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Nickel is worth more than a five cent coin

By Emily Lehmann Nickel seems to be the underdog of the metal world. While we have all heard of it, a casual ask-around among friends tells me that most people know little about its value and what it’s used for. Nickel is versatile because it mixes well with other metals to form alloys. It’s also...

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Megatrends: do we really need more from less?

By Stefan Hajkowicz, CSIRO This article is part of The Conversation’s series on megatrends. What are the compelling economic, social, environmental, political and technological changes Australia must grapple with over the coming decades? This series is based on the release of the CSIRO Futures report, Our Future World 2012. Today, Stefan discusses food and water...

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Worth the weight

For all of our readers sporting a wedding ring, here’s an interesting little tid bit you may not know – if it’s gold, it could weigh upwards of four tonnes – that could be how much ore, or rock, was dug out of the ground and processed to produce it. Now that the value of...

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Australia creates world’s first continental-scale mineral maps

The new suite of mineral maps will enable mining companies to increase the efficiency and viability of their exploration efforts. The world-first maps were generated from a ten-year archive of raw Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection (ASTER) data collected by NASA and the Japanese Government’s Japan Space Systems. CSIRO scientists have developed software that...

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Nickel is worth more than a five cent coin

Megatrends: do we really need more from less?

Worth the weight

Australia creates world’s first continental-scale mineral maps

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