Developing from MEI’s previous conferences on Applied Mineralogy and Automated Mineralogy, Process Mineralogy ’10 will deal with the following topics:

• Quantitative mineralogy, including both X-ray and Electron Beam Techniques
• Geometallurgy
• Ore characterisation
• Mineral Liberation and Textural Analysis
• Application of process mineralogy on site
• Sampling and Statistics
• Advanced Process Control

The first keynote lecture will be given by Dr Robert Schouwstra, Manager of Mineralogical Research at Anglo Research, South Africa. His talk will be entitled "Developments in mineralogical techniques – what about mineralogists?"

The second keynote lecture will be given by Dr Norman Lotter, of Xstrata Process Support, Canada, CIM Distinguished Lecturer for 2010/11, who will present "Modern process mineralogy: an integrated multi-disciplined approach to flowsheeting".

Process Mineralogy '10 is organised by Minerals Engineering International (MEI) in consultation with Dr. Megan Becker.

Dr. Becker studied geology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) before joining the Centre for Minerals Research at UCT to help integrate mineralogy into the current mineral processing activities of the Centre, where she is currently a Research Officer. In this role, she has gained much interaction with both local and international industry sponsors of research, academic partners, manufacturers of automated mineralogical equipment, and has also been involved in the supervision of numerous postgraduate theses. Her current interests include pyrrhotite mineralogy and its effect on flotation performance (the focus of her current PhD thesis at the University of Pretoria), process mineralogy of platinum ores, geometallurgy, rheology and mineralogy and environmental mineralogy.