Pyrometallurgy Luncheon honouring
Phillip Mackey and Carlos Díaz

Being held: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:10 - 13:40 (Tickets Required) at the Fairmont Hotel

A special lunch will take place on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at the Fairmont Hotel in honor of two pioneers of the Copper-Cobre Conference series. You can order your tickets threw the online registration software. Get an advance glimpse of Mr. Díaz and Mr. Mackey's keynote paper being presented: Monday, August 27, 2007 at The Carlos Díaz Symposium on Pyrometallurgy:

PAPER TITLE: THE COPPER-COBRE SERIES OF CONFERENCES: A PRIME FORUM FOR ACTIVE DISCUSSION OF COPPER SMELTING TECHNOLOGY PRACTICE AND INNOVATION
by Carlos Díaz and Phillip Mackey

ABSTRACT

Since its inception, in 1987, the Copper-Cobre series of conferences has established itself as the prime world forum for discussing advances in copper process metallurgy, in particular copper sulfide smelting, copper recovery by leaching and electrowinning and copper electrorefining. All copper producing countries have actively participated in the pyrometallurgy symposia held in the framework of these conferences. In 1999 and 2003, the close to 100 pyrometallurgy papers that were presented had to be accommodated in two volumes. In the present paper*, the authors firstly provide a brief historical sketch of the Copper-Cobre conferences and then focus on providing a retrospective look at the dramatic changes that have taken place in copper smelting in the last few decades, primarily as discussed in the Copper-Cobre and precursor conferences pyrometallurgy proceedings. Topics include: the development of autogenous, increasingly more intensive, environmentally sound and energy efficient smelting processes; significant improvements in Peirce-Smith converting practice and at the same time the commercialization of alternative continuous converting routes; the consequent expansion and modernization of smelters; the increasing compliance with strict government environmental regulations in most copper producing regions of the world; the realignment of the copper smelting industry throughout the world; and trends in copper smelting R&D. A look at the future closes these reflections on the contribution of the Copper-Cobre conferences to the advancement of copper smelting technology. See advanced publication....