Richard Yong
I am the Team Leader of the Magnetic Resonance Development Team in the Sensing and Sorting Program. Our Team's goal is to develop Magnetic Resonance (MR) technology for the minerals, mining and security industry for bulk detection of commercially relevant minerals. Our main focus to date has been the measurement of the copper mineral chalcopyrite which is one of the most common copper minerals found in the Earth's crust. Examples of analysers that we have developed include the MR Analyser for on-belt sorting which is the primary technology of the Joint-Venture company NextOre. We also have a number of other development projects including the measurement of chalcopyrite on mine haul trucks and mine benches.
Our fundamental work is underpinned by experimental work in the laboratory where we develop and perfect our measurement techniques. We can measure a large suite of minerals including copper sulphides (chalcopyrite, covellite, chalcocite etc.), arsenic sulphides (arsenopyrite, lollingite, realgar, orpiment etc.), iron oxides (magnetite, heamatite, pyrrhotite etc.) and nitrogen bearing materials such as ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate and other oxidisers.
My primary expertise is in the area of magnetic resonance hardware and experimental design. This includes an expertise in magnetic resonance physics and RF engineering. This expertise has been honed in the laboratory where we construct every aspect of our analysers.
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