New global partnership to secure future of renewable energy 19 Jan 2021 | 3 mins Developing new methods to accurately locate high quality deposits of copper and reduce the environmental impact of mining is the focus of a new partnership between The University of Western Australia, BHP and the University of Bristol. Professor Steffen Hagemann, Professor Marco Fiorentini and Professor Tony Kemp from UWA’s Centre for Exploration Targeting will lead a team of researchers who will analyse key processes responsible for the grouping of elusive metals in the Earth’s crust. Professor Steffen Hagemann, Professor Tony Kemp and Professor Marco Fiorentini inspecting a copper-rich ore sample at UWA's Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) facility.