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Minerals Engineering International (MEI) is based in the beautiful Cornish town of Falmouth, in the extreme South-West of England, and only a few miles from the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Camborne-Redruth mining area, once the world's greatest producer of copper and tin.
"MEI is the glue that binds the international mineral processing community together"
Prof. John Ralston, founding Director of The Wark and South Australian of the Year, 2007
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Falmouth Harbour
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The role of MEI is to disseminate information to the mineral processing community via:
- The Internet. MEI Online was launched in January 1999, to provide a central source of information for minerals engineers around the world.
- High quality international conferences. Since their inception in 1991, MEI Conferences have developed a reputation for bringing together groups of high profile academics, researchers and industrialists, to discuss the latest developments in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy.
- Minerals Engineering. This internationally recognised, peer-reviewed journal is published by Elsevier Science, and edited by Dr. Barry Wills of MEI. Each monthly issue contains papers from leading researchers in the field.
The senior partners of MEI are:
Dr. Barry Wills
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Barry's career in mineral processing began in 1969, when he left Leeds University to work for 4-years in Zambia with Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd. On his return to the UK, he worked for a year as a senior development engineer with Johnson Matthey Ltd, before taking up the post of Senior Lecturer at the Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall, where he was actively involved in the squash and cricket teams, as well as diving on some of the many shipwrecks around the Cornish coast. During his time at Camborne he found time to write the text-book Mineral Processing Technology, and in 1988 founded the Minerals Engineering journal. Barry left CSM in 1996 to work with CSM Associates on the organisation of minerals engineering conferences. In 1998 he joined forces with Amanda to form Minerals Engineering International.
Barry relaxes by coast walking and cycling.
In 2014 he was the recipient of the International Mineral Processing Council's Distinguished Service Award, and in 2017 with the IOM3 Medal for Excellence. He is an Honorary Professor of the Central South University, China
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Dr. Amanda Wills
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Amanda helped set up MEI while writing up her PhD.
Her academic career started with a degree in marine biology at the University of Wales Swansea, and after a year off to travel she undertook a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Birmingham.
As a full-time partner in MEI, her main responsiblity is MEI Online and the MEI Online Update newsletter. As well as taking care of the web site, Amanda also helps with the organisation of the MEI conferences.
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Jon Wills
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Jon joined MEI in May 2003. After studying at the University of Salford he spent four years living in the French Alps managing a bar in Meribel. He then moved to London to work for a nightclub chain, where in 2003 he was given the “Outstanding Achievement” award in recognition of his management skills.
Jon is responsible for the MEI online conferences and also helps with the MEI website.
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