Promet101 to sponsor four upcoming MEI Conferences

We are delighted to announce that Promet101, a sponsor of the last four MEI Flotation Conferences, has agreed to sponsor four of MEI's forthcoming conferences.

Founded by CEO Stuart Saich, ProMet 101 is an international company, headquartered in Australia, with offices in Canada and Chile, whose objectives are to provide sound solutions to clients' requirements and ensure that a well-documented path from ore definition, metallurgical testing programs through to process design criteria is provided for subsequent scrutiny by third parties such as engineering entities engaged to complete detail designs or peer reviews for project financing.

Stuart Saich with MEI's Jon Wills at Flotation '19

Stuart said "So why does a small company like ours continue to support MEI through good and tough times. Well if you think carefully about it, how much effort is put into developing a technical paper. 100 or 200 hours per paper? Then what about the costs involved? By supporting MEI you are supporting a platform for the advancement of our own industry by willing individuals to advance the scientific knowledge of the very industry we belong to. What is the inherent intellectual value or investment into the knowledge base of each conference at which say 100 technical papers are presented? I would say $1-2 million a piece. And from that investment springs further value growth as ideas advance and commercialisation grows.

Why do we invest in supporting MEI every year, because it makes absolute sense! It is not about me, it is about our industry!"

The company committed to sponsorship of the first Integration, Optimisation & Design of Mineral Processing Circuits (IntegratedMinPro '22) almost two years ago, and were later joined by Hudbay Minerals as sponsors.

A month after IntegratedMinPro '22, Sustainable Minerals '22 will be held online in July, and Promet101 now joins Zeiss, Metso:Outotec, Hudbay Minerals and Weir Minerals as sponsors.

Later in the year Process Mineralogy '22 will be held, hopefully as a hybrid event, dependent on the pandemic situation, and Promet101 joins Zeiss and Bruker as current sponsors. We hope to announce a definite date and venue for this conference next month.

Flotation '23 is some time away and by then we hope to be back at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town, where Promet101 will join Hudbay Minerals, Magotteaux, Gold Ore and Metso:Outotec, the other companies who have so far committed to this event.