In Leeds for the European Symposium on Comminution and Classification

It's good to be back in Leeds, particularly to attend a conference at my alma mater, Leeds University, which I left 50 years ago this month to depart to Zambia and the beginning of my career in the mining industry.

The 16th European Symposium on Comminution and Classification (ESCC 2019) begins today, and MEI is the media partner. ESCC started over 55 years ago, held mainly in Germany with the past two Symposia held in Sweden and Turkey, and now for the very first time in UK. I have attended only one in the past, at Braunschweig in 2013.

There were a number of familiar faces at last night's Welcome Reception and I look forward to an interesting week, which will include a little nostalgia, visiting my old haunts, if I can find them, or if they still exist after half a century.

With organising committee chairman Mojtaba Ghadiri and familiar faces from Australia
Paul Cleary of CSIRO, Grant Ballantyne of Ausenco and Malcolm Powell of JKMRC

On the other side of the world, two other major conferences take place next week in Perth, Western Australia.

MetPlant 2019 begins next Monday, and is followed by World Gold 2019 on Wednesday. MEI is a media partner at both events, and Amanda will be there to represent us, and to report back on people and innovations. So if you are in Perth next week, look out for Amanda, she loves to talk to people!

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