About Us
The Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments and
Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME) is established and supported under
the Australian Government Cooperative Research Centre Program. LEME
is now in its last year (2007-2008) of a seven-year renewal, being the successor
of the highly acclaimed CRC for Landscape Evolution and Mineral
Exploration, which formally finished in June 2001.
Its role is to apply regolith science to the challenges facing
Australia in natural resource management and mineral exploration.
Regolith is the surficial mantle of weathered rock, sediments, soils
and biotic complexes that are formed by the natural processes of
weathering erosion and transportation.
LEME is an unincorporated joint venture between Geoscience Australia,
CSIRO (represented by the divisions of Exploration & Mining,
and Land & Water), Australian National University, Curtin University
of Technology, Adelaide University, NSW Department of Primary Industries,
Primary Industries and Resources of South Australia, and Minerals
Council of Australia. As such it has access to 155 (amounting to
78 Full Time Equivalent) research scientists, drawn from both in-kind
contributions and cash-funded positions in participating organisations.
In addition it has a large cohort of PhD and Honours students, supported
by its Student
Program. This body of research expertise is assembled into multi-disciplinary
research teams, under a program structure managed by the Executive,
to address our strategic research priorities.
Over the life of LEME (2001-2008) we expect to receive income from
CRC grants, participant contributions and industry, totalling some
$38m, which will be disbursed on research. When the value of in-kind
salaries and resources of some $94m is added, we have a total resource
value of nearly $132m.
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