Nominations invited for MEI Young Person's Award 2012

Last month in Cape Town I had the pleasure of presenting Peter Ameluxen, of Aminpro Chile, with the MEI Young Person’s Award for 2011. Full details of Peter’s very impressive citation can be found on MEI Online.

We are now inviting nominations for the 2012 award, for outstanding contribution to minerals engineering by a young person in 2012.

Nominations for persons under 35 years of age at December 31st 2012, should be submitted by email to bwills@min-eng.com by 9th February 2013 and the name of the recipient will be announced at the end of that month.

Nominations should include the name, age and affiliation of the nominee, and reasons for the nomination.

The recipient will receive an engraved award, a certificate and a complimentary registration to any MEI Conference in 2013/14, with the option of presenting an MEI Award lecture.