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SYMPOSIUM and ROUND TABLE TOPICS

SYMPOSIUM TOPICS

• Comminution and Classification: Fundamentals and Equipment's Design
• Process Mineralogy and Mineral Characterization
• Physical separation: gravity concentration, magnetic and electrostatic separation; advances in dense medium separation
• Flotation and Surface Chemistry Fundamentals, Flotation reagents, Flotation technology: Equipment's and Progresses
• Leaching and Solutions Processing
• Coal Processing
• Dewatering and Agglomeration
• Sustainability in Mineral Processing
• Education and Other Subjects Related to Mineral Processing
• Waste Generation and Analysis
• Recycling and Utilization of Industrial Waste and E-waste
• Recycling of Bio-waste and Biomining
• Handling of Waste
• Environmental Engineering
• Waste and Resource Management
• Renewable Energies
• Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development
• Simulation, Modelling and Process Control
• Legislation Aspects on Environmental Protection and Waste Management
• Education in the Field of Recycling and Sustainable Development
• Analysis & Characterization
• Physical Concentration Methods
• Mining and Mineral Processing Management of Complex Ores;
• Processing of Industrial Minerals;
• Non-Sulphide flotation
• Hydrometallurgy and Bio-Processing
• Coal Processing
• Plant and Process Design & Operating Practice
• Soil Remediation
• Secondary Resource Recovery
• Eco-friendly waste management, utilization and recycling
• Innovation in Mineral Processing
• Economic Aspects in Mineral Processing

ROUND TABLE TOPICS

Round Table topics include the symposium topics above as well as some specific topics described below: (Participants are free to add topics as per their interest)

Sampling

• Errors in sampling and consequences in metal accounting.
• Sampling improvement for the advance of the plant performance.

Grinding Strategies

• Improving the efficiency of this least efficient circuit in the concentrator
• Improving the shape and particle size distribution for good metal recovery in flotation or in gravity separation
• Improving the electrochemical potential of the grinding circuit product

Selectivity in Flotation

• Minimizing disturbances in the sulphide flotation processes of problematic minerals such as the iron sulphides pyrite and pyrrhotite, and talc

Collectors in Flotation

• Improving sulfide flotation using ``green collectors, which do not produce carbon disulphide and are more selective.
• Improving metallurgical performance as compared to the single xanthate arrangement.

Modern Process Mineralogy

• Dealing with the treatment of difficult and complex ores that require more sophisticated characterisation and understanding.
• Dealing with the treatment of lower grade minerals containing deleterious elements that require tailored treatment.
• Applying a more sustainable approach including environmental and societal considerations in process mineralogical assessment providing the critical information that stands between failure or collapse and survival or success of some mining operations.