International Nickel-Cobalt 2013 Symposium
March 3-7, 2013 (TMS Annual Meeting) • San Antonio, Texas • USA
The 2013 TMS International Nickel-Cobalt Symposium will provide a forum for presenting and discussing advancements in all aspects of nickel and cobalt processing including: fundamentals, technology, operating practices, and related areas of Platinum-Group Metals (PGM) processing. This symposium follows the successful Ni-Co symposium held as part of COM2009. It will focus on the treatment of sulphide and laterite ores, concentrates and secondary materials for the production of nickel and cobalt.
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Abstracts are requested by July 15, 2012 on the following topics:
- Mining
- Mineral Processing
- Pyrometallurgy
- Hydrometallurgy
- Electrometallurgy
- Physical Metallurgy – Including Waste Treatment and Recycling
Areas of interest within these topics are: operational updates; project and process development; R&D initiatives; emerging technologies; PGM co-production; sustainability; environmental stewardship; health and safety; downstream applications.
Authors should represent these areas:
- Mining companies
- Metals producers
- End-users
- Equipment suppliers
- Engineering consultants
- Academia
Organizers
- (Lead) Thomas P. Battle, Midrex Technologies
- Mike Moats, University of Utah
- Shijie Wang, Kennecott
- Antoine Allanore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Corby Anderson, Colorado School of Mines
- Ron Schonewille, Xstrata Nickel
- Shafiq Alam, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Violina Cocalia, Cytec
- Xingbo Liu, West Virginia University
Sponsors
- TMS Extraction & Processing Division
- TMS High Temperature Alloys Committee
- GDMB Society for Mining, Metallurgy, Resource and Environmental Technology
- The Metallurgical Society of the CIM
- The Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan (MMIJ)
- Mining Engineering International
- SF2M: SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE METALLURGIE ET DE MATERIAUX
- Society of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
- Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- High Temperature Materials Committee of the Chinese Society for Metals
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For more information about this meeting, please complete the meeting inquiry form or contact:
TMS Meeting Services
184 Thorn Hill Road
Warrendale , PA 15086-7514 USA
Telephone (724) 776-9000, ext. 243
(800) 759-4TMS
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