The 5th International Flotation Conference (Flotation '11) was organized by MEI in consultation with Prof. D. Bradshaw and Professor Jean-Paul ('J-P') Franzidis. It was sponsored by Maelgwyn Mineral Services, FLSmidth, JKTech, SNF Flomin, Outotec, Xstrata Technology, Axis House, Flowrox, FEI, CiDRA Minerals Processing, Cheminova, Senmin, Nalco Africa & SGS Canada. Media sponsors were International Mining and the Gold & Minerals Gazette.

Flotation '11 featured 2 discrete symposia:

November 14-15: Flotation Fundamentals: Physics and Chemistry

Although now over a hundred years old, the fundamental aspects of flotation are still being intensively researched, and new machines developed. This two day symposium focused on:

• Fundamental reagent and flotation chemistry
• Bubbles, froths, bubble-particle interactions
• Flotation cell hydrodynamics, kinetics and scale-up

The keynote lecture "Bubbles, frother and flotation" was given by Prof. James Finch, of McGill University, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Jim Finch

November 16-17: Flotation Applications and Plant Practice

This two day symposium focused on the application of flotation, and included sessions on:

• Plant Operations, particularly related to new technology, and process mineralogy problems
• Flotation Circuits, and their modelling, simulation, control and optimisation
• Flotation machine developments
• Metallic, non-metallic and coal flotation
• Environmental considerations

The keynote lecture "When are flotation models useful?" was given by Dr. Dan Alexander, CEO of JKTech Pty Ltd, Australia.

Dan Alexander

Previous Conferences

"Congratulations on Flotation 07. It was an excellent meeting."
Prof. Graeme Jameson, University of Newcastle, Australia

Read the conference reports from Flotation 2000, Flotation 03, Flotation 07 and Flotation 09, and see the technical programmes and view the delegate lists too.

Flotation 09 report Flotation 09 programme Flotation 09 delegate list Flotation 07 report Flotation 07 programme Flotation 07 delegate list Flotation 03 report Flotation 03 programme Flotation 03 delegate list Flotation 2000 report

Delegates at Flotation 09

"The MEI Flotation conferences now seem to have a firm foothold in the international calendar and the variety of papers [at Flotation 09] was just as good as in 2007."
Martyn Hay, Eurus Mineral Consultants, South Africa

"This conference [Flotation 07] will go down in the history of flotation as a point of reference when flotation turned a new page and moved on to its next level of knowledge and best practice."
Dr. Norman Lotter, Xstrata Process Technology, Canada

More testimonials

Organizers

The conference was organized by Minerals Engineering International (MEI) in consultation with Prof. D. Bradshaw and Professor Jean-Paul ('J-P') Franzidis.

Dee Bradshaw Dee Bradshaw is a professorial research fellow at the JKMRC at the University of Queensland, Australia, where she is involved in a number of projects focussed on process mineralogy and flotation chemistry characterisation and optimisation. She has worked closely with industrial partners and has published widely, and especially in Minerals Engineering and has been a strong supported of MEI conferences.

Dee Bradshaw

J-P Franzidis J-P Franzidis holds the South African National Research Foundation Chair in Minerals Beneficiation at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where he directs the Minerals to Metals Initiative. He is actively involved in flotation research, particularly in modeling of floatability and froth performance, in collaboration with the flotation research groups at JKMRC, McGill University, University of Newcastle and Hacettepe University.

J-P Franzidis

Continuing Professional Development

Flotation '11 was certified for Continuing Professional Development.