Looking Ahead to April: MEI’s First Conferences of the Year in Cape Town

MEI’s first conferences of the year are now just three months away, and we look forward to two outstanding events at Cape Town’s beautiful Vineyard Hotel.

Physical Separation ’26, the ninth conference in this successful series, is sponsored by Promet101, Gravity Mining, Steinert, TOMRA, Capstone Copper, and Mineral Technologies.

The conference will open with a keynote lecture, "Back to the future: the resurgence of physical separations", presented by Dr. Kristian Waters of McGill University, Canada. This will be followed by 36 technical presentations covering sorting, gravity, magnetic, high-tension and tribo-electrostatic separation, hydrocyclones, and industrial screening.

The full programme is available on the website, with links to abstracts and speaker biodetails. The conference timetable can also be downloaded as a pdf.

The conference dinner will take place at the nearby Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, widely acclaimed as one of the world’s great botanical gardens. Few venues can rival the sheer grandeur of Kirstenbosch, set against the eastern slopes of Cape Town’s iconic Table Mountain.

Immediately following Physical Separation ’26 is Mineral Processing Circuits ’26, sponsored by Promet101 and Capstone Copper. Media partners for both conferences are International Mining and Minerals Engineering.

The opening keynote, "A new paradigm for mineral processing circuits: what might underpin the philosophy?", will be delivered by Kevin Galvin, Laureate Professor and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Kevin is well known as the inventor of the Reflux Classifier and Reflux Flotation Cell, and more recently the CoarseAir flotation cell.

Following the keynote, the conference will feature 31 presentations delivered over two days. The full programme and abstracts are available on the website, and the timetable can be downloaded as a pdf.

A new venue has been chosen for the conference dinner: The Wild Fig Restaurant, an 18th-century farmhouse nestled in the shadow of Table Mountain.

We look forward to welcoming delegates to what promises to be an outstanding week of conferences in Cape Town. Together they promise an engaging week of technical discussion, networking, and exceptional surroundings..

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