The XXX International Mineral Processing Congress is cancelled

As a media partner to the XXX International Mineral Processing Congress, MEI is sorry to announce that the Organizing Committee of the IMPC, scheduled to be held in Cape Town from 18 to 22 April 2021, have wisely decided to cancel this conference as a face-to-face event due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. IMPC 2020 was postponed by 6 months from the original dates of 18 to 22 October 2020 due to this pandemic. However, based on the current global situation, the Organizing Committee are of the view that Covid-19 may affect international conferences in 2021 and they would not wish to expose delegates to any potential health risks. It is not possible to postpone IMPC 2020 any further as this impacts on IMPC 2022 to be held in Melbourne.

The International Mineral Processing Council, in discussion with the IMPC 2020 Organizing Committee, has made the following decisions to mitigate the effect of this cancellation. Firstly, the XXXIII International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2026) has been awarded to Cape Town and will run similarly to the way IMPC 2020 was originally planned. Secondly, IMPC 2020 will be officially recognized as the XXX International Mineral Processing Congress in the series which began in London in 1952. Papers that have successfully gone through the peer review process will be published in a set of formal IMPC Congress Proceedings. This will ensure that the authors of the over 500 papers submitted to IMPC 2020 will have their research recognized in an official set of IMPC 2020 Congress Proceedings.

The Organizing Committee of IMPC 2020 will be in contact with authors, sponsors and plenaries in the near future, and are extremely grateful to all those who have supported IMPC 2020 to date and sincerely regret the cancellation of this conference.

We all look forward to the XXXIII International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2026) in Cape Town, South Africa.