tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post4080767842555178410..comments2024-03-26T21:47:45.016+00:00Comments on MEI's Barry Wills: Process Mineralogy '12 Conference DiaryMEIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834780351452765156noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-12783856226798152292013-01-15T06:04:43.924+00:002013-01-15T06:04:43.924+00:00Well done to the organising committee for hosting ...Well done to the organising committee for hosting another successful Process Mineralogy conference. My interest in new analytical techniques, the industrial application thereof and process mineralogy case studies was certainly satisfied. Like many other I followed the discussions regarding X-ray tomography keenly and hopefully soon we will be able to determine the potential application of this technology for the heavy mineral industry. Once again thank you for providing the opportunity to increase my knowledge.<br /><br />Carlo Philander<br />PhD student<br />Stellenbosch University Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-32321717626302655352013-01-08T10:21:07.986+00:002013-01-08T10:21:07.986+00:00Thanks to you all for your very appreciated and va...Thanks to you all for your very appreciated and valued comments. Hope to see you in Cape Town again for <a href="http://www.min-eng.com/processmineralogy14/" rel="nofollow">Process Mineralogy ‘14</a>MEIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14834780351452765156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-17414341315252295262013-01-02T16:25:51.295+00:002013-01-02T16:25:51.295+00:00Many thanks for such a well-organised conference. ...Many thanks for such a well-organised conference. I particularly appreciated the opportunity to interact with other mineralogists and catch up with many of the advances that have been made in the application of proess mineralogy techniques. Also, the chance to discuss aspects of environmental mineralogy and link up with other researchers within that field has proved invaluable.<br /><br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839255773233409469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-59121437713559512792012-12-20T13:02:54.907+00:002012-12-20T13:02:54.907+00:00Many thanks to the MEI team for organizing this gr...Many thanks to the MEI team for organizing this great conference. For me, as a young researcher getting involved in Process Mineralogy, it was encouraging and motivating attending the conference and interacting with other people working in the field. I would also like to thank everyone who showed interest in my presentation because it encourages me to keep improving my work.<br /><br />Laura Pérez-Barnuevo<br />Ph.D. Student<br />Universidad Politécnica de MadridAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-72209049879439474432012-12-18T20:46:50.065+00:002012-12-18T20:46:50.065+00:00This conference has developed into a leading forum...This conference has developed into a leading forum for Process Mineralogy. My thanks go to the MEI team for a well-organized meeting. The quality of the papers was very good. For future meetings, I suggest to enlist more papers from Mineralogy Use in processing plants and/or operational experiences in heap-stockpile leaching. This will help to increase the value of the conference for operators and expand the acceptance of daily process mineralogy.<br /><br />Wolfgang Baum, FLSmidth Salt Lake City, Inc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-4639833757433289712012-12-11T12:50:18.751+00:002012-12-11T12:50:18.751+00:00The conference was an excellent opportunity to int...The conference was an excellent opportunity to interact with other mineralogists working in different areas of the field. It also provided great insight on the directions in which process mineralogy is moving. I particularly enjoyed the talks on the progress that is being made in X-ray tomography! <br /><br />Brandon Youlton, SGS, South AfricaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-80967463767991624212012-12-06T10:40:20.756+00:002012-12-06T10:40:20.756+00:00Thank you for a well-organised conference which I ...Thank you for a well-organised conference which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was great to see what everyone is busy with and my students gained an appreciation of what the world of Process Mineralogy is all about.<br /><br />As the conference expands it will become increasingly necessary to resort to poster sessions in order to accommodate all contributors. The poster area at the conference was a bit cramped and it would be great if more space could be assigned to it.<br /><br />Prof Fanus Viljoen<br />DST Research Chair in Geometallurgy<br />University of Johannesburg<br />South AfricaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-60351586159388434702012-11-30T14:45:58.927+00:002012-11-30T14:45:58.927+00:00Photos of Process Mineralogy '12 are now on ME...Photos of Process Mineralogy '12 are now on <a href="http://min-eng.com/processmineralogy12/photos/index.html" rel="nofollow">MEI Online</a><br /> or<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151104051380916.430992.326468850915&type=3" rel="nofollow">Facebook</a>Amanda Willshttp://www.min-eng.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-74128618199947168722012-11-28T11:43:24.511+00:002012-11-28T11:43:24.511+00:00Judging by the comment above, the paper by Perez-B...Judging by the comment above, the paper by Perez-Barnuevo et al was outstanding. Here is the abstract:<br /><br />Automated textural analysis of the Kansanshi Copper ore<br />L. Pérez-Barnuevo, R. Castroviejo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) and E. Pirard (Université de Liège, Belgium)<br /><br />The use of automated technologies for the characterization of mineral particles is nowadays widespread. However, most of these techniques do not currently quantify some textural features, whose characterization is essential to improve and predict the performance of mineralurgical processes and to achieve a complete and accurate geometallurgical model.<br /><br /> In this paper, a new methodology based on digital image analysis is presented to automatically characterize the type of intergrowth between mineral phases within particles. This method has been applied to the analysis of the Kansanshi Copper ore. In this ore, chalcopyrite is usually surrounded by a rim of secondary copper sulfides or densely veined by them, causing copper loss in the flotation tails. Results show that the method identifies correctly the type of intergrowth in most cases and provides a quantitative characterization of this feature along with other valuable mineralogical information, contributing to a better knowledge of the ore behaviour.<br />MEIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14834780351452765156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-46253167525796991922012-11-28T06:36:16.481+00:002012-11-28T06:36:16.481+00:00Thank you once again to the MEI team for putting o...Thank you once again to the MEI team for putting on an outstanding conference. I'm also really proud of all the presenters for the high quality of the presentations and the discussions that followed (especially the PhD students). I agree with Hanna that Laura's paper was one of the best - and hope to see the outputs of her work becoming routinely available in the automated mineralogy software in the future. It was great to catch up with old acquaintances and also make some news ones.Dr Megan Becker, University of Cape Townnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-91728366332958691552012-11-27T08:58:53.490+00:002012-11-27T08:58:53.490+00:00Thank you and the MEI team for a successful and in...Thank you and the MEI team for a successful and interesting Process Mineralogy 2012 conference. I am glad that I attended the conference. It is always great to return to South Africa and to catch up with friends and ex-colleagues, and also meet new people working in the field. Some interesting papers were presented at the conference. In my opinion, the paper presented by Laura Perez Barnuevo was probably the best. I hope that Laura will publish her findings and I am sure that she will have a future in process mineralogy. <br />Dr Hanna Horsch<br />Manager, Quantitative Mineralogy<br />Hazen Research, Inc.,USA<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-68440135792222305522012-11-27T08:56:11.470+00:002012-11-27T08:56:11.470+00:00Judging from the 44 papers and 12 poster presentat...Judging from the 44 papers and 12 poster presentations delivered at MEI’s Process Mineralogy ’12, the future of Modern Process Mineralogy looks secure. The two keynote speakers, Baum and Miller, delivered useful lectures on the overall modern best practice, and on the emerging technology now available in tomography. The younger authors presented a very high standard of work with new thinking. The overall standard presented was very high, with useful case studies demonstrating value delivery in projects – now including extractive metallurgy, and some new methods under development to add to the Process Mineralogy toolbox. Good examples of the latter were the proposal by Wightman and Evans on a quantitative liberation model for grinding requirements; by Evans and Napier-Munn on estimating the error of grain size measurements; and an outstanding contribution by Pérez-Barnuevo on the development of a quantitative model to characterise the complexity of composite particles. <br />By my book, an international conference worthy of putting on one’s “must attend” list into the future. MEI, the organising committee, and contributing authors deserve compliments for such a strong presentation.<br /><br />Norman O. Lotter<br />Consulting Metallurgist<br />Xstrata Process Support<br />Sudbury, Ontario<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com