Mill Circuits '24: a first announcement and call for abstracts

Last week we announced Physical Separation '24, which will be held in Cape Town next June. Now we are pleased to announce that Mill Circuits '24 will immediately follow Physical Separation '24 at the Vineyard Hotel.

As we enter the 4th industrial revolution, the 'green' revolution, mineral processing is recognised as one of the most important technologies in satisfying the increasing demand for all metals, particularly those that are critical in the manufacture of renewable energy sources, and for electric vehicles. 

There are tremendous challenges facing mineral processors and processes such as gravity, flotation and magnetic separation will need to be integrated more in future as ores become more complex, and how mineral processing will evolve in the future will be the subject of the papers at Mill Circuits '24.

As the demand for resources continues to increase, and amidst growing challenges of processing complex ores while minimising energy and environmental impact, we are entering an exciting time for innovation in mineral processing. Innovation in individual unit operations is complemented by innovative approaches to the entire mineral processing flowsheet, from rearrangement of an existing circuit to a new approach for a greenfield development.

This conference invites papers on new approaches to mineral processing circuits, whether through design, modelling, optimisation or operation. This includes integration of unit operations (e.g. comminution and flotation), novel flowsheets that incorporate new equipment and new approaches to optimising circuit design.

There is now a first call for abstracts, which should be submitted online by January 31st.  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.

MEI's Media Partners are International Mining and Minerals Engineering, and our Industry Advocate is the Critical Minerals Association.

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