A000436 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

All key entry types: Awards; Concepts; Corporate Bodies (Organisations); Cultural Artefacts; People; etc

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2000-05-11 human Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes updated 2026-03-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000436b.htm ACN: 004 448 266 corporateBody Australian Mineral Industries Research Association Limited (AMIRA) AACR2 AMIRA 1959 Start Place Parkville, Victoria, Australia Location Parkville, Victoria Resources Metallurgy Mineralogy or Mining The Australian Mineral Industries Research Association Limited (AMIRA) was established in 1959. It is an independent not-for-profit organisation that facilitates collaborative transformational research and development, innovation and implementation for the benefit of society and its members from the resources industry. It has helped research and implement many major innovative mineral processes and systems. AMIRA does not have laboratories of its own. It brings together the world's best researchers in geology, mining and minerals processing with existing research facilities and industry sponsors, to make it the pre-eminent minerals research organisation in the world. In a typical year some 40 laboratories or reference bodies may be engaged in AMIRA projects; sponsors of individual projects vary in number but have been as many as 26 in projects of wide interest such as mine support, wire ropes testing, comminution, abrasion resistant materials or computer applications. Past successful innovations include the 1973 Prince Philip award winning prize for industrial design, that used radioisotope probes for on-stream analysis of ore and coal on conveyor belts, and mineral and coal slurries. 1973 1973 Award - Prince Philip award for industrial design - for the development of a radio-isotope on-stream analysis system for the mining industry. [AMIRA was associated with its design and development] 1992 1992 Award - Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Industry - Australian Mineral Industries Research Association Limited: for successful management and operations of AMIRA through providing quality development and management of jointly funded research projects for the benefit of the Association's members CRC for Predictive Mineral Discovery (2001 - 2008) G K Williams CRC for Extractive Metallurgy (1991 - 2001) CRC for Australian Mineral Exploration Technologies (1992 - 2000) A. J. Parker CRC for Hydrometallurgy (1992 - 2005) Australian Mineral Development Laboratories (AMDEL) (1959 - 1987)

Under the AMDEL Act, AMIRA appointed 3 of the 7 AMDEL Councillors

 MIM Holdings Ltd (1970 - 2003)

Early collaborator with AMIRA involved in collaborative research on mineral processes

 Clark, Gordon Colvin Lindesay (Lindesay) (1896 - 1986)

Councillor

 May, James Richard (Jim) (1934 - 2023)

Chief Executive Officer, 1968 - 1994

 Cucuzza, Guiseppe (Joe) (1952 - 2022)

Managing Director 2012 - 2019

 Mawby, Maurice Alan Edgar (1904 - 1977)

Inaugural President 1959 -

 National Science Centre (1967 - 1992)

AMIRA had its offices at the National Science Centre c1968 - c1991

 Baas Becking Geobiological Laboratory (c. 1968 - c. 1985)

Trove

 'Australian Mineral Industries Research Association Limited (AMIRA)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Australian Mineral Industries Research Association Limited (AMIRA) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Vale: Joe Cucuzza, MD of AMIRA Ltd and a past President of the ASEG Asten, Michael Vale: Joe Cucuzza, MD of AMIRA Ltd and a past President of the ASEG 2023 Preview 222 10-11 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000