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IMPC 2010 – Plenary Speakers

	A Continuous Quest for Sustainability Roberto Castello Branco Director of Investor Relations, Vale Roberto Castello Branco has been the Director of Investor Relations at Vale since 1999. Mr Castello Branco is a former director of the Central Bank of Brazil and was also a Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Economics at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, President of IBMEC (a Brazilian business school) and a senior manager of Brazilian banks. Currently he is a Director of the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce in Brazil and a member of the Board of Directors of IBRI – Brazilian Institute of Investor Relations, INI – National Institute of Investors and ABRASCA – Brazilian Association of Publicly Listed Companies. He holds a PhD in Economics by Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil, and after completing his doctoral studies, Mr Castello Branco was a Post Doctoral Fellow in Economics at the University of Chicago, USA.
	Sensing, Data Fusion and Automation for Precision Mining Hugh Durrant-Whyte Research Director / Professor of Mechatron Engineering, Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR), The University of Sydney Hugh Durrant-Whyte leads the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) at the University of Sydney. The ACFR is the largest Field Robotics group in the world and is highly regarded for both research and its work with industry including automation in cargo handling, mining, defence, aerospace and marine systems. Hugh has published over 350 papers and has won numerous awards for his work, including the 2009 ATSE Clunies Ross Award, the 2007 IFR/IEEE Invention and Entrepreneurship Award, the 2004 New South Wales Pearcy Award. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE), of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) and of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA). He was named the 2008 Professional Engineer of the Year by the Institute of Engineers Australia Sydney Division.
	Interfacial Chemistry in Flotation of Diasporic Bauxite Yuehua Hu School of Minerals Processing and Bio-engineering, Central South University, China Yuehua Hu was born in January 1962 in Changsha, Hunan, China. He received his PhD in 1989 at the Central South University of Technology. He was a visiting scholar from 1995 to 1998 at the University of Utah. He is now the Dean and Professor of the School of Minerals Processing and Bio-engineering, Central South University; Vice Chairman of the Mineral Processing Academic Committee, Nonferrous Metals Society of China and Director of Mineral Processing Academic Committee of the China Mining Association. Professor Hu has been conducting research in the field of flotation reagents, solution chemistry and electrochemistry of flotation and bioleaching. He has published three books and 242 papers and edited two conference proceedings. He has 11 Chinese patents. His achievements have been highly praised in China. He received the China National Science and Technology Progress Prize (First Class) in 2000 for the “Theory and practice for sulfide potential-controlled flotation”; in 2007 (First Class) for “New technology for alumina production using reverse flotation to de-silica bauxite in the Bayer process” and in 2004 (Second Class) for “New technology for copper-leadzinc mineral flotation—the carrier, media and floc-assisting effect of coarse particles in fine particle flotation”.
	Pertti Korhonen President and CEO, Outotec Oyj Pertti Korhonen started his career in 1987 as Design Engineer at Nokia Corporation and held several senior management positions within Nokia including R&D, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Purchasing and Software Business. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Nokia in 2004 – 2006 and was a member of Nokia Group Executive Board in 2002 – 2006. Mr Korhonen served as CEO of Elektrobit Corporation Plc from 2006 to June 2009. In October 2009 he started as Chief Operating Officer at Outotec Oyj. Mr Korhonen is a Member of the Board of Directors with the following companies: Veho Group Oy since 2007 and Elisa Oyj since 2008.
	Real-Time Simulation in Process Engineering – Dream or Reality? Jinghai Li Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jinghai Li graduated from the Department of Thermal Engineering of the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1982. He entered a master’s degree program at his alma mater in the same year, obtained his PhD in 1987 from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing. He conducted his post-doctoral research at the City University of New York and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. After returning to China in 1990, he served as assistant professor, associate professor, professor, vice director and director of IPE in succession. In February 2004 he was appointed a vice president of CAS. His research is focused on the establishment of Multi-Scale Methodology for multi-phase complex systems and application of computer simulation in scaling-up chemical reactors. He proposed the multi-scale approach based on micro-scale of individual particles, meso-scale of particle aggregates and macro-scale of apparatus, formulated the variational criterion for the heterogeneous flow structure of particle-fluid systems and established the Energy-Minimisation Multi-Scale (EMMS) model which has been applied in different industries. In addition, the approach has been extended to many different complex systems to form a generalised methodology and to define a new paradigm of multi-scale computation, leading to the establishment of a multi-scale supercomputer and the realisation of 2D real-time simulation of fluidisation hydrodynamics.
	Innovation, Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Mineral Processing John Marsden President, Metallurgium John Marsden is a graduate of the Royal School of Mines, London, with a degree in Mineral Technology. He has 28 years of broad international experience managing major, innovative copper, gold, molybdenum and cobalt operations and projects in the USA, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and the Congo (DRC). Marsden has held various operations and technical management positions during nine years with Consolidated Gold Fields plc and eighteen years with Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc (formerly Phelps Dodge Corporation). He recently established an independent consulting business (Metallurgium), specialising in corporate strategy for project development and metallurgical technology development. He is on the Board of Directors of Romarco Minerals Inc and serves on a number of industry and university Boards. He is a registered professional engineer and has received a number of awards and recognitions for industry service. He is the author of The Chemistry of Gold Extraction (now in its second edition) and has published over 40 technical papers.
	Recent Metallurgical Developments and their Impact on Minerals Project Execution Greg Lane General Manager Technical Solutions, Ausenco Minerals & Metals Greg Lane is General Manager Technical Solutions for Ausenco Minerals & Metals. He has over twenty years experience in the field of metallurgy, engineering, design, construction and operation of processing plants. He has worked for Aberfoyle Resources, Western Mining Corporation, and Minproc in operational, engineering and management roles, predominantly focused on technology development and application.
	The impact of government policies on the mining industry Douglas Ritchie Doug joined Rio Tinto in 1986 from the coal industry and has held a number of management positions in various Rio Tinto businesses, including Exploration, Project Development, Energy, Industrial Minerals, Aluminium and as Managing Director of both Dampier Salt Limited (1997 – 2001) and Rio Tinto Diamonds (2005 – 2006).  He also led the teams responsible for Rio Tinto’s acquisition and integration of Ashton Mining Limited and was Head of Business Evaluation of Rio Tinto (2001 – 2005).  Until November 2007, Doug was the chief executive of Rio Tinto Coal Australia, which manages Rio Tinto’s Queensland coal assets and Coal & Allied’s coal business in New South Wales.  During this time Doug has lived and worked in most States in Australia as well as Japan, United Kingdom and Belgium. Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Energy, Doug was Managing Director – Strategy of Rio Tinto.  He is also a member of the Coal & Allied Board and, until recently, Chairman of the Rio Tinto Staff Superannuation Fund. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland, is a qualified barrister and solicitor; is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy; a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors; a Member of the Coal Industry Advisory Board and a Director of the World Coal Institute.
	Industrial Biotechnology and Ecogenomics in the Mining Industry Dr Robbert Kleerebezem Assistant Professor, Section of Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Robbert Kleerebezem (1966) holds a MSc and PhD in Environmental Engineering from Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Currently he is associate professor in Environmental Biotechnology at Delft University of Technology (www.bt.tudelft.nl/ebt). and his research interests are to use non-defined microbial ecosystems to establish biotechnological processes: microbial community engineering (MCE). This emerging field intends to establish biotechnological production processes by exploring the microbial diversity available in nature by imposing selective pressure on natural ecosystems. Current focus is on microbial fermentations, bioplastic production, and microbial conversions in acid mine drainage. Robbert has twenty years of experience in investigating (microbial) elemental cycles in natural and man-made environments with emphasis on modeling, bioreactor design and operation, and thermodynamic system analysis. Robbert is an active member of the B-Basic program on Industrial Biotechnology (www.b-basic.nl) headed by Prof. Luuk A. M. van der Wielen that aims for development of new bio-based production concepts for the chemical (and energy) industry.
	Low Energy Zero Gas Emission Metals Directly from Ore using Geosequestration – A Minerals Processing Vision for the Future Prof Noel A Warner Emeritus Professor of Minerals Engineering Academic Qualifications: University of New South Wales, School of Chemical Engineering BSc (Hon I), PhD, DSc University of Exeter, UK, Honorary Doctorate of Engineering Institutional Affiliations: Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) Honorary Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (HonFIMMM) Fellow, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (FAusIMM) Senior Member, TMS Previous Job Titles: Associate Professor, School of Metallurgy, University of New South Wales, Australia Manager New Processes Research, Imperial Smelting (RTZ), UK Manager Process Research, International Nickel Limited (INCO UK) Manager Process Development, International Nickel Ltd Professor of Minerals Engineering and Head of Department, University of Birmingham, UK Head of School, Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK Professional Achievements: Past President Institution of Mining and Metallurgy Robert Hunt Award (AIME) New York, 1966 Hofmann Memorial Medal (Paris) 1974 Consolidated Goldfields Medal (London) 1984 Kroll Medal & Prize (London) 1993 Robert Horne Lecture and Award, Society for Chemical Industry (SCI), October 2004 Donald Groen Prize 2004, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

IMPC 2010 – Keynote Speakers

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IMPC 2010 – Technical Papers

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Technical Program

The technical sessions of IMPC 2010 will be hosted Monday 6th September through to Thursday 9th September 2010. The Plenary session will be held in the Great Room Q1 and Q2 with breakouts hosted on the Mezzanine Level, in Meeting Rooms 1 to 4. The timed technical program will be available via the congress website in due course.

Congress session titles will include:

• Transformational technologies
  
• Sustainability and energy utilisation
  
• Water recycling and frugal water use
  
• Waste management
  
• In situ processing
  
• Underground processing
  
• Plant design and new equipment
  
• Comminution and physical separation
  
• Flotation
  
• Aqueous processing
  
• Bioprocessing
  
• Agglomeration
  
• Extractive metallurgy
  
• Mineral characterisation and in situ analysis
  
• Health, safety and environment
  
• Modelling and process simulation
  
• Minerals industry education

Snapshot and Poster Presentations

IMPC 2010 will host an extensive variety of Poster Presentations on the Mezzanine Level of the Brisbane Convention Centre. Selected authors of Poster Presentations will be invited to give a five minute snapshot oral overview of their poster. Posters will be on display for the duration of the event and the proximity of the poster area to the meeting activities will provide many opportunities for congress participants to view the posters at their leisure. The majority of poster presentations will be published in the congress proceedings as full papers.

IMPC 2010 – Congress Proceedings

All congress delegates will receive a CD ROM Proceedings containing all the technical papers presented at the event, along with an abstract volume/program. Additional copies of the congress proceedings may be purchased with the registration form and will be available upon check-in at the event.