Dr Laura Kuhar

Laura is a chemical engineer and hydrometallurgist with over 20 years’ of research experience in the minerals processing industry. Her main area of focus is in-situ recovery, or keyhole mining, which involves the injection of fluid underground, dissolution of value minerals within the orebody and fluid recovery at the surface for further processing. Laura joined the CSIRO 11 years ago from the research team of Anglo American and prior to that, worked in the research group of De Beers Consolidated Mines.