The latest news related to the CMXUC

Highlights for the year 2007

• Total full time staff increase to 6, with the employment of Doctor Katherine Selway and Michelle Goryniuk.

• Doctor Guillaume Backé has been offered and accepted a 12-month extension to his contract, starting in January 2008. Doctor Guillaume Backé will continue his work on the stratigraphic and structural architecture of the Adelaidean Basin, providing important constraints for mineral and geothermal exploration.

• Doctor Caroline Forbes has won a DEST Endeavour Research Fellowship, which will take her to Kochi University in Japan for 6 months from September 2009.

• CMXUC and PIRSA receives $430,000 grant to study tectonics and mineral potential of the Northern Gawler Craton. Total external research funding generated by CMXUC now exceeds $1M in less than 2 years operating.

• CMXUC and PIRSA Stuart Corridor seismic project ranked #1 of AuScope deep seismic proposals.

• CMXUC will co-ordinate MTEC Minerals Geoscience Honours Program, involving 8 universities across the country in 2008. The program for 2008.

• CMXUC is on the web: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/cmxuc

• In 2007 Industry Partners and Collaborators included:

Adelaide Resources	Hillgrove Resources
Anglo American	Iluka
Barrick Australia Pacific	Maximus Resources
BHP Billiton	Monash University
Copper Range	Oxiana - Prominent Hill
CSIRO	Perilya
Department of Primary Industry - Vic.	PIRSA
Department of Primary Resources - NSW	Torrens Energy
Dominion Gold Operations	Teck Cominco Australia
Geoscience Australia	Terramin
Heathgate Resources

• Doctor Graham Baines has won a 3 year Australian Research Council APD(I) fellowship based at The University of Adelaide as part of the CMXUC/Monash University/PIRSA ARC Linkage grant “Unearthing the marginal terranes of the South Australian Craton: Keystone of Proterozoic Australia“. Doctor Graham Baines resigned from his previous contract to take up the fellowship in early 2008.