Dr Bambang PS Brodjonegoro, (Indonesia’s Minister of National Development Planning), Professor Sangkot Marzuki (President of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences), Senator the Hon. Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific) and Professor Andrew Holmes (President of the Australian Academy of Science) (photo credit: Bradley Cummings)
Sixty of Australia’s big-thinking young geoscientists have identified how to ensure this country continues to be a powerhouse of mining for at least the next century.
The report of a Think Tank on the future of resource discovery and utilisation held at the Australian Academy of Science late last year was launched by the Minister for Resources and Energy, The Hon Martin Ferguson, today at the Shine Dome in Gordon Street, Canberra at 3 pm. Read More about Ensuring Australia’s mining future
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We know more about the surface of Mars than we do of the earth beneath our feet. Australian earth scientists are calling for a national program to map our country – 300 metres down under.