Chapter 10
I 1. Introduction
II 2. The Role Of Technology
III 3. Some Highlights Of Australian Minerals Technology
IV 4. Other Technological Achievements (in brief)
i Manganese
ii Tin
iii Tungsten
iv Tantalum
v Uranium
vi Gallium
vii Lithium
viii Silicon
ix Platinum
x Rare Earths
xi Phosphate
xii Diamonds
V 5. Export Of Technology
VI 6. Education And Research
VII 7. The Scientific Societies
VIII 8. Conclusion
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Tungsten
Treatment of both wolfram and scheelite ores has produced many technical innovations, including the combination of gravity and flotation and chemical upgrading of the scheelite ore of King Island, Tas., and the extensive and sophisticated series of photometric ore sorters in the gravity and magnetic separation circuit of Queensland Wolfram at Mount Carbine. Australian source material was the basis of a highly creditable achievement in the Metallurgy Department of Melbourne University during the Second World War where ductile tungsten was produced for the munitions establishment by a small group led by Professor J. Neill Greenwood. Current Australian output of tungsten mineral products amounts to 12 per cent of free world production, and 80 per cent is exported.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - University of Melbourne. School of Metallurgy
People in Bright Sparcs - Greenwood, Prof. Neill
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