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abstract: With the global economic downturn easing and commodity prices making a steep recovery, the mining sector in Asia is back with a flurry of activities. As new players, new investors and new risk appetites enter the equation, find out how the rules of the game may have changed for your business at Asia Mining Congress 2010.

Asia Mining Congress is the region’s definitive leadership forum for exploration, investment and development. It is an invaluable channel for the global metals & mining industry to cultivate long-term partnerships with the region’s mining stakeholders and investors. The Asia Mining Congress is where the world’s major mining companies and the region’s most influential investors will be convening as a platform to discover new investment opportunities.

abstract: Comminution '10 will have the following themes:

-The drive to lower energy consumption
-Designing and operating energy efficient circuits
-Can we really grind with less energy?
-Moving beyond size reduction
-multi-component modelling
-predicting liberation
-The squeeze on mills
-Are HPGR’s pushing down into primary milling territory?
-Are stirred mills reaching up into secondary & tertiary mill territory?

abstract: The workshop will cover applied aspects of geochemistry that relate to mineral exploration and mining, and is presented by global leaders in applied geochemistry.

abstract: This Conference, supported by the Government and the Ministry of Energy & Natural Resources of Turkey is intended to drive awareness of Global Mining Technology and the potential for its application to developing a “World-Class” industry in Central Asia with Turkey desirous of becoming a leading example and major development hub for what might be achieved. The Conference is targeted industry wide to all sectors, Coal, Base Metals, Ferrous Metals, Precious Metals, Diamonds, including both underground and surface mining, as well as the impact such technologies are having in related fields such as the Quarrying Sector for Industrial Minerals and Dimensional stones.

abstract: IMICON is an annual event designed to bring about the rebirth of the lost glories of Mining and Mineral Processing activities, which in the past was a major foreign income earner and contributor to the Gross Domestic Product. The 2010 edition, with “Creating Wealth through Sustainable Solid Minerals Development in 3rd World Economies” as its main theme is soon to commence. It promises to be a forum for imparting and dispensing knowledge on the Solid Mineral Sector. It will also provide the opportunity for stakeholders in the mineral development sector; ranging from top federal and state government officials, Bank CEOs, MD/CEOs of Mining Companies, Legal practitioners and notable resource persons from the Academia among others, to brainstorm on ways of advancing the development of mineral resources sector.

abstract: The Goldschmidt2010 conference will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA from 13th-18th June and promises once again to be an outstanding meeting with fantastic science and great facilities.

abstract: This, the 3rd International Symposium on Precious Metals (Precious Metals '10), is organised by Minerals Engineering International in consultation with Dr Mike Adams and is sponsored by Barrick Gold Corporation and Newmont Mining Corporation.

Precious Metals '10 will deal with all aspects of the processing of gold, silver and PGM ores, such as flotation, bio and hydrometallurgy.

abstract: This, the 2nd International Symposium on Processing of Nickel Ores & Concentrates (Nickel Processing '10), is organised by Minerals Engineering International and sponsored by Xstrata Process Support.

The rapid fall in nickel prices after the global recession has increased the need to improve the efficiency of the processing of nickel ores and concentrates. Indeed, process efficiency is really the key to survival and this is a time when improved technology can make significant contributions to the economics of technical operations. It is intended that the conference will attract contributions from experts around the world, to provide a forum for discussion of common problems and possible performance opportunities.

The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and plant operators, to discuss all aspects of the physical and chemical processing of nickel ores, copper-nickel ores and laterites, and nickel concentrates, including:

- Froth Flotation and other beneficiation methods
- Bio and Hydrometallurgy
- Pyrometallurgy
- Environmental aspects of nickel processing and smelting

abstract: The event will bring together researchers and experts from research and educational institutions, companies, government agencies and consulting to exchange ideas and to define the research priorities in fields of Geosciences. Special workshops will be conducted as a parallel to the conference scientific sessions. Concurrent SGEM Expo, related to the conference topics, is an excellent opportunity to promote company and to meet potential clients and business partners.

The aims of the event are: to provide the best platform for knowledge and experience shearing in the field of geosciences; to give the opportunities for future co-operation; to emphasize the role of multidisciplinary approach in revealing and solving the environmental problems in local, regional and global scale; to discuss the latest findings and technologies in surveying geology and mining, ecology, and management, in order to ensure the sustainable use of natural resources.

abstract: The theme of the meeting is PGE in the 21st Century: Innovations in Understanding their Origin and Applications to Mineral Exploration and Beneficiation".

abstract: The International Mineralogical Association (IMA), the oldest international scientific body of mineral sciences, organised its first General Meeting (GM) in 1959. The next meeting of the recently quadrennial world conference series, the twentieth IMA GM, is standing on, and will pay tribute to the solid basis built up by the results of two complete generations of mineral scientists, having met traditionally at IMA GMs.

New paradigms need new generations. New generations need to relate to the past. Generations need to meet personally. At IMA2010 space will be allocated for discussions of small groups. Emphasis will be laid on helping participants with special needs (disabled participant service, child care, rest areas etc.)

abstract: The geology and metallogeny of the world’s major domains will be covered, i.e., those that are emerging and gaining focus.

abstract: This, the 2nd International Symposium on the Processing of Zinc Ores and Concentrates (Zinc Processing '10), is organised by Minerals Engineering International.

Primary zinc production is complicated by the fact that sphalerite is usually associated with economic amounts of lead and copper minerals, and is often contained in a gangue high in pyrite. The complex intergrowths often mean that very fine grinding is required, followed by selective flotation.

Some of the most important developments which have taken place in minerals engineering in recent years have involved the treatment of these ores and in the subsequent extraction of zinc from concentrates.

Papers are invited on all aspects of the processing of zinc ores and concentrates, including:

- Production of zinc concentrates and the associated problems encountered in comminution and flotation due to the complex mineralogy of Pb-Zn, Cu-Zn and Cu-Pb-Zn deposits.
- Treatment of zinc concentrates by hydrometallurgical, biohydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical routes.
- Environmental issues associated with the treatment of the ores and concentrates.

abstract: This, the 1st International Symposium on Process Mineralogy (Process Mineralogy '10), is organised by Minerals Engineering International in consultation with Megan Becker.

Developing from MEI’s previous conferences on Applied Mineralogy and Automated Mineralogy, Process Mineralogy ’10 will deal with the following topics:

- Quantitative mineralogy, including both X-ray and Electron Beam Techniques
- Geometallurgy
- Ore characterisation
- Mineral Liberation and Textural Analysis
- Application of process mineralogy on site
- Sampling and Statistics
- Advanced Process Control

Papers will be published as an unrefereed Proceedings on CD-ROM, and selected papers will be published, after peer-review, in a special Process Mineralogy issue of Minerals Engineering journal.

abstract: This, the 5th International Symposium on Bio- & Hydrometallurgy (BioHydromet '10), is organised by Minerals Engineering International.

BioHydromet '10 will focus on the latest developments in:

- Hydrometallurgy: leaching, solvent extraction and ion-exchange;
- Biotechnology: Development and uses of bacteria and other biological agents in hydrometallurgy, flotation, solid-liquid separation, remediation etc.

abstract: This, the 2nd International Symposium on Sustainability through Resource Conservation and Recycling '11 (SRCR '11), is organised by Minerals Engineering International in consultation with Prof Markus Reuter. This conference discusses all aspects of material and metal usage.

abstract: We currently face a public debate on climate change. On one side stand those who oppose the mere notion of man-induced climate change. On the other there is a strong faction that, in its extreme, prophesises a near-future 'doomsday'. In the middle stands a community that would like to see a sound discussion and actual proofs going beyond unproven climate modelling.

It would be naive to think that modern industrialised societies play no part in climate change. The minerals industry is one of the largest producers of carbon dioxide, and the need to reduce emissions, coupled with the global recession, is having a huge economic impact.

Until it is proven whether climate change is human-induced or not, legislation and common-sense demand that carbon emissions be reduced, particularly from high CO2 producers such as the minerals industry.

abstract: This, the 1st International Symposium on Risk-Based Approaches to Major Decisions (Risk '11), is organised by Minerals Engineering International in association with RMRI.

Risk management is a vital decision-making tool in modern industry and commerce. Since virtually every decision involves some element of uncertainty, and because there are risks inherent in most of the key issues facing companies today, the ability to understand risks and manage them effectively is an important ingredient for success. This is particularly true when assessing complex and large scale decisions where considerable capital is involved.

In such cases, risk-based approaches have been shown to be highly effective because they enable decision makers to make informed management choices based on structured information and analysis and to demonstrate the basis of their decisions.

This conference will look at areas in the construction, management and operation of large scale assets where adopting a risk-based approach to decision-making offers advantages in terms of both reduced risks and commercial benefit. Novel areas of application will be discussed and innovative techniques that are demonstrably cost effective will be introduced.

abstract: This conference aims to bring together researchers, mill operators and software developers to present and discuss the application of computational modelling to the mineral and metallurgical process industries.

abstract: Although there is much current emphasis on the chemical methods of mineral separation – flotation, hydrometallurgy, and bioleaching, the physical separation methods are ubiquitous, and there is no mining operation in the world which does not make use of the density differences between solids and liquids.

abstract: Mining equipment, supplies and services, computers - software and hardware, conveyors and associated handling equipment, electrical equipment, fire fighting equipment, safety equipment, underground mining, transportation, environmental and dust control, opencut mining, mineral extraction, mineral processing and coal preparation, crushing, grinding and screening equipment, power generation and transmission, cabling, energy systems, process control, pumps and valves

abstract: Flotation '11 features 2 discrete symposia:

November 14-15: Flotation Fundamentals: Physics and Chemistry

Although now over a hundred years old, the fundamental aspects of flotation are still being intensively researched, and new machines developed. This two day symposium will focus on:
- Fundamental reagent and flotation chemistry
- Bubbles, froths, bubble-particle interactions
- Flotation cell hydrodynamics, kinetics and scale-up

November 16-17: Flotation Applications and Plant Practice

This two day symposium focuses on the application of flotation, and will include sessions on:

- Plant Operations, particularly related to new technology, and process mineralogy problems
- Flotation Circuits, and their modelling, simulation, control and optimisation
- Flotation machine developments
- Metallic, non-metallic and coal flotation
- Environmental considerations