CEEC DIRECTOR
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Dr Christopher Greet is a Metallurgical Engineer with over 40 years industrial experience in foundries and mineral processing operations across the world. Since 2003, he has been employed by Magotteaux Australia, where he leads a team of metallurgists and technicians investigating the impact of grinding media composition on pulp and surface chemistry ‒ and how this impacts downstream metallurgy. The experimental methodology developed is robust and has led to many plant trials globally.
As the leader of the technical team Dr Greet was intimately involved in developing business cases with the sales team to convert plants from one grinding media alloy to another. His knowledge and expertise are now sort after by operators to help understand the pulp chemistry of their systems and how it might be changed to yield improved metallurgical outcomes.
The development of the first MagoPulp in 2008 has gave Dr Greet experience in design and testing new sensors in mineral processing plants. It has also given him insight into what is needed to ensure that the data generated by a new sensor can be integrated into a control system and used effectively. New numbers do not always guarantee the sensor will be used by operations. Considerable thought needs to be given by those developing a sensor on how the data should be presented and subsequently effectively employed in a concentrator operation such that
metallurgical performance is optimised and improved.
Throughout his career Dr Greet has engaged with both the University of South Australia and The University of Adelaide at a number of levels: As a sponsor of the AMIRA P260 Series of projects, and now the Advanced Flotation Project; as a user of Universities research facilities investigating the surface chemistry of problematic minerals during flotation; and as an Adjunct Professor mentoring and offering industrial advice to post graduate students. More recently Dr Greet has been an active participant in the PRIF and Training Centre Projects, collaborative efforts between the two universities and industry.
Dr Greet has also published numerous papers describing his work, particularly showing the linkage between robust laboratory studies and how they can be converted to positive outcomes in the plant. He is also the editor of “Flotation Plant Optimisation”, a handbook that provides practical knowledge on how to diagnose problems in flotation concentrators.
Dr Greet, a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for over 40 years, is now a Director, and a member the AusIMM’s Metallurgical Society Committee.
