Our Capabilities and Expertise - How can we help answer your resource and energy needs?
IMER's researchers offer a wide range of insight into issues and factors relating to mineral and energy resources sectors.
- Specific Project collaboration - researchers work on a specific project which meets a company's needs. Suitable for larger research projects with clearly-defined objectives and budgets with negotiated ownership of intellectual property between the parties.
- Consultancy - highly-skilled researchers and PhD postgraduate students may be available on a consultancy basis with access to specialised equipment.
- Collaboration - involving leveraging government funds and partnerships.
- Partnerships - additional benefits are available for longer-term collaborative opportunities. Industry Partnerships are structured in a range of tiers to maximise benefit and ensure clear and transparent commitment and responsibility by both partners.
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Fossil and renewable-energy systems, including geothermal
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Corrosion and scaling in geothermal, mineral and energy systems
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Kinetics, equilibria and transformations of mineral deposits
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Single and multiphase flows in porous materials and pipelines
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Energy and combustion science related to mineral thermal processing
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Heat transfer related to improved efficiency in thermal cycles
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Heat transfer related to mineral processing
- Thermal cycles for energy from Geothermal and other resources
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Ecological and environmental impacts of mining
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Habitat restoration, revegetation
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Mining rehabilitation and ecological impacts of mining/mineral exploration
- Rapid evolution of plants in novel habitats, including mine sites
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Physiochemical experiments on hydrothermal fluids and ore deposit formation
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Mineral equilibria modelling and mineral crystal chemistry
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Geochemistry and Geochronology
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Tectonic synthesis and Thermal modelling
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Geophysical imaging and modelling
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Assessment of economic structure and Cost Benefit analysis
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Environmental and natural resource economics
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International resources trade and development
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Issues impacting upon investment and job creation
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Project and policy evaluation and econometrics
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Contract and property law
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Environmental law, including planning, environmental protection and water law
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Legal aspects of the promotion and development of renewable energy resources and energy efficiency
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Mining, energy and natural resources law
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Native title law
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Geostatistics and mineral resource/reserve estimation
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Mineral economics, project evaluation and risk assessment
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Mining geomechanics, fluid flow through rock masses
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Optimal mine planning, design and production scheduling
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Spatial geological/geotechnical modelling for rock and soils
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3D modelling and visualisation for mines & associated infrastructure
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Control and robotics
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Simulation for training and OH&S applications
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Surveillance and security technologies for mine safety
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Visual technologies for mineral identification
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Enhanced Oil Recovery
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Formation damage
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Portfolio Management
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Reservoir Engineering
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Basin Tectonics
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Geological storage of CO2
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Petroleum Geomechanics
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Reservoir analogues and characterisation
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Sequence and Seismic Stratigraphy
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For more information or to get in contact with us on how we can assist your organisation email us at:
imer@adelaide.edu.au or call +61 8 8303 1448
