Friday at Mineral Processing Circuits '26

Another beautiful sunny day to end this two-day conference, with ten presentations today and a last chance to check out the four exhibitors during the long coffee and lunch breaks.

Doug Caffell, of Sepro Systems, Canada, is based in Devon, UK, and is a regular at the Cornish Mining Sundowners. Sepro is known for innovation in gravity separation technology and the company is looking forward to a strong year. While there has currently been reasons for concern or anxiety in the world, there is also a fair bit of optimism in the mining sector. In particular with gold, tin and tungsten, Sepro's specialist areas. The application of the new Frontier bowl for additional fine gold recovery as well as Continuous Falcon concentrators for fine and ultrafine tin and tungsten recovery sees Sepro well placed to service this strengthening demand.  

Amanda with Ernest Wermuth and Doug Caffell of Sepro Systems

FLS is a regular supporter of MEI Conferences, and was showcasing its latest gravity separation technologies, which allow for gravity separation into sub 75 micron scale, which is unprecedented in the industry. On display were models of the Reflux Classifier and the GradePro, which uses the same core technology as the Reflux Classifier, but is refined and optimised for recovering value from lower-grade, more challenging material, which is where the mining industry is heading. We have been fortunate to have the inventor of these machines (and the Reflux Flotation Cell), Prof. Kevin Galvin, at both conferences this week. In the photo below Kevin and FLS' Lance Christodoulou and Anson Gilbert show models of the Reflux Classifier and GradePro to Paul Miller, of Bactech Environmental Corporation, Australia and Rex Zietsman, of Globe Metals and Mining, Australia.

Paul, Lance, Kevin, Anson and Rex

Amanda closed the conference, thanking our sponsors, the exhibitors. speakers and delegates and inviting attendance at the 2nd Mineral Processing Circuits event, which will be held in February 2028, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

Those remaining then joined us in the hotel gardens, for the first time this week, for a farewell sundowner.

A summary of the presentations, with links to the draft papers, is scheduled for publication on the blog on Thursday 7th May.

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