Life Members

Ken has been very active over a long period of time on both Australian and NSW committees, and assisted with the organisation of many ACPS conferences. He also was responsible for driving the modernisation of the financial administration of the ACPS.  His service is listed below:  More Information

Ken is a Life Memberof the Australian Coal Preparation Society and was a long serving member of the Queensland Society.  His service to the Society includes:  More Information

Mark was presented with Honorary Life Membership of the ACPS in November 2018. At that time, he was the longest serving NSW Branch Committee member, having served 20 years over a host of portfolio duties. Two of those years were served as NSW Branch Chairman. More Information

Jim's working career of over 50 years spanned a period of great development in coal preparation, and Jim has been a significant contributor. All who came in contact with Jim during this period were impressed with his enthusiasm and work ethic, which continued up until the very day he retired... More Information

Glen has been a long-standing member of the NSW Branch Committee and has had significant involvement with education. His service is listed below:  More Information

 Bruce Firth obtained a Ph.D. from Sydney University in 1975; his work considered the flow properties of fine particle suspensions. Research and development in mineral and coal processing was continued at the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College (London), BHP Central Research Laboratories and BP. More Information

Eugene is a Life Member and a founding Director of the Australian Coal Preparation Society.  He was one of the longest serving members of the Queensland Society/Branch and the National Board.  His service is listed below:  More Information

Arthur was the Life Member and a founding Director of the Australian Coal Preparation Society.  He was one of the longest serving members of the Queensland Society/Branch.  His service to the Society is summarised below:  More Information

Career started as an apprentice panel beater and spray painter.  But not to the automobile industry did he go, instead to Ingersoll Rand, assembling and painting compressors, pumps and drilling equipment.  He soon moved to the position of operator trainer of drilling equipment and then as an application sales consultant.  More Information

After completing a cadetship with BHP Steelworks, Lister Maltman graduated from University in 1963 and began full-time employment at the Steelworks in the area of Coal Quality and Preparation.In 1966 he took an overseas posting in the UK with Stewarts and Lloyds. More Information

Stuart started life as a physical chemist, receiving Science Honours and Masters Degrees from the University of London. He followed this up with a PhD from the University of Sydney. After a few years working for Unilever Research in UK, he returned to Australia in 1970 to take up a... More Information

While Tony has many technical, professional and society achievements, there are three matters in which Tony had strong involvement that were ground breaking for the Australian Coal Preparation Society (ACPS). More Information

Frank was born on 17 February, 1916 in Trelewis, Glamorganshire, a small mining village about 30 km north of Cardiff. He gained his School Certificate in 1931, the Higher School Certificate in 1933, the Higher National Certificate in 1942, a B.Sc. Degree (London) in 1943, and his M.Sc. (London) in 1945. More Information

Andrew’s first serious involvement with the Coal Preparation Society was around 1979, almost 40 years ago, when Jim Donnelly pulled together a team of Novocastrians to form the local organising committee for the First Australian Coal Preparation Conference. He was also roped in to be the Editor of the Proceedings. More Information

Ray was a Life Memberof the Australian Coal Preparation Society.  He was a long serving member of the Queensland Society.  He was appointed Head of the Department of Mining & Metallurgy Engineering at the University of Queensland in 1967 (same year as the Queensland Society was formed).   More Information

Fred was a Life Member and a founding committee member of the Queensland Coal Preparation Society.  His service is listed below:  More Information