COMMITTEES

Conference Organizing Committee

Conference Chair Nathan Stubina Barrick Gold Corporation Brookfield Place TD Canada Trust Tower 161 Bay Street, Suite 3700 P.O. Box 212 Toronto, Ontario Canada M5J 2S1 Tel: (416) 307-7455 nstubina@barrick.com	Technical Program Chair Ron Schonewille Xstrata Nickel Projects and Exploration 100 King Street West Suite 6900, P.O. Box 403 Toronto, Ontario Canada M5X 1E3 Tel: (416) 775-1520 rschonewille@xstratanickel.ca	TMS EPD Chair Rob Stephens Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. 25 Aldridge Ave. Trail, British Columbia Canada V1R 4L8 Tel: (250) 364-4295 rob.stephens@teckcominco.com
TMS Representative Adrian Deneys Praxair, Inc. 175 East Park Drive Tonawanda, New York 14150 United States Tel: (716) 879-2409 adrian_deneys@praxair.com	Treasurer, Event Manager Brigitte Farah Metallurgical Society of CIM 3400 de Maisonneuve West Montreal, Quebec Canada H3Z 3B8 Tel: (514) 939-2710, ext. 1329 bfarah@cim.org	Sponsorship Chair Michael King Metallurgical Society of CIM 3400 de Maisonneuve West Montreal, Quebec Canada H3Z 3B8 Tel: (514) 939-2710, ext. 1329 Michaelking806@comcast.net
Short Course / Student Activities Chair Eduard Guerra Laurentian University School of Engineering Ramsey Lake Road Sudbury, Ontario Canada P3E 2C6 Tel: (705) 675-1151, ext. 2244 eguerra@laurentian.ca	Industrial Tours Chair Jeff Chenier Xstrata Nickel Xstrata Nickel Sudbury Smelter Falconbridge, Ontario Canada P0M 1S0 Tel: (705) 693-2761, ext. 3707 jrchenier@xstratanickel.ca	Companions Chair Maureen Stubina Metallurgical Society of CIM 3400 de Maisonneuve West Montreal, Quebec Canada H3Z 3B8 Tel.: (905) 257-4715 Cell: (905) 484-1963 mandn.stubina@sympatico.ca
Proceedings Chair Sina Kashani-Nejad Hatch Non-Ferrous Pyrometallurgy 2800 Speakman Drive Mississauga, Ontario Canada L5K 2R7 Tel: (905) 403-3822 skashani-nejad@hatch.ca	Poster Session Chair Mansoor Barati University of Toronto Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering Room 140, 184 College Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 3E4 Tel: (416) 978-5637 mansoor.barati@utoronto.ca	Trade Show Chair Dave Tisdale Xstrata Nickel Xstrata Nickel Sudbury Smelter Falconbridge, Ontario Canada P0M 1S0 Tel: (705) 693-2761, ext. 3948 DTisdale@xstratanickel.ca
Publicity Chair Marcus R. Coffin jmcoffin@sympatico.ca	CMP (Canadian Mineral Processors) Representative Dominic Fragomeni Xstrata Process Support Materials Technology Group Falconbridge, Ontario Canada P0M 1S0 Tel: (705) 693-2761, ext. 3404 dfragomeni@xstrataprocesssupport.ca

Technical Program Committee - Main Contacts

Hydrometallurgy of Nickel & Cobalt, including the Processing of Valuable By-products Containing Material 39th Annual Hydrometallurgy Meeting James Budac Sherritt International Corporation 149 Foxboro Way Sherwood Park, Alberta Canada T8A 5Y6 Tel: (780) 992-7075 jbudac@sherrittmetals.com	Advances in the Processing of Nickel, Cobalt & PGMs Pyrometallurgical Techniques Jin Liu Vale Inco Ltd. 2060 Flavelle Blvd. Sheridan Park Mississauga, Ontario Canada L5K 1Z9 Tel.: (905) 403-2616 jin.liu@valeinco.com	Advances in Flotation Science & Flotation Science & and Technology In honour of James A. Finch 7th UBC-McGill-UA Biennial Int'l Sym. Cesar Gomez McGill University Dept. of Mining & Materials Eng. 3610 University Street, Room 2580 Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A 2B2 Tel: (514) 398-4755, ext. 0332 cesar.gomez@mcgill.ca
Upgrading of Laterites Boyd Davis Kingston Process Metallurgy Inc. 1102 Lancaster Drive Kingston, Ontario Canada K7P 2L7 Tel: (613) 547-0116, ext. 141 bdavis@kpm.ca	Management in Metallurgy Human Resource Management Dan Ashman Teck Ltd. Applied Research P.O. Box 2000 Trail, British Columbia Canada V1R 4S4 Tel: (250) 364-4446 dan.ashman@teck.com	Materials Development & Performance of Sulphur Capture Plants Connie Barry McMaster University 1280 Main Street W. Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4L7 Tel.: (905) 525-9140 cbarry@mcmaster.ca
Process Control Applications in Mining & Metallurgical Plants Helen Shang Laurentian University School of Engineering Ramsey Lake Road Sudbury, Ontario Canada P3E 2C6 Tel: (705) 675-1151 hshang@laurentian.ca	Green Technologies for the Mining & Metallurgical Industries S.R. (Ram) Rao McGill University Dept. of Mining & Materials Eng. 3610 University Street, Room 2580 Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A 2B2 Tel: (514) 398-4755 Ram.Rao@mcgill.ca	Applied Mineralogy Flowsheet Design & Plant Optimization Peter Whittaker Xstrata Process Support Materials Technology Group Falconbridge, Ontario Canada P0M 1S0 Tel: (705) 693-2761, ext. 3412 pwhittaker@xstrataprocesssupport.ca