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Resources Industry | Mining | Mineral | Geomatics - Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

The resources sector is a key driver of Australia's economy, making up almost half of Australia's total export earnings. Innovation and developments in this sector enable participants to stay competitive in international markets. We recognise that developments in this sector often result from a multidisciplinary approach to innovation.

Our Resources Industry Team therefore brings together IP professionals from a variety of technical backgrounds to service the intellectual property needs of clients operating in this thriving area.

Our Resources Industry Team acts for clients ranging from individual inventors to small and medium businesses, large Australian research institutions and multi-nationals.

Our highly qualified and experienced team has an established track record across a wide spectrum of exploration, extraction, processing, and minerals, metallurgy and petroleum technologies including:

  • Mineral extraction processes
  • Smelting technologies and secondary processing
  • Separation processes
  • Petroleum technology, processing and equipment
  • Processing and mining software including control system software
  • Surface chemistry
  • Process and mechanical engineering
  • Mineral leaching processes
  • Geological exploration
  • Geomatics
  • Computer systems and apparatus for gathering and processing of geographic information
  • Mining and process control systems
  • Materials science and engineering
  • Exploration, mining and drilling devices and equipment
  • General engineering apparatus and equipment
  • Intrinsically safe computer hardware

Our Resources Industry Team is actively involved in industry groups such as AusIMM, IMEA and Austmine.

For a copy of our Resources brochure, click here.