TECHNICAL PROGRAM

The technical program highlighted such topics as:

• Fundamentals of MINERAL PROCESSING in honour of Professor Jim Finch.
• HYDROMETALLURGICAL Processing of Nickel, Cobalt and Valuable By-products.
  
• Advances in the Processing of Nickel, Cobalt and PGMs using YROMETALLURGICAL Techniques.
  
• An Update on Existing Plants, and a Review of Proposed Projects (for Hydro, Pyro or Mineral Processing.
• Upgrading of LATERITES.
• Current MANAGEMENTand Human Resource Issues.
• MATERIALS Development and Performance of Sulphur Capture Plants.
• PROCESS CONTROL Applications in Mining and Metallurgical Plants.
• Applied MINERALOGY in Mining/Metallurgical Plants, with a strong emphasis on how these techniques can be used to design, improve and optimize the performance of metallurgical plants.
• GREEN TECHNOLOGIES for the Mining and Metallurgical Industries.
  
  

In addition to the above-listed symposia, COM 2009 highlighted a poster session.