found ways to capitalise on the main strengths of its bauxite type which is very clean, free of all deleterious elements and can be separated into different product streams using physical, chemical and geophysical methods. It has produced and marketed specialist bauxite products for the manufacturers of fertiliser, cement with high late strength for major infrastructure such as bridges and is in the advanced stages of approvals for production of metallurgical bauxite from its Binjour Bauxite deposit with JORC-compliant resources of 37 million tonnes of bauxite, in a joint development with a Chinese-focussed Australian trading company Good Importing International.
ABx is also preparing to produce fertiliser grade and cement grade bauxite from its DL130 bauxite quarry in northern Tasmania, 40km west of Launceston. This quarry is sited in the middle of the large Deep Leads REE deposit and may one day be a site for heap leaching of the REE using a low-cost, benign leachate with the same acidity as apple juice or tea.
ABx endorses best practices on agricultural land, strives to leave land and environment better than we find it. We only operate where welcomed.
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