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Gorceix International Symposium (12th Intl. Symp. on Sustainable Minerals and Metals Processing)


Mineral


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SYMPOSIUM and ROUND TABLE TOPICS
SYMPOSIUM TOPICS
  • Process Mineralogy and Mineral Characterization
  • Comminution and Classification: Fundamentals and Equipment Design
  • Physical separation methods: gravity concentration, magnetic and electrostatic separation
  • Flotation: reagents and equipment
  • Green-Flotation, Bio-flotation
  • Colloids and Surface Chemistry Fundamentals
  • Dewatering and Agglomeration
  • Extractive Metallurgy, Bio-Hydrometallurgy
  • Strategic Minerals Recovery / REE and Precious-Metal Minerals Processing
  • Innovation in Mineral Processing
  • Coal Processing
  • Processing of Industrial Minerals
  • Non-Sulfide flotation
  • Mining and Mineral Processing of Complex Ores
  • Critical Mineral Raw Materials
  • Energy Minerals
  • Process Control, Modelling and Simulation
  • Optimization in Mineral Processing
  • Plant and Process Design & Operating Practice
  • Sustainability in Mineral Processing
  • Tailings Management
  • Water Management
  • Waste Characterization
  • Recycling and Utilization of Industrial and E-waste
  • Recycling of Bio-waste and Bio-mining
  • Secondary Resource Recovery
  • Solid Waste Treatment (mechanical, biological, chemical, thermal, other)
  • Soil Remediation
  • Circular Economy
  • Renewable Energies
  • Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development
  • Economic Aspects in Mineral Processing
  • Education Aspects related to Mineral Processing, Recycling and Sustainable Development
  • Legislation Aspects on Environmental Protection and Waste Management
  • Policy issues related to Extractive Industry
  • Battery Recycling
ROUND TABLE TOPICS
Round Table topics include the symposium topics above as well as some specific topics described below: (Participants are free to add topics as per their interest)
  • Modern Process Mineralogy (refractory and complex ores, etc.)
    • Dealing with the treatment of difficult and complex ores that require more sophisticated characterisation and understanding
    • Dealing with the treatment of lower grade minerals containing deleterious elements that require tailored treatment
    • Applying a more sustainable approach including environmental and societal considerations in process mineralogical assessment providing the critical information that stands between failure or collapse and survival or success of some mining operations
  • Sustainability and Extractive Industry
  • New Processes and Technologies in Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy
  • Strategic and REE Minerals Processing
  • Current and Future Challenges in Mineral Processing
  • Sampling
    • Errors in sampling and consequences in metal accounting.
    • Sampling improvement for the advance of the plant performance.
  • Grinding Strategies
    • Improving the efficiency of this least efficient circuit in the concentrator
    • Improving the shape and particle size distribution for good metal recovery in flotation or in gravity separation
    • Improving the electrochemical potential of the grinding circuit product
  • Selectivity in Flotation
    • Minimizing disturbances in the sulphide flotation processes of problematic minerals such as the iron sulphides pyrite and pyrrhotite, and talc
  • Collectors in Flotation
    • Improving sulfide flotation using green collectors, which do not produce carbon disulphide and are more selective
    • Improving metallurgical performance as compared to the single xanthate arrangement

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CHAIRS

Florian Kongoli
Dr. Florian Kongoli
CEO/President
FLOGEN Technologies
Canada, [Bio]
Cristovam Paes de Oliveira
Dr. Cristovam Paes de Oliveira
Executive President
Gorceix Foundation
Brazil, [Bio]
Georgios N. Anastassakis
Dr. Georgios N. Anastassakis
Professor
National Technical U. of Athens
Greece, [Bio]
Ljubisa Andric
Dr. Ljubisa Andric
Professor
Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia
Serbia, [Bio]
Konstantinos Aravossis
Dr. Konstantinos Aravossis
Professor
National Technical U. of Athens
Greece, [Bio]
Valentin Chanturiya
Dr. Valentin Chanturiya
Professor
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation, [Bio]
Ioannis Chatjigeorgiou
Dr. Ioannis Chatjigeorgiou
Professor
National Technical U. of Athens
Greece, [Bio]
Andrey Dmitriev
Dr. Andrey Dmitriev
Professor, Chief Research Officer
Inst. of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation, [Bio]
Jose Adilson de Castro
Dr. Jose Adilson de Castro
Metallurgical Engineer
Federal Fluminense U.
Brazil, [Bio]
Douglas Fuerstenau
Dr. Douglas Fuerstenau
Professor
U. of California, Berkeley
USA, [Bio]
Mery-Cecilia Gomez Marroquin
Dr. Mery-Cecilia Gomez Marroquin
Professor
National U. of Engineering
Peru, [Bio]
Yakov Gordon
Dr. Yakov Gordon
Technical Director
Hatch
Canada, [Bio]
Madali Naimanbayev
Dr. Madali Naimanbayev
Professor, Leading Researcher
National Center for Integrated Processing of Mineral Raw Materials
Kazakhstan, [Bio]
Vladko Panayotov
Dr. Vladko Panayotov
Professor
Bulgarian Academy of Science
Bulgaria, [Bio]
Swatantra Prakash
Prof. Dr. Swatantra Prakash
Chief Scientist
National Metallurgical Laboratory/CSIR
India, [Bio]
Julius Rubinstein
Dr. Julius Rubinstein
Professor
Russian Academy of Mining Science
USA, Russian Federation, [Bio]
Vladimir Tsepelev
Dr. Vladimir Tsepelev
Professor
Boris Yeltsin Ural Federal U.
Russian Federation, [Bio]