Non-Executive Director

BE, PhD

Don McKee is a metallurgical engineer. He gained a BE from the University of Queensland in 1968 and a PhD in association with the JKMRC in 1972. He then worked mainly in the area of process control with Mount Isa Mines Ltd, Amax Inc ( in Colorado) and Woodlawn Mines. He joined the staff of the JKMRC in 1981 with responsibility for mineral processing research.

He was largely responsible for establishing JKTech as the Commercial Division of the JKMRC in 1986. In 1990 he was appointed Director of the JKMRC, a position he held till the end of 1996. Then followed a move to the St Lucia campus as Director of the Sir James Foots Institute of Mineral Resources and Head of the Department of Mining, Minerals and Materials Engineering, the latter till the end of 2001.

He was Director of the Sustainable Minerals Institute from 2001 until his retirement at the end of 2007.