Mark Drechsler, a Director of CBSM with over 40 years of industry experience has started a PhD at the University of South Australia researching the energy and mineral processing benefits of our innovative comminution technology called GRolls®.

Undertaking a PhD on our GRolls® technology supports our commercialisation pathway by providing access to research and industry partners that are also committed to improving technical knowledge within our industry.

I will be using our lab scale GRolls® unit located at Mawson Lakes to crush a wide range of industry supplied feed material during my PhD as well as supporting many other research programs being undertaken at UniSA.

Over the next three years I believe that my research program can confirm the potential that our GRolls® technology can reduce energy consumption, eliminate media, work in both wet and dry flow sheets and improve grade recovery.

Furthermore, the high compression and shear provided by the GRolls® has the potential to enhance recovery and grade in subsequent processing by increasing exposure of the valuable mineral.

We are seeking industry support in the provision of a variety of feed materials to confirm the performance of the GRolls® technology.