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December 2018
Flexible and Mobile Mineral Processing in the 21st Century
FAME is an EU funded Research and Innovation project. The project comprises of 16 partners from seven EU28 countries. The project aims to develop innovative mineral processing flowsheets to process European skarn, greisen or pegmatite ores. The two-day Flexible and Mobile Processing in the 21st Century conference will showcase the results of the FAME experimental programme with presentations from all major work packages, including: • Mineral characterisation • Mineral processing solutions for skarn and pegmatite ores • Mineral processing solutions…
Find out more »January 2019
General meeting
Rachel Speight will be speaking about the difficulties companies from 'traditional' mining countries face when competing in less-than-transparent jurisdictions, and actions such companies can take to defend themselves while retaining industrial competitiveness. Rachel is a seasoned veteran of mining and infrastructure law, with particular expertise in the African continent. She has been with Mayer-Brown since 1999 and is repeatedly commended for her commercial-mindedness and technical understanding. The talk will cover: an introduction to the UK anti-bribery offences and some discussion…
Find out more »February 2019
Joint meeting with BTS: Salt Mining in Cheshire
Salt Mining in Cheshire. Speaker: Gordon Dunn, Compass Minerals UK Winsford Salt Mine: From Drill and Blast to Automated Continuous Mining, will explore the historic method of drill and blast, focusing on the move from continuous miners to the automation of the miners and the benefits of automation. Alternative Mine Uses (AMUs) which are in place to reduce the weather effect of a winter de-icing business will also be discussed. This is a free event - advance booking not required. Tea…
Find out more »March 2019
Masterclass – Battery Metals in Europe
Programme 08:15 Registration and breakfast 09:00 Welcome and introduction 09:15 Geological overview of the 'battery metal' deposits and exploration activity in Europe. Speaker: Jon Russill (Principal Exploration Geologist, SRK Consultants) 09:45 Europe’s role in the battery megafactory supply chain Speaker: Robert Colbourn (Manager, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence) 10:15 Coffee break 10:45 Company Presentation from Talga Resources - Developing a graphite mine and exploring for cobalt in Sweden. Speaker: Martin Philips (COO, Talga Resources) 11:15 Energy density and the future of EV batteries. Speaker: Adam Panayi…
Find out more »The Iron Cycle – Fe 150
IOM3 is celebrating the 150 year anniversary of its foundation through the Iron and Steel Society. These events and activities are being described and updated through the 150th anniversary microsite and in Materials World magazine. The Resources* Divisions are contributing to the anniversary, which includes arranging a one-day conference “The Iron Cycle – Fe 150” which will be held at the Institute’s London HQ, 297 Euston Road. The theme is "150 years of extracting, processing & recycling the material that…
Find out more »April 2019
General meeting – 150 Years of Steel
Roger Emmott, a recent Past-President of MinSouth and consultant to the iron and steel industry, will give a presentation on the evolution of steel as a complex and versatile material that has facilitated the modern world as we know it, over a relatively short space of time (150 years). Starting in 1869, the presentation will cover the evolution of primitive iron into cast-iron and then wrought iron and then finally the discovery that steel could be refined and more latterly…
Find out more »May 2019
IOM3 150th Anniversary function and joint meeting with Women in Mining
Fiona Cessford, Director and Corporate Consultant (Environment) at SRK Consulting (UK) will give a talk entitled "Impact assessment and feasibility studies – amalgamate or separate". We like to think the bad old days of impact assessment studies being done solely to obtain the necessary permits are in the past, but are they? Unfortunately there are still companies out there who separate and isolate these processes. Proportional impact assessment and amalgamation with project development studies is not just about permitting and…
Find out more »June 2019
Prestige Lecture
Neil Wells, Chair, CRIRSCO, will deliver a lecture entitled "International reporting of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves – Risks and Opportunities created by Brexit and Trump".
Find out more »September 2019
Tailings Monitoring
Philip Shaw of SureWave Technology Ltd will give a short presentation on new technology for monitoring of tailings dams, followed by a panel discussion with Hans Otto, Senior Tailings Engineer with Golder Associates and John Thuysbaert of Knight Piesold. Both Golder and Knight Piesold are Silver sponsors of MinSouth. As this event precedes the IOM3 day conference on tailings to be held on 18th September, it will not cover all aspects of tailings, but will focus particularly on monitoring.
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