Comminution ’12 Conference will take place in Cape Town, South Africa

PRLog (Press Release) – Feb 09, 2012 –
This, the 8th International Comminution Symposium (Comminution ’12) is organised by MEI in consultation with Prof Malcolm Powell and Dr. Aubrey Mainza. It is sponsored by Starkey & Associates, Magotteaux, Maelgwyn Mineral Services, JKTech, Chemco Advance Material, Industrie Bitossi, Xstrata Technology, DMM, Metso, Keramos, Cenotec, Weir Minerals, TOMS, Sinoma Advanced Materials, Industrial Minerals, International Mining, & The Gold & Minerals Gazette.

Themes of  The Conference

Designing for the concentrator of 2020 – what are we contributing?

Are we taking up the challenge of providing the leadership and required tools to design our future concentrators? This is surely where we can make the most significant contribution to our industry.

If you are contributing as a researcher, supplier, engineering company or as a development team in mining company then let’s hear from you. We encourage the end-user companies to bring their needs and drivers to the table so as to motivate the development of appropriate expertise and technology and to pick out the potential useful contributors to your development vision.

Industry keynote speakers are being invited to present the vision and challenges.

As a research or technology provider, come and show us what you’ve got!

The following broad themes are likely to address this area:

Improving environment sustainability while driving down costs
Designing and operating energy efficient circuits
Designing for the next generation of mines
Pre-concentration – ore sorting, gravity, dense media, coarser liberation
Reducing the costs of consumables – energy and dollars
The push to finer grind for new ore bodies
Design of stirred mills – higher capacity, coarser feeds, media wear, energy consumption
Progress in modelling and scale-up
Rheology – wet and dry
Influence on classification and fine milling
Fine screening
Benefits, costs, feasibility
Compressed bed breakage
Dry grinding and classification ahead of wet recovery processes
Driving into finer grinding
Integrating new equipment and ideas into practical circuits
HPGR’s, dry classification, fine screening, sorting and separation, mixed milling HPGR circuits, coarser flotation

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

More Information about the Comminution ’12 at http://itevent.net/comminution-12