The following persons and organisations have provided assistance to the UNSW School of Mining Engineering. This assistance has contributed to enhancing the learning process and educational experience of students in the mining engineering program. Ultimately the improved quality of education will contribute to the sustainability of the mining industry and ensure the future needs of the community for minerals will be met. The various contributors have been grouped according to the nature of their contribution.

• Course or Program Contributors
• Infrastructure
• Prizes
• Scholarships
• Benefical Fund

Course or Program Contributors

• Mine Planning
  • MineConsult Ltd: for specialist lectures to students in Year 4 on mine planning
  • Surpac Minex Group Pty Ltd: for specialist lectures on mine planning to students in Years 2, 3 & 4
• Materials Handling Systems
• Gulf Conveyors Holdings Pty Ltd: for specialist lecture on design of conveyor systems to students in Year 3

• Undergraduate Student Field Studies
• Cadia Hill Gold Mine: for site presentations and access to operations by Year 1 students
• NorthParkes Mine: for site presentations and access to operations by Year 1 students
• Ulan Coal Mine: for site presentations and access to operations by Year 1 students
• Perilya Broken Hill Ltd: for hosting site visits by students in Year 2 of the mining program.
• Department of Primary Industries: for assisting in the Year 2 field excursions to the Broken Hill region.

• Mine Safety
• NSW Minerals Council: for sponsorship of students in Year 3 to attend the annual NSW Mining Industry Occupational Health and Safety Conference

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Infrastructure

• Provision of Mine Design Software and training in
  • Combinatories: for supply of the MineMAX optimisation software
  • Maptek Pty Ltd: for the supply of Vulcan software package
  • Runge Pty Ltd: for supply of TALPAC and XPAC software
  • Surpac Minex Group Pty Ltd: for supply of MINEX software

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Prizes

• Barrick Gold Prize - awarded for best performance in the final year of the program
• Stan Sawyer Prize - awarded for best performance in an Honours thesis on a topic related to coal mining
• Mitsubishi Prize - awarded to a final year student for surface mining

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Scholarships

The following organisations have provided scholarships for students in the undergraduate mining engineering program. The scholarships provide support to students over the four year term of the degree program.

• University Co-op Scholarships
  • Scholarships providers for new students commencning 2006 include:
    • Anglo Coal Australia Pty Ltd.
    • Centennial Coal Co. Ltd
    • Excel Coal Ltd
    • Minesite Technologies Pty Ltd
    • Newcrest Mining Ltd.
    • Xstrata Coal Australia Pty Ltd (x2)
  • Scholarship providers for new students commencing 2005 covering period 2005-2008
    • Anglo Coal Australia Pty Ltd.
    • Centennial Coal Co. Ltd .
    • Newcrest Mining Ltd.
    • Northparkes Mines.
    • RioTinto Coal.
    • Xstrata Coal Australia Pty Ltd (x2)
  • Scholarship providers for new students commencing 2004 covering period 2004-2007
    • Anglo Coal Australia Pty Ltd
    • Centennial Coal Co. Ltd
    • Excel Mining Pty Ltd
    • Xstrata Coal Australia Pty Ltd
  • Scholarship providers for new students commencing 2003 covering period 2003-2006
    • Anglo Coal Australia Pty Ltd
    • Coal & Allied Industries Ltd
    • Minesite Technologies Pty Ltd
    • Mt Arthur Coal Pty Ltd
    • Xstrata Coal Australia Pty Ltd (x2)
  • Scholarship providers for new students commencing 2002 covering period 2002-2005
• Anglo Coal Australia Pty Ltd
• Centennial Coal Co. Ltd
• Xstrata Coal Australia Pty Ltd

• Rural Scholarships
  • Scholarship providers for new new students commencing 2006 includes:
    • BMA
    • Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd
    • Xstrata Coal Australia Pty Ltd (x2)
    • Dean of Engineering
  • Scholarships providers for new students commencing 2005 covering period 2005-2008
    • BMA
    • Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd
    • Xstrata Coal Australia Pty Ltd
  • Scholarships providers for new students commencing 2004 covering period 2004-2007
    • Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd
• Additional Scholarships
• Scholarship providers for new new students commencing 2006 includes:
  • Comalco Aluminium Ltd
  • Felix Resources (x2)
  • Rio Tinto Coal
  • Xstrata NQ

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Beneficial Fund

• Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd. An educational fund established to support the mining engineering program at UNSW. Specifically, the Fund will provide for on an annual basis:
  • Mitsubishi Lecture series in surface mining;
  • provision for Rural Scholarship;
  • prize for an undergraduate student on a topic related to surface mining; and
  • support for series of lectures suitable for distance education.

  In 2005 the fund was significantly expanded to support the educational programs in the School.

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