A Busy Year Ahead for MEI

Happy New Year to you all and let's hope it will be a better one than 2025, with less conflict and upheaval across the world. The MEI team will be represented at a number of conferences this year and we hope to catch up with as many of you as possible.

I have been to 22 Annual Meetings of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, but last year's event in Denver may have been my last. Next month's SME Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City will be attended by Jon, so look out for him there and pass any interesting news on to him, as he will be reporting daily.

In the following month Amanda will be in Adelaide for MetPlant 2026. MEI is a media partner and I look forward to Amanda's report on this, which is Australia's premier mineral processing event.

One of the keynote speakers at MetPlant is Prof. Kevin Galvin, Director of ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals at the University of Newcastle. Kevin will also be presenting a keynote lecture at Mineral Processing Circuits '26 in Cape Town in April, MEI's second conference of the year. 

Immediately preceding Mineral Processing Circuits '26 is Physical Separation '26 and there is much to look forward to in these two conferences at the Vineyard Hotel.

Amanda will be in Orléans, France in September for the 26th International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium. MEI is a media partner, and abstract submission is open to the 15th of this month.

MEI is also a media partner for the International Mineral Processing Congress, which will be held at Cape Town's Convention Centre in October, five years after its scheduled 2020 date, which had to be postponed due to Covid. 

MEI will be represented by Amanda and me and Amanda's son Will, the latest member of the team. We look forward to this with much anticipation as the Cape Town IMPC of 2003 was one of the best in the series. The organisers of IMPC 2026 expect to gather over 1,000 professionals and academics from the mining industry, representing around 50 countries. The highlight will be the conference banquet where Lifetime Achievement, Distinguished Service and Young Authors' Awards will be made.

We will be back in Cape Town the following month for MEI's Process Mineralogy '26 and Critical Minerals' 26 and there are calls for abstracts for both of these events.

There is much to look forward to in 2026!

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