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Monday March 22nd
| 08.45 | Opening Remarks
B.A. Wills (UK) |
| 09.00 | Technical Session 1 - New Technology
Chairmen: I. Grewal (Canada) and G.K.N. Subasinghe (Australia) |
| 09.00 | Multi-cell jigging for fine particle separation
D.C. Yang (Mineral Technologies International, Inc., USA) |
| 09.30 | Characterisation of the pulse wave of an InLine Pressure Jig for the purposes of optimisation
A. Nesbitt and P. van der Plas (Cape Technikon, South Africa) |
| 10.00 | Applications of a high capacity wash water spiral
D.E. Spiller and J. Elder (Outokumpu Technology Inc., USA) |
| 10.30 | Coffee |
| 11.10 | Performance of the reflux classifier for gravity separation at full scale
K.P. Galvin, A. Callen, J. Zhou and E. Doroodchi (University of Newcastle, Australia) |
| 11.40 | The GFL gold flowsheet � an alternative to CIP
J.N.R. Enraght-Moony (Esker Milling and Processing, Australia) |
| 12.10 | Development of an automatic pycnometer for the mineral industry
P.M. Cameron (JK Tech Pty Ltd, Australia) and H. Gordon (UltraSort Pty Ltd, Australia) |
| 12.40 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Technical Session 2 - Applications
Chairman: D. Henderson (Australia) |
| 14.00 | InLine Pressure Jig (Gekko�s) starts the modernization plan at the San Rafael plant
F.A. Ruiz et al (Minsur SA, Peru) and R. Longley (Gekko Systems Pty Ltd, Australia) |
| 14.30 | Improved gold recovery economics at Target Gold Mine, South Africa
J.A. Botha (Avgold Target Division, South Africa) |
| 15.00 | The use of surface active chemicals in heavy medium viscosity reduction
N.T. Mabuza, J. Pocock, B.K. Loveday (University of Natal, South Africa) |
| 15.30 | Concentration of Iranian titanium ore by physical methods
M. Irannajad and A. Mehdilo (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran) |
| 16.00 | Coffee |
| 19.00 | Conference Dinner Pre-drinks |
Tuesday March 23rd
| 09.00 | Technical Session 3 - Design, optimisation, enhanced gravity
Chairmen: D.C. Yang (USA) and K. Galvin (Australia) |
| 09.00 | Designing a full-scale gravity circuit - laboratory testing and interpretation of gravity results
C. Sprake (Falcon Concentrators, Canada) |
| 09.30 | Gravity circuit optimisation via mathematical modelling by particle size classes
I. Grewal and M. Fullam (Knelson Concentrators, Canada) |
| 10.00 | A mechanistic approach to modelling Knelson Concentrators
T.Coulter and G.K.N. Subasinghe (Murdoch University, Australia) |
| 10.30 | Coffee |
| 11.10 | Best practice feed preparation to optimise metallurgical outcomes for gravity circuits
S. Lewis-Gray (Gekko Systems Pty Ltd, Australia) |
| 11.40 | Ore characterisation methods for economic oxide minerals
W.H. Fander (Central Mineralogical Services Ltd, Australia) and J.N.R. Enraght-Moony (Esker Milling and Processing, Australia) |
| 12.10 | The recovery of fine values from tailings streams by enhanced gravity separation
R.G. Richards and T.A. Jones (Roche Mining, Australia) |
| 12.40 | Enhanced gravity separation to recover fine gold
R. Dunne (Newmont, Australia), P. Holtham, G. Lymann (JKMRC, Australia), A. McAcleese (University of Queensland, Australia) and S Hart (Newcrest Mining, Australia) |
| 13.10 | Lunch |
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