Mining Magazine July 2017 | Page 14

TECHNOLOGY
mining that actually make it work .
How did your background in geology prime you for work on the IMP @ CT project ? I ’ ve been through several years of thinking about these issues and talking to a lot of people from a lot of different perspectives , from the raw material producers to the end product manufacturers . That ’ s not often something we would do as geologists - there does seem to be a little bit of a disconnect between the raw material production and manufacturing .
Several years of talking to a lot of related people across the value chain has put me in a good position to link to all of the disparate partners that are in this consortium , because this consortium is very much about taking this whole system to you , and thinking , “ if you can actually deal with
14 July 2017