Technical Programme Available And Registration Open
The 9th International Comminution Symposium (Comminution ‘14), organised by MEI in consultation with Prof Malcolm Powell (JKMRC) and Dr Aubrey Mainza (Centre for Minerals Research, UCT), is on track to be the biggest event in the series. With 3 months still to go before the start of the event in Cape Town all of the exhibition space has sold out. Booths have been taken up by companies including Metso, Russell Mineral Equipment, Keromos, and Outotec. There has also been a great deal of interest shown in sponsoring next year’s event (see below), with a total of 23 sponsors so far.
The technical programme has just been published on the event’s web site at http://www.min-eng.com/comminution14/. Prof. Tim Napier-Munn, of the JKMRC/JKTech, will present the first keynote lecture "Is progress in energy-efficient comminution doomed?". Alan Muir, Vice President Metallurgy at AngloGold Ashanti, South Africa, will present the second keynote lecture "The next stage of evolution in comminution" and Dr Wolfgang Peukert, Director of The Institute of Particle Technology at the University of Erlangen, Germany, will present the 3rd keynote lecture "A multiscale view on comminution".
The technical programme is supported by a healthy social programme, with an opening wine reception the evening before the start of the event, where delegates can also register their arrival, thereby avoiding the morning rush. After the first full day of technical papers, delegates will be able to wind down in the hotel’s gardens with a glass of wine at the ‘Happy Hour’. The second evening will involve a trip to Cape Town’s GOLD restaurant for the conference dinner. Day 3 will see another ‘Happy Hour’ in the gardens, whilst the end of the conference will be marked by a closing coffee and wine reception.
Registration forms are also available on the web site at http://www.min-eng.com/comminution14/reg.htmlreg.html.
Comminution ‘14 is sponsored by TOMS, Starkey & Associates, King's Ceramics & Chemicals, Keramos, Polysius, FLSmidth, Magotteaux, CHEMCO Advance Material, Grintec Advanced Materials Technology, Industrie Bitossi, Eirich, Metso, Cenotec, Russell Mineral Equipment, Grinding Solutions, Outotec, CITIC Heavy Industries, DMM, First Quantum Minerals and SELFRAG. Media sponsors are International Mining, Industrial Minerals and AT International. Please contact Jon Wills at jon@min-eng.com if you are interested in sponsoring. ■
Call for Papers for Comminution ‘14
Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa
April 7-10, 2014
Final Call for Papers for Comminution ‘14
The 9th International Comminution Symposium (Comminution ‘14), organised by MEI in consultation with Prof Malcolm Powell and Dr Aubrey Mainza, is on track to be the biggest event in the series. With 7 months still to go before the start of the event in Cape Town, over 3/4 of the exhibition space has already sold out. Booths have been taken up by companies including Metso, Russell Mineral Equipment, Keromos, and Outotec. There has also been a great deal of interest shown in sponsoring next year’s event (see below), with a total of 22 sponsors so far.
MEI’s Comminution conferences are established as the main events for profiling cutting edge research and innovation in all aspects of crushing, grinding and ultrafine grinding in the minerals industry. Industrially based research papers showing the benefits of basing practical application on scientific rigour, such as the industrial validation of models and control techniques, are strongly encouraged. Draft papers will be published as an unrefereed Proceedings on a USB memory stick, and selected papers will be published, after peer-review, in a special Comminution issue of Minerals Engineering journal.
Prof. Tim Napier-Munn, of the JKMRC/JKTech, will present the first keynote lecture "Is progress in energy-efficient comminution doomed?". Alan Muir, Vice President Metallurgy at AngloGold Ashanti, South Africa, will present the second keynote lecture "The next stage of evolution in comminution".
If you wish to present a paper at this international event, please see www.min-eng.com/comminution14/ for details or email Dr Barry Wills, bwills@min-eng.com.
Comminution ‘14 is sponsored by TOMS, Starkey & Associates, King's Ceramics & Chemicals, Keramos, Polysius, FLSmidth, Magotteaux, CHEMCO Advance Material, Grintec Advanced Materials Technology, Industrie Bitossi, Eirich, Metso, Cenotec, Russell Mineral Equipment, Grinding Solutions, Outotec, CITIC Heavy Industries, DMM and First Quantum Minerals. Media sponsors are International Mining, Industrial Minerals and AT International.
Please contact Jon Wills at jon@min-eng.com if you are interested in sponsoring or exhibiting.
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