Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Session Chairs -- Preface -- Introductory Remarks -- Plenary Session -- Plant Design: What Not to Do -- A Few General Rules for Plant Design -- Grinding Circuits: What to Look for in Design -- The Role of Innovation in Mineral Processing and Metallurgical Plant Design -- Research and Characterization -- A Case Study in the Flotation Characterization of an Ore Body and Its Use in Circuit Design -- High Resolution X-Ray Micro CT (HRXMT)-Advances in 3D Particle Characterization for Mineral Processing Operations -- Gas Dispersion Measurements: Uses and Opportunities -- Taking Mineral Processing Plant Simulation to a New Level-Inclusion of Mine Plans and Financial Performance -- Impacts of Quantitative Mineral Characterization on Processing -- Benefits of Dynamic Process Simulation for the Mineral Industry -- Engineering Commissioning, Start Up, and Case Studies -- Expansion of the Gibraltar Mill -- Wet Weather Design and Experience for Mineral Processing -- Engineering Challenges in Today's Dynamic Marketplace -- Gibraltar Mine Expansion-Design Consideration for a "Fast-Track" Brown-Field Project -- Sampling, Bench, and Pilot Plant Test Work -- The Combined Pressure Acid Leach (CPAL) Process, Batch and Piloting Testwork -- Sampling for On-Stream Analysis and Composite Samples -- The Deswik Pilot Study Regrind Mill-Benefits of an Onsite Small Scale Fine Grind Test Study -- Flotation -- Design and Operation of Mechanical Flotation Machines -- The Application of Froth Flotation for Gold Recovery at Newmont Mining Corporation -- Designing Modern Flotation Circuits Using JKFIT and JKSIMFLOAT -- Purposeful Instrumentation for Effective Flotation Control -- Benchmarking of Flotation Plants: A Key Element of Flotation Modelling -- Column and Non-Traditional Flotation.

Flotation of Fine Oil Droplets in Petroleum Production Circuits -- Extractive Metallurgy -- New Chloride Based Process for the Recovery of Bismuth from Polymetallic Concentrates-NICO Deposit, NWT, Canada -- Process Development Testing for Continuous Ion Exchange Applications -- Fundamental Procedures to Evaluate and Design Industrial Waste Water Metals Treatment Systems, Case Study Discussions -- Design and Operation of Ion Exchange Process Systems -- An Update: Selection, Equipment Sizing and Flowsheet Applications in Copper Solvent Extraction and Electrowinning -- Comminution (Crushing and Grinding) -- The Importance of Water Utilization for Maximizing Grinding Circuit Classification System Efficiency -- The Bond Standard for Comminution Efficiency -- In-Pit Crushing-The Move to Continuous Mining -- Impact on Grinding Mill Design of Recent New Discoveries -- Recent Trends in the Design of Comminution Circuits for High Tonnage Hard Rock Mining -- Factors Influencing the Selection and Sizing of Crushers -- Financial and Feasibility Studies -- Financing Your Mine -- Early-Stage Risk Minimization in Process Flowsheet Design -- Going Green in Mining Project Finance-What Does it Mean in Terms of the Engineering Study? -- Co ncentrated Solar Powered Mineral Processi ng -- Particle Separation -- Impact of Flash Flotation on Grinding and Main Flotation Circuits-Design by Simulation and Case Studies -- Rheology in Mineral Processing -- Online Slurry Particle Size Analyzers -- Fine Sizing with the Derrick® Stack Sizer™ Screen -- Maximum Classification Efficiency Through Double Classification Using the ReCyclone -- Paste Thickening of Tailings: Process and Equipment Design Fundamentals Relative to Deposition Goals -- Other Separation Processes -- Installation and Operation of the Eriez Cryogen-Free Superconducting Magnet at Sibelco UK.

New Developments in Sensor-Based Sorting -- Real Time Information Management Infrastructure-Collaboration at Mine-Mill for Asset Optimization -- Gravity Recovery of Gold from Within Grinding Circuits -- Development of the ORC Coos Bay Mineral Sands Deposit in Oregon, USA -- Process Development -- Innovative Surge Bin Design for Mineral Sands Processing Plant -- Process Design Studies for Northland Resources' Fennoscandinavian IOCG Properties -- FRAC Sand Plant Design: A Process Solutions Provider Perspective, from Testwork to Project Completion -- The Design and Benefits of Containerised Modular Plant Design -- Liners and Coatings for Mineral Processing Equipment -- Designing for a Reduced Carbon Footprint at Greenfield and Operating Comminution Plants -- Index.