The Parker Centre has recognised the collaborative research efforts of the Centre’s “Impacts of Mineralogy on Hydrometallurgy” project team and the PhD research of former student Dr Geoffrey Carter. The “Impacts of Mineralogy on Hydrometallurgy” project, involving researchers from CSIRO and Curtin University of Technology, has been awarded the 2009 Parker Centre Award for Research Collaboration. The award acknowledges the most effective team collaboration within the Centre in a CRC Program-funded research project during the preceding year. The award comes with a $5000 prize to be shared between the team.