The SME Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City is only a week away

The MEI blog began in February 2009. That same month, Jon and I attended the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) Annual Meeting in Denver, with snapshots from the event appearing in the February blog posts.

Jon and I at the Elsevier booth in Denver, 2009

The following year in Phoenix, I started writing annual reports on the SME meetings and have covered every one since, up to last year’s meeting in Denver (MINEXCHANGE 2025). That event may mark my final visit to the USA, and at next week’s Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City Jon was hoping to represent MEI, but unfortunately due to a recent sports injury he has had to pull out.

So I regret that there will be no MEI report and photos from this year's meeting but if you have news and photos that would be of interest to mineral processors, I would be grateful if you could pass them on. I particularly regret that we won't be able to photograph the Mineral Processing Division Award Winners this year:

Antoine Gaudin Award: Jan Cilliers
Milton E. Wadsworth Award: Ronel Kappes
Robert H. Richards Award: Rob McIvor

or the AIME's Frank Aplan Award winner James Gebhardt

The nearest I can get is photos from previous SMEs:

Jan Cilliers (2024), Ronel Kappes (2024), Rob McIvor (2022), Jim Gebhardt (2022)

Congratulations to you all. 

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