I have learnt to speak Italian and my child Amy who is now three speaks fluent Italian at kindergarten and English at home. I am still heavily involved in reasearch in hydrometallurgy - with interests in gold leaching in cyanide and thiosulphate, recovery of gold from thiosulphate solutions, cyanide recovery and electrowinning of base metals. I am also teaching a range of undergraduate subjects, including process control, reaction engineering, industrial chemistry and computer applications. These are the parts of a Bayer process cycle. Above that, I do development work for future installation of facilities.
Life is wonderful here.
The nature is beautiful and fishing is very popular. People are nice and very friendly. It is summer all year round. This work has taken me from the Perth offices to the Murrin Murrin mine site and even a stint at the Mineral Processing laboratories at Murdoch University. My position involves some teaching and working on a variety of research projects.