Yearly Archives: 2015

As some of you may be aware, WASM alumnus Carl Adams has been fighting hard since April against a diagnosis of Stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and needs a bone marrow transplant. Some of you might have read about it in the local news:
https://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/perth-dad-carl-adams-lymphoma-ordeal-family-pleads-for-miracle-marrow-donor-20151013-gk8kbo.html
If you have ever thought about joining the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, now is the time to do it (if you are not already registered). Many people who are excluded from donating blood (e.g. those who have lived in the UK 1980-1996) don’t know that they are still eligible to donate bone marrow.
Carl has been dealt a tough hand, with the most aggressive form of the disease known as “double hit,” which has not responded to standard chemo treatment. Carl and his wife and two young daughters are currently in Kansas in the USA, taking part in a medical trial to treat the cancer. However, in order to prevent the disease coming back, he still needs a stem cell (bone marrow or cord blood) transplant. There are 22 million people already registered globally on the www.bethematch.org transplant list. Unfortunately, they’ve just found out that due to Carl’s rare HLA typing, he doesn’t match with anyone already on the database. His friends and family are running a registration drive, in the hopes of finding a match. Maybe it’s you? Please take a minute to think about registering, and encourage your friends and family to register also. The sooner the better, as timing for Carl’s treatment is tight. It could save him…or another loved person somewhere in the world.
To join the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, you need to be 18-45 years old, and:
a) check your eligibility and what’s involved, via their website (www.abmdr.org.au)
b) fill out a form, and
c) have a sample of blood (about 20mL) taken for testing.
Representatives from the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry will be available on Tuesday November 17th from 10am in the Perth CBD (location TBC) to collect registrations and take blood samples (a 5-10 min procedure). If you would like to participate in this session, please email Helen Barbour (hbarbour@kpmg.com.au). Alternatively, you can join the registry sooner, during a routine blood donation with the Red Cross – just ask at the beginning of your appointment.
For further information, please consult www.abmdr.org.au

The 2015 Ray Finlayson Medal for Leadership and Academic Excellence was awarded to WA School of Mines, Curtin University, Extractive Metallurgical Engineering student Michael Assmann, recognising his outstanding academic record and excellent leadership attributes.

The award is sponsored by the Kalgoorlie School of Mines Scholarship Trust in honour of the late Ray Finlayson, former gold prospector, mayor of Kalgoorlie and inaugural mayor of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Newmarket Gold Announces Appointment of Chief Operating Officer VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Nov. 18, 2015) – Newmarket Gold Inc. is very pleased to announce the appointment of Darren Hall as Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of Newmarket effective December 7, 2015. As COO, Darren will be based in Australia and have responsibility for all of the Company’s operating mines and growth projects as an integral member of the Newmarket executive team. Darren joins Newmarket from Newmont Mining Corporation where he held roles of increasing responsibility throughout the organization for the past 29 years. Under his leadership as Group Executive Operations for Newmont Asia Pacific he managed a team of 14,000 employees producing 1.8 million ounces of gold annually from six operating mines across three countries. He also worked with Newmont in Peru, Indonesia and the United States and most recently in Australia as General Manager of the Boddington Gold Mine where he led a team of 1,800 employees producing 750,000 ounces of gold annually. He graduated with a Bachelor of Mining Engineering from the Western Australia School of Mines in Kalgoorlie.

Jarrod Williams passed away Monday 19 October 2015 Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white. We will come down at night to these resounding beaches And the long gentle thunder of the sea, Here for a single hour in the wide starlight We shall be happy, for the dead are free.

Professor Will Featherstone from the Western Australian School of Mines comments on research that shows parts of Fremantle may be sinking, as too much groundwater is extracted from the Perth Basin.
Will Featherstone, professor of geodesy at Curtin and the lead author of the study, described the effect as “like slowly letting the air out of a balloon”.

Professor Steven Reddy from the Western Australian School of Mines comments on the discovery of a rare mineral that only forms in nature during meteorite impacts.

MCGUSHIN (Peter Joseph): Graduated from the WA School of Mines in 1964 20.02.1926 – 09.10.2015 Passed away peacefully at home after a long illness. Currently, the Guest Book for Peter MCGUSHIN is available for viewing, but not accepting entries until Thursday, 15 October 2015. Peter’ s funeral will be held at Karrakatta 12.30pm Friday 16 October 2015 and later at the Blue Water Grill Applecross 2.30pm Originally from Dublin Ireland Departure Port Liverpool Arrival Year 1950 Fremantle Orphaned at age 6 Peter was brought up in convent and orphanage in Dublin. He became a telegram boy at 14. Peter then joined the Palestine Police 1945. Migrated December 1949 to work in gold mines in Kalgoorlie. He married a Boulder girl. Graduated from WASM as a Mining Engineer in 1964. Peter and Dianne had six children. He retired to Perth, 1991

Michael Ottaviano CEO of “Carnegie” 1994 WA School of Mines Mining Engineer, sees great potential in harnessing the power of the sea.

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