Join us in Cape Town next June for Physical Separation '24

MEI's first Physical Separation conference was held in Falmouth in 2009 and every two years after that until Physical Separation '19. The pandemic meant that Physical Separation '21 had to be replaced in 2022 by an online event, but now we look forward to Physical Separation '24, the 8th in the series, which will be held for the first time in Cape Town at the Vineyard Hotel, near Newlands, next June. The new venue will give us more space for socialising and allow us to have a small exhibition. Immediately following Physical Separation '24 will be the 2-day Milling Circuits '24, details of which will be announced soon.

Table Mountain from the Vineyard Conference Centre

There is now a call for abstracts for Physical Separation '24, which should be submitted via the online portal by the end of January. We invite abstracts on the following areas:

• Gravity concentration methods - single and multi-G separators and dense medium separation
• Classification techniques - hydrocyclones, air classifiers etc.
• Solid-Liquid Separation - thickeners, clarifiers etc.
• Electronic Sorting
• Magnetic and electrostatic separation
• Microwave technology. 

If accepted for presentation authors will be asked to submit extended abstracts which will be available on-line as open access. After the conference authors will then be invited to submit final papers for peer-review to Minerals Engineering, all accepted papers being compiled into a virtual special issue of the conference.

We have pleasure in welcoming the first sponsor to the conference, Polish company Comex, who provide innovative sorting systems and pulverizing technology, mainly to the industrial minerals industry. Comex Group joins our Media Partners International Mining and Minerals Engineering, and our Industry Advocate the Critical Minerals Association.

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