Minerals Engineering Conferences - Minerals Engineering '98

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General Notes
Conference Report
Publications

Minerals Engineering '98

Edinburgh, Scotland
Sept. 14-16, 1998

General Notes

123 delegates attended Minerals Engineering '98 (see Conference Report below).

The papers from the conference are now being refereed, with a view to publication in Minerals Engineering journal. Current status of publication of the papers will be displayed on this home page.

Conference Report
By C. Magnus Evertsson, Machine & Vehicle Design, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden

The 8th Minerals Engineering conference was held in Edinburgh, the historic and beautiful capital of Scotland. As usual the conference was well organised with a carefully chosen venue.

The Minerals Engineering Conferences have had a steadily increasing number of attendants. This year there were over 120 registered delegates. The number of different nationalities is impressive 25 different countries were represented. With participants from Europe, North and South America, Australasia, Asia and Africa the conference was truly international.

The conference was opened by Prof. J.A. Finch, McGill University, Canada, who gave an interesting keynote lecture entitled "Innovations and future trends in flotation cell design". The following technical sessions comprised almost 50 papers. The topics of the technical sessions covered the following areas:

Flotation Technology and Practice Process Control

Simulation and Optimisation

Bio and Hydrometallurgy

Gold Metallurgy

Gravity

Magnetic and Optical Separation

Froth Flotation Fundamentals

Comminution

Every session was well attended and almost every paper was followed by a couple of questions. Thereby, the authors got instant and high quality feed back of their work. After refereeing the papers will be published in Minerals Engineering.

During and after the technical sessions more than 45 posters were displayed. The posters comprised a wide variety of areas within minerals processing.

After the three intensive days at the conference the delegates had the opportunity to take part in a guided excursion to the Kingdom of Fife. Golfers played at the Jubilee course at St. Andrews, while non golfers visited the 16th century Falkland Palace. The day ended at Glenturret Distillery, where Highland Malt Whisky were tasted.

Next year's Minerals Engineering Conference is to held in Falmouth, Cornwall, England. The meeting is strongly recommended for the reasons already indicated above high quality presentations, well attended sessions, the mix of academic and industrial interests. Another important thing is the social aspects, Minerals Engineering Conferences provide a good opportunity to meet people with similar interests and ideas. We look forward to Minerals Engineering `99!

Publication of papers

Papers from the conference are currently being refereed, with a view to publication in Minerals Engineering. The following papers have been accepted for publication:

Volume 11 Number 11 (November 1998)

Acoustic monitoring of hydrocyclone performance
R. Hou, R.A. Williams and A. Hunt (UK)

Volume 12 Number 2 (February 1999)

Application of a vegetative cover on phosphogypsum stacks
K. Komnitsas (Greece), I. Lazar and I.G. Petrisor (Romania)

Volume 12 Number 3 (March 1999)

High temperature superconducting permanently magnetised discs and rings: prospects for use in magnetic separation
J.H.P. Watson (UK)

Mechanics of coal spirals
H.J. Glass, N.J. Minekus and W.L. Dalmijn (The Netherlands)

Process design for gold ores: a diagnostic approach
V.M Torres, A.P. Chaves (Brazil) and J.A. Meech (Canada)

The empirical prediction of bubble surface area flux in mechanical flotation cells from cell design and operating data
B.K. Gorain, J.-P. Franzidis and E.V. Manlapig (Australia)