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A World-Leading Mining Research Centre based at UQ will play a leading role alongside industry and government in advancing Australia's largest export industry.
In March the Commonwealth Government re-funded CRCMining (formerly the Cooperative Research Centre for Mining Technology and Equipment) for seven years.
CRCMining CEO Professor Mike Hood said the Centre's work was vital to the mining industry, which accounted for more than five percent of the GDP and constituted about 35 percent of Australian export products and services.
"Mining is a high technology industry that underpins the Australian economy," he said.
"The re-funded and renewed Centre, already internationally recognised, will now be in a stronger position to research, develop and deliver valuable mining technologies to improve mining safety and contribute to the industry's bottom line."
Professor Hood said CRCMining had developed a new research program built on previous strengths but now aiming to improve the performance of the entire mining system.
"The Centre has already pioneered a number of breakthrough technologies, most notably the Universal Dragline System," he said.
"This innovative system will typically increase dragline productivity by 15 percent and has won several industry awards."
