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  • 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 […]

  • Joint meeting with BTS: Salt Mining in Cheshire

    The Institution of Civil Engineers 1 Great George Street, Westminster

    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 […]

  • Masterclass – Battery Metals in Europe

    CityPoint One Ropemaker St, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

    Free
  • YPLC

  • 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” […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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".

    Free
  • 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 […]

  • Tailings Management – What is Best Practice

    On 4 March 2019, the Global Minerals Professional Alliance (GMPA) announced it would seek to address global action on tailings with help from various organisations including IOM3. The initiative will focus on examining tailings from the perspective of disposal and closure, help move forward discussions and solutions for tailings management, reprocessing and reuse in a […]