Special Issue of Minerals Engineering honours Professor Graeme Jameson

Flotation '23 got off to a perfect start last November with a keynote lecture from Graeme Jameson, Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, who is probably our profession's most prolific and respected innovator in froth flotation. the inventor of the Jameson Cell, the NovaCell and the Concorde Cell. In 2018 he was honoured by one of the most prestigious organisations in the world, the Royal Society, which boasts a fellowship of 1,600 of the world’s most eminent scientists. 

In his keynote at Flotation '23 “Mostly froth and bubble – a lifetime of flotation research” he talked about his involvement with flotation since he first saw a flotation cell when he took his first job in the assay laboratory of a tin smelter in Sydney, Australia over seventy years ago.

Four months prior to the Cape Town conference, in July 2023, there was a flotation symposium in his honour at the University of Newcastle, Australia, with many eminent speakers, seen in the photo below. 

The symposium was attended by 130 delegates from 10 countries and I am pleased to see that the papers presented at the meeting have been published in a special issue of Minerals Engineering, now available on ScienceDirect. The Special Issue is edited by Dr. Seher Ata of the  University of New South Wales, Australia, and features papers that reflect Professor Jameson's influence and transformative ideas, covering a spectrum of topics related to froth flotation. 

Last year Prof Jameson was 87 and it was intended to be his retirement year, but I have a feeling we will see him, as always, in Cape Town next year at Flotation '25.