About this role
The incumbent will support critical minerals research projects by conducting laboratory and pilot-scale mineral processing and extractive metallurgy test work. Responsibilities include preparing and characterizing samples; operating, calibrating, and maintaining mineral processing equipment; performing comminution, flotation, gravity separation, magnetic separation, dewatering, leaching, solvent extraction, precipitation, and other beneficiation or hydrometallurgical tests. The incumbent will collect, validate, analyze, and interpret experimental data, perform mass balance and metallurgical accounting calculations, prepare samples for chemical and mineralogical analyses, and accurately document test procedures and results.
Additional duties include assisting with the development and optimization of mineral processing and metallurgical flowsheets, troubleshooting equipment and test procedures, managing reagents and consumables, and ensuring compliance with all health, safety, en