BScHons (Sheffield), PhD (Sheffield)

Leader of The Recovery Program

Career Summary

Steve Walters has extensive industry experience with over 25 years in the mineral exploration and applied research fields. This includes a variety of global roles as a Principal Geologist with BHP Minerals, four years within BHP Research and five years as an independent consultant working for many of the world’s major mining companies. His current role as leader of the Recovery program involves management of the AMIRA P843 geometallurgy project. This involves a major collaboration with the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) at the University of Queensland - a world-leader in mining and mineral processing research. To facilitate this, Steve is currently a 50:50 Joint Appointment between CODES and JKMRC.

Research Interests

Steve Walter's main areas of interest are sediment-hosted base metal deposits, the links between geology and mineral processing, and applications of micro-analytical technologies. Steve is internationally recognised for his research on metamorphosed Broken Hill-type Pb-Zn-Ag deposits and was a key member of the BHP Minerals team involved in the discovery and development of the world-class Cannington Ag-Pb-Zn deposit in NW Queensland, considered to be a prime example of the Broken Hill-type.

Research Areas:

• Program 4 - Recovery  Read More
• Program 5 - Technology  Read More

Full Publication List

Current and Supervised Project/s:

• F4.1 Early environmental characterisation of ores.
• F4.2 Geophysical properties as proxies for rock mass characterisation.
• L4.1 Geometallurgical mapping and mine modelling (GeMIII).