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Calendar of international conferences, symposia, courses and meetings of interest
Minerals Engineering, Vol. 11, No. I0, pp. 993-996, 1998
Pergamon 0892-6875(98)00086-7
© 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd All fights reserved 0892-6875/98/$ - - see front matter
CALENDAR OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, COURSES AND MEETINGS OF INTEREST
1998 Oct.11-14
Mine to Mill Conference. Brisbane, Australia. Dr. S. Morrell, JKMRC, Isles Road, Indoorroopilly, Fax: 61-7-3365-5999. E-mall: [email protected]
Qld. 4068,
Australia.
Oct. 19-22
ALTA 1998 Copper Hydrometallurgy Forum/Copper Sulphides Symposium. Brisbane, Australia. ALTA Metallurgical Services, PO Box 126, Blackburn South, Victoria 3130, Australia. Fax: +61 3 9877 9336. E-mail: [email protected]
Oct. 19-21
CAMI '98: 4th Conference on Computer Applications in the Mineral Industry. Saskatoon, Canada. Doug Stead. Fax: 306-966-8593. E-mail: [email protected]
Nov. 17-20
Randol at Vancouver '98. Vancouver, Canada. Randol International Ltd., 13701 West Jewell Ave., Suite 114, Lakewood, CO 80228, USA. Fax: (303) 986-5679
Dec.6-11
Beneficiation of Phosphate: 2nd International Conference. Palm Coast, USA. Engineering Foundation, 345 E. 47th Street, New York, NY 10017, USA. Fax: 1-212-705-7441. E-mail: [email protected]
Dec.9-12
International Conference on Metallurgical Technologies. Varanasi, India. Prof. V. Singh, Centre of Advanced Study, Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005, India. Fax (91) (542) 317074. E-mall: platinum @banaras.ernet.in
1999 Jan.20-22
International Symposium on Beneficiation, Agglomeration and Environment. Bhubaneswar, India. D.N. Dey, ISBAN-99, Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar-751 013, India. Fax: (0674) 581637. E-mail: [email protected]
March 1--4
SME Annual Meeting. Denver, USA. Meetings Dept., SME Inc., PO Box 625002, Littleton, CO 80162-5002, USA
March 8-11
Coal Utilization & Fuel Systems. Clearwater, USA. Coal Utilization & Fuel Systems Conference Committee, 1156 Fifteenth Street, N.W., Suite 525, Washington, D.C. 20005, USA. Fax: 202/223-3504. E-mail: [email protected]
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994
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March 15-17
Minerals Engineering Symposium: Gravity '99. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Gravity '99. CSM Associates Ltd, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3SE, England. Fax: +44 (0) 1326-318352. E-mail: mineng @netmatters.co.uk
April 21-23
Murray Basin Mineral Sands Conference. Mildura, Australia. PO Box 1298, Mail Centre Ballarat, Vic. 3354, Australia. Fax: (613) 5333 6516. E-mail: [email protected]
May 2-5
101st AGM of CIM. Calgary, Canada. Chantal Murphy, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, 3400 de Malsonneuve Blvd., Suite 1210, Montreal, Quebec H3Z 3B8, Canada. Fax: (514) 939-2714
May 3-5
Recent Advances in Materials and Mineral Resources. Penang, Malaysia. The Secretariat, RAMM '99, School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Perak Branch Campus, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia. Fax: (605) 367-7444. E-mail: [email protected]
May 9-14
Fifth International Conference on Fluid-Particle Interactions. Santa Fe, USA. Engineering Foundation Conferences, 345 East 47th Street, Suite 303, New York, NY 10017, USA. Fax: 1-212-705-7441. E-mall: [email protected]
May 10-13
ALTA 1999 Nickel/Cobalt Pressure Leaching & Hydrometallurgy Forum, Ni/Co Hydrometallurgy Round Table. Perth, Australia. ALTA Metallurgical Services, PO Box 126, Blackburn South, Vic, 3130, Australia. Fax: +61 3 9877 9336. E-mail: [email protected]
June 15-18
16th Mining Congress and Exhibition of Turkey. Ankara, Turkey Prof. U. Atalay, The Chamber of Mining Engineers of Turkey, Selanik Caddesi No. 19/3, 06650 Kizilay-Ankara, Turkey. Fax: (90) 312 418 3657. E-mail: atalay @narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr
June 20-23
Biohydrometallurgy and the Environment towards the mining of the 21st Century.
Madrid, Spain. IBS-99, Facultad de Ciencias Quimica, Dep. de Ciencia de los Materiales e Ingenieria Metalurgica, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Fax: 34-1-394 4357. E-mail:[email protected] July 10-15
IPMM '99. Second International Conference on Intelligent Processing and Manufacturing of Materials. Hawaii, USA. IPMM '99 Conference Secretariat, University of British Columbia, Dept. of Mining & Mineral Process Engineering, 6350 Stores Road, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 17_,4, Canada. Fax: (604) 822-5599. E-mail: [email protected]
Aug. 22-26
Annual Conference of Metallurgists of CIM. Quebec, Canada. CIM Secretarial, 3400 de Maisonneuve Blvd., Suite 1210, Montreal, Quebec H3Z 3B8, Canada. Fax: (514) 939-2714. E-mail: [email protected]
Aug.22-26
Optimization and Control in Minerals, Metals and Materials Processing. Quebec, Canada. Daniel Hodouin, Mining & Metallurgy Dept., Laval University, Sainte-Foy (Quebec), Canada G1K 7P4. Fax: (418) 656-5343. E-mail: [email protected]
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Aug.22-26
The Use of Polymers in Mineral Processing. Quebec City, Canada. Prof. J.S. Laskowski, Dept. of Mining & Mineral Process Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4. Fax (604) 822-5599. E-mail: [email protected]
Sept.5-9
Global Symposium on Recycling, Waste Treatment and Clean Technology. San Sebastian, Spain. Dr. R. Solozabal, General Secretary of REWAS '99, INASMET, Camino de Portuetxe 12, B° de Igara, E-20.009 San Sebastian, Spain. Fax: +34-43-217560. E-mail: [email protected]
Sept.22-24
Minerals Engineering '99. Falmouth, England. Minerals Engineering '99. CSMA Minerals Ltd, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3SE, England. Fax: +44 (0) 1326-318352. E-mail: [email protected]
2000 March 6-9
SME Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, USA. Meetings Dept., SME Inc., PO Box 625002, Littleton, CO 80162-5002, USA
July 23-28
XXI International Mineral Processing Congress. Rome, Italy. XXI IMPC Organizing Committee, c/o Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica dei Materiali, delle Materie Prime e Metallurgia, PO Box 5077, 00153 Roma Ostiense, Italy. Fax: +39.6.44585.343. E-mail: [email protected]
2001 Feb 26March 1
SME Annual Meeting. Denver, USA. Meetings Dept., SME Inc., PO Box 625002, Littleton, CO 80162-5002, USA
2002 March 11-13
SME Annual Meeting. Phoenix, USA. Meetings Dept., SME Inc., PO Box 625002, Littleton, CO 80162-5002, USA
2003 Oct.6-10
XII International Mineral Processing Congress. Cape Town, South Africa. Mrs. Meg Winter, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa. Fax: +27- (0)21-689-7579. E-mail: [email protected]
A n updated calendar o f events, including direct links to relevant conference h o m e pages, can be f o u n d on Internet, on the News section o f w w w . c s m a . c o . u k / c o n f / m e c i n d e x . h t m
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Calendar and ConferenceReport
CONFERENCE REPORT The Fourth Conference on Environment and Mineral Processing Ostrava, Czech Republic, June 25-27, 1998
Ostrava in the Czech Republic is an old coal mining town and at present an important industrial center. The conference was held at the Mining University of Ostrava which is actually situated in Poruba, a suburb of Ostrava. The Mining University was originally founded in Pribram in 1849 after the Hungarian uprising and teaching in the Mining Academy in Schemnitz was converted from German to Hungarian. In 1951, the school was moved to its present location Ostava-Poruba to specialize in coal mining and steelmaking. The conference was an intensive two working days followed by a bus tour in the surroundings during the third day. A banquet was held in the evening of the first day which included folk dancing. A beer-drinking party was held in the second day which included a traditional miners guild ceremony during which many participants were dressed in traditional mining costumes and mining songs were sung. A two-volume proceedings in English was available on registration which included 100 papers, each paper was restricted to about seven pages. The volumes, about 350 pages each, can be purchased for US $100. They are fairly well presented but unfortunately not organized according to subject matter and lack an author index. They were edited by Docent Peter Fecko of the Institute of Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Mining and Geology and who was also Chairman of the conference. The conference is an annual event and potential participants for future conferences can plan an impressive stop-over in Prague, Kutna Hora, Brno, and other interesting historical and cultural cities. The Czech Republic is recovering very fast after so many decades of communist rule. Many authors from abroad did not attend the conference and the number of participants was 92 of which 50 were from the Czech Republic, 15 from Slovakia, 15 from the former Eastern Block countries, and the rest from Western countries. The official languages of the Conference were English, Czech and Slovak with simultaneous translation. The Conference started at 8:15 a.m. immediately after a few welcoming words from the chairman and ended at 6:30 p.m. with few coffee-breaks. This is unusual for Western participants who are accustomed to a get together evening reception before the opening ceremony next day followed by a plenary session. Ostrava has an important mining museum, a history museum, an Opera House, many interesting buildings, and an "Erratic Rock" which is a 7.2 tons granite boulder located at the terminal of the tram line to Koncisa, a suburb of Ostrava. It is said that this boulder dates from glacial times. Decent Ferko and his Organizing Committee did an excellent job and are to be congratulated for their efforts.
Fathi Habashi Dept. of Mining & Metallurgy Laval University Quebec City Canada GIK 7P4
Pergamon 0892-6875(98)00086-7
© 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd All fights reserved 0892-6875/98/$ - - see front matter
CALENDAR OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, COURSES AND MEETINGS OF INTEREST
1998 Oct.11-14
Mine to Mill Conference. Brisbane, Australia. Dr. S. Morrell, JKMRC, Isles Road, Indoorroopilly, Fax: 61-7-3365-5999. E-mall: [email protected]
Qld. 4068,
Australia.
Oct. 19-22
ALTA 1998 Copper Hydrometallurgy Forum/Copper Sulphides Symposium. Brisbane, Australia. ALTA Metallurgical Services, PO Box 126, Blackburn South, Victoria 3130, Australia. Fax: +61 3 9877 9336. E-mail: [email protected]
Oct. 19-21
CAMI '98: 4th Conference on Computer Applications in the Mineral Industry. Saskatoon, Canada. Doug Stead. Fax: 306-966-8593. E-mail: [email protected]
Nov. 17-20
Randol at Vancouver '98. Vancouver, Canada. Randol International Ltd., 13701 West Jewell Ave., Suite 114, Lakewood, CO 80228, USA. Fax: (303) 986-5679
Dec.6-11
Beneficiation of Phosphate: 2nd International Conference. Palm Coast, USA. Engineering Foundation, 345 E. 47th Street, New York, NY 10017, USA. Fax: 1-212-705-7441. E-mail: [email protected]
Dec.9-12
International Conference on Metallurgical Technologies. Varanasi, India. Prof. V. Singh, Centre of Advanced Study, Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005, India. Fax (91) (542) 317074. E-mall: platinum @banaras.ernet.in
1999 Jan.20-22
International Symposium on Beneficiation, Agglomeration and Environment. Bhubaneswar, India. D.N. Dey, ISBAN-99, Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar-751 013, India. Fax: (0674) 581637. E-mail: [email protected]
March 1--4
SME Annual Meeting. Denver, USA. Meetings Dept., SME Inc., PO Box 625002, Littleton, CO 80162-5002, USA
March 8-11
Coal Utilization & Fuel Systems. Clearwater, USA. Coal Utilization & Fuel Systems Conference Committee, 1156 Fifteenth Street, N.W., Suite 525, Washington, D.C. 20005, USA. Fax: 202/223-3504. E-mail: [email protected]
993
994
Calendarand ConferenceReport
March 15-17
Minerals Engineering Symposium: Gravity '99. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Gravity '99. CSM Associates Ltd, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3SE, England. Fax: +44 (0) 1326-318352. E-mail: mineng @netmatters.co.uk
April 21-23
Murray Basin Mineral Sands Conference. Mildura, Australia. PO Box 1298, Mail Centre Ballarat, Vic. 3354, Australia. Fax: (613) 5333 6516. E-mail: [email protected]
May 2-5
101st AGM of CIM. Calgary, Canada. Chantal Murphy, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, 3400 de Malsonneuve Blvd., Suite 1210, Montreal, Quebec H3Z 3B8, Canada. Fax: (514) 939-2714
May 3-5
Recent Advances in Materials and Mineral Resources. Penang, Malaysia. The Secretariat, RAMM '99, School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Perak Branch Campus, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia. Fax: (605) 367-7444. E-mail: [email protected]
May 9-14
Fifth International Conference on Fluid-Particle Interactions. Santa Fe, USA. Engineering Foundation Conferences, 345 East 47th Street, Suite 303, New York, NY 10017, USA. Fax: 1-212-705-7441. E-mall: [email protected]
May 10-13
ALTA 1999 Nickel/Cobalt Pressure Leaching & Hydrometallurgy Forum, Ni/Co Hydrometallurgy Round Table. Perth, Australia. ALTA Metallurgical Services, PO Box 126, Blackburn South, Vic, 3130, Australia. Fax: +61 3 9877 9336. E-mail: [email protected]
June 15-18
16th Mining Congress and Exhibition of Turkey. Ankara, Turkey Prof. U. Atalay, The Chamber of Mining Engineers of Turkey, Selanik Caddesi No. 19/3, 06650 Kizilay-Ankara, Turkey. Fax: (90) 312 418 3657. E-mail: atalay @narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr
June 20-23
Biohydrometallurgy and the Environment towards the mining of the 21st Century.
Madrid, Spain. IBS-99, Facultad de Ciencias Quimica, Dep. de Ciencia de los Materiales e Ingenieria Metalurgica, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Fax: 34-1-394 4357. E-mail:[email protected] July 10-15
IPMM '99. Second International Conference on Intelligent Processing and Manufacturing of Materials. Hawaii, USA. IPMM '99 Conference Secretariat, University of British Columbia, Dept. of Mining & Mineral Process Engineering, 6350 Stores Road, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 17_,4, Canada. Fax: (604) 822-5599. E-mail: [email protected]
Aug. 22-26
Annual Conference of Metallurgists of CIM. Quebec, Canada. CIM Secretarial, 3400 de Maisonneuve Blvd., Suite 1210, Montreal, Quebec H3Z 3B8, Canada. Fax: (514) 939-2714. E-mail: [email protected]
Aug.22-26
Optimization and Control in Minerals, Metals and Materials Processing. Quebec, Canada. Daniel Hodouin, Mining & Metallurgy Dept., Laval University, Sainte-Foy (Quebec), Canada G1K 7P4. Fax: (418) 656-5343. E-mail: [email protected]
Calendarand ConferenceReport
995
Aug.22-26
The Use of Polymers in Mineral Processing. Quebec City, Canada. Prof. J.S. Laskowski, Dept. of Mining & Mineral Process Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4. Fax (604) 822-5599. E-mail: [email protected]
Sept.5-9
Global Symposium on Recycling, Waste Treatment and Clean Technology. San Sebastian, Spain. Dr. R. Solozabal, General Secretary of REWAS '99, INASMET, Camino de Portuetxe 12, B° de Igara, E-20.009 San Sebastian, Spain. Fax: +34-43-217560. E-mail: [email protected]
Sept.22-24
Minerals Engineering '99. Falmouth, England. Minerals Engineering '99. CSMA Minerals Ltd, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3SE, England. Fax: +44 (0) 1326-318352. E-mail: [email protected]
2000 March 6-9
SME Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, USA. Meetings Dept., SME Inc., PO Box 625002, Littleton, CO 80162-5002, USA
July 23-28
XXI International Mineral Processing Congress. Rome, Italy. XXI IMPC Organizing Committee, c/o Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica dei Materiali, delle Materie Prime e Metallurgia, PO Box 5077, 00153 Roma Ostiense, Italy. Fax: +39.6.44585.343. E-mail: [email protected]
2001 Feb 26March 1
SME Annual Meeting. Denver, USA. Meetings Dept., SME Inc., PO Box 625002, Littleton, CO 80162-5002, USA
2002 March 11-13
SME Annual Meeting. Phoenix, USA. Meetings Dept., SME Inc., PO Box 625002, Littleton, CO 80162-5002, USA
2003 Oct.6-10
XII International Mineral Processing Congress. Cape Town, South Africa. Mrs. Meg Winter, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa. Fax: +27- (0)21-689-7579. E-mail: [email protected]
A n updated calendar o f events, including direct links to relevant conference h o m e pages, can be f o u n d on Internet, on the News section o f w w w . c s m a . c o . u k / c o n f / m e c i n d e x . h t m
996
Calendar and ConferenceReport
CONFERENCE REPORT The Fourth Conference on Environment and Mineral Processing Ostrava, Czech Republic, June 25-27, 1998
Ostrava in the Czech Republic is an old coal mining town and at present an important industrial center. The conference was held at the Mining University of Ostrava which is actually situated in Poruba, a suburb of Ostrava. The Mining University was originally founded in Pribram in 1849 after the Hungarian uprising and teaching in the Mining Academy in Schemnitz was converted from German to Hungarian. In 1951, the school was moved to its present location Ostava-Poruba to specialize in coal mining and steelmaking. The conference was an intensive two working days followed by a bus tour in the surroundings during the third day. A banquet was held in the evening of the first day which included folk dancing. A beer-drinking party was held in the second day which included a traditional miners guild ceremony during which many participants were dressed in traditional mining costumes and mining songs were sung. A two-volume proceedings in English was available on registration which included 100 papers, each paper was restricted to about seven pages. The volumes, about 350 pages each, can be purchased for US $100. They are fairly well presented but unfortunately not organized according to subject matter and lack an author index. They were edited by Docent Peter Fecko of the Institute of Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Mining and Geology and who was also Chairman of the conference. The conference is an annual event and potential participants for future conferences can plan an impressive stop-over in Prague, Kutna Hora, Brno, and other interesting historical and cultural cities. The Czech Republic is recovering very fast after so many decades of communist rule. Many authors from abroad did not attend the conference and the number of participants was 92 of which 50 were from the Czech Republic, 15 from Slovakia, 15 from the former Eastern Block countries, and the rest from Western countries. The official languages of the Conference were English, Czech and Slovak with simultaneous translation. The Conference started at 8:15 a.m. immediately after a few welcoming words from the chairman and ended at 6:30 p.m. with few coffee-breaks. This is unusual for Western participants who are accustomed to a get together evening reception before the opening ceremony next day followed by a plenary session. Ostrava has an important mining museum, a history museum, an Opera House, many interesting buildings, and an "Erratic Rock" which is a 7.2 tons granite boulder located at the terminal of the tram line to Koncisa, a suburb of Ostrava. It is said that this boulder dates from glacial times. Decent Ferko and his Organizing Committee did an excellent job and are to be congratulated for their efforts.
Fathi Habashi Dept. of Mining & Metallurgy Laval University Quebec City Canada GIK 7P4