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Rio Tinto Creates Geotechnical Engineering Chair at University of New South Wales

Joanna Gaskell - Education Editor | March 14, 2012 | 4:50 pm Education 

Rio Tinto Northparkes Mines has established a professorial chair in geotechnical engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to enable underground mining and block caving research, reports Australian Mining. Head of UNSW School of Mining, Bruce Hebblewhite, explained...

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