Looking great for Process Mineralogy '24 and Critical Minerals '24 this November

After a gap of 6 years it will be great to bring MEI's Process Mineralogy conferences back to Cape Town. Due to Covid restrictions Process Mineralogy '22 was held in Spain. Process Mineralogy '24 in November will be the 7th in the series, with a welcome return to the Vineyard Hotel.

And immediately following Process Mineralogy '24 we have our inaugural Critical Minerals '24, also at the Vineyard. Both conferences are sponsored by Capstone Copper, Petrolab, Conundrum, AECI Mining Chemicals and Promet101, ZEISS also sponsoring Process Mineralogy '24 and Steinert Critical Minerals '24.

Our media partners are International Mining and Minerals Engineering, with industry advocate the Critical Minerals Association. CEEC is also an industry advocate for Critical Minerals '24.

We have very strong technical programmes for both conferences, with high profile keynote speakers.

The programme for Process Mineralogy '24 contains three keynote speakers. Geometallurgy is a buzz word these days and Stewart Brand, who is Principal of Global Geometallurgy in the BHP Resource Centre of Excellence, Australia, will look at the future of geometallurgy in the opening keynote.

Quentin Dehaine, a senior researcher at the Geological Survey of Finland, will open the second day with his keynote assessing trends in cobalt mining and processing in relation to mineralogy and on the final day Anita Parbhakar-Fox, of the University of Queensland, Australia, will discuss a mission to reimagine waste management by looking at mine waste transformation through characterisation.

There has been a great response to Critical Minerals '24, which with hindsight might have been better served by three rather than two days, and the very full programme also contains three keynotes.

Markus Reuter, Chief Expert at the SMS Group, Germany, opens the first day discussing the fundamental limits of the supply chain of critical metals and minerals within the circular economy and in the afternoon session on rare earth elements, Damien Krebs, study manager and metallurgist at Primero Group, Australia will review the extractive metallurgy of rare earths. The final day will open with Alan Butcher, Chief Scientist and Technical Director of the Hafren Scientific Group, UK discussing battery minerals, metals and materials as a prelude to a session on battery metals and graphite.

It won't be all about technical presentations though, as with all MEI Conferences there will be plenty of time for socialising in the Vineyard gardens and in the exhibition areas, and informal conference dinners, at Cape Town's Gold Restaurant for Process Mineralogy delegates and the Groot Constantia Wine Estate for Critical Minerals delegates.

We are looking forward to November in Cape Town, and hope to see you there.

The view of Table Mountain from the Vineyard Conference Centre

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