The pandemic still rages on, fueled in England by mass gatherings, such as the G7 summit in Cornwall in June (posting of 1st July) and July's major sporting events in London. The 2-week Wimbledon tennis tournament was watched by thousands, while at Wembley Stadium the semi-finals and final of Euro 2020 were attended by tens of thousands of football fans. There were egregious scenes inside and ..read more

We welcome the world's largest supplier of specialty mining chemicals, Solvay, as a sponsor of Flotation '21. Solvay supported Flotation '17 and Flotation '19 and prior to that US-based Cytec was a regular sponsor of the flotation series before being acquired by Solvay in 2015. I last met up with some of the group members at last year's SME Meeting in Phoenix, shortly before the world went mad ..read more

The 2020 Journal Impact Factors (IF) have recently been published, and it is good to see that the IFs for the leading mineral processing journals have all increased. Mineral Processing & Extractive Metallurgy Review 5.284Minerals Engineering  4.765Hydrometallurgy 4.156Minerals 2.644International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy & Materials 2.232Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly 1.456Physicochemical ..read more

Sad news today from Iran of the death of Prof. Akbar Farzanegan, of the School of Mining Engineering, College of Engineering at the University of Tehran.Prof. Farzanegan received his PhD degree from McGill University, Canada under the supervision of the late Professor André R. Laplante.His main research was related to mineral processing and applying knowledge-based approach solutions such as ..read more

The 4th Industrial revolution and the fight against climate change is straining the sustainable use of the Earth’s natural resources due to modern society’s extensive use of metals, materials and products. An astute and conscious application and use of metals, materials and products supported by the reuse and recycling of these materials and end-of-life products is imperative to the preservation ..read more

We are enjoying hot weather this week in Cornwall with temperatures over 25C. Although the Government controversially removed most Coronavirus restrictions on Monday, overseas travel is nowhere near back to normal, so the crowds have been pouring into the south west, and Falmouth's main beaches have been busy, although the locals have found relative solitude in the nearby coves.Falmouth's ..read more

In 2017 we were pleased to announce that Kemtec, a new Australian company, supplying specialty flotation reagents to tackle plant challenges, was to sponsor Flotation '17 in Cape Town. Two years later we welcomed the young company back as a sponsor of Flotation '19.The company has grown since then and is now a global group of specialised mineral processing reagent companies, located in USA ..read more

Falmouth's Gyllyngvase beach once more provided the venue for the Cornish Mining Sundowner, and on a warm sunny evening is there anywhere better?It was good to see a number of new faces among the regulars, including Mark Alcock and his wife Linda, who are down here on holiday from Guildford, about 250 miles away. Mark graduated from Camborne School of Mines in 1978 and is now a consultant to HS2 ..read more

As the pandemic continues to rage in many countries, we are sorry to have to announce that Comminution '22, scheduled for Cape Town next April, has been postponed to the following year.Details of Comminution '23 will be announced in due course, but we would like to take this opportunity of thanking our sponsors, who are continuing to support the conference in these difficult times.  ..read more

There have been comments on the following postings since the last update:Controversial "invisible gold" paper publishedApril update: Coronavirus; tin, the 'forgotten' critical metal; the increasing importance of the mining industryGwennap to Carn MarthReturn to ChingolaTintagel to Port Isaac- a real challenge!Prof DV Subba Rao, 1954-2021Memories of the Nchanga Tailings Leach PlantThe Rare ..read more