 Professor Adair is originally from the United Kingdom. Initially a geologist by training, he joined the South African Platinum Industry in the late 1980s. Here he specialized primarily in the application of quantitative mineralogical techniques to help resolve mineral processing issues in a variety of concentrators. In 1992 he joined CSIRO at the Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies in Pinjarra Hills. His primary responsibilities related as Program Manager for several CSIRO Minerals groups, focused on the application of advanced analytical tools for the Minerals and Mining industry. For the past eight years he has worked for the Rio Tinto group with a technical brief ranging from acoustic control in grinding circuits, the provision of mineral specific reagents and on line sensors in flotation systems and the application of LCA to circuit design and optimization. He recently returned from a three year secondment at Kennecott Utah Copper to take up his current role as Director of the JKMRC.
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