XXV INTERNATIONAL MINERAL

PROCESSING CONGRESS
BRISBANE 2010

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS FOR COUNCIL

MEMBERS

Saturday 4 September 2010

The Organizing Committee has kindly extended an invitation to all Council members
and their wives/partners to an informal dinner on the evening of 4 September 2010. The
venue for the dinner is dell’Ugo Restaurant, 182 Grey Street, which is a few minutes
walk from the Rydges Hotel at Southbank in Brisbane (see
www.dellugosouthbank.com.au). Ralph Holmes informs me that the Brisbane River
Festival ends on Saturday 4 September with a fireworks display between 7 and 7.30
pm, which can be watched from the restaurant and should not be missed. The order of
proceedings for the evening will be designed to enable Councillors to meet for pre-
dinner drinks, watch the fireworks display and then continue with dinner. Our sincere
thanks to the Organising Committee for their generous hosting of this dinner. I suggest
that you arrange to be at the restaurant by 7.00pm.

NB Please confirm with Ms Antonia Riley whether or not you will be attending the
dinner. The invitation is also extended to your wife/partner should she be
attending the Congress. Her email address is: Antonia.riley@csiro.au
Sunday 5 September 2010
A meeting of the International Mineral Processing Council will take place in the
Boulevard Room 2, Rydges South Bank Hotel, Cnr Grey and Glenelg Streets,
South Bank, Brisbane, commencing at 09h00 on Sunday 5 September 2010.

NB:Please confirm with me (cyril.oconnor@uct.ac.za) whether or not you will be

attending the Congress and hence the Council meetings

Tea/coffee will be available on arrival and during the meeting. Lunch will be served in
the Parklands Bar & Grill Restaurant. Please find attached a “Special Dietary
Requirements” form which you should send to Antonia Riley ( Antonia.riley@csiro.au)
should you have any special needs. I also attach a location map.

I am pleased to confirm that the persons nominated for the vacant positions on Council
have been invited to join the Council meeting as observers, i.e. they will not have a vote
but will certainly be invited to contribute to the discussions.

Wednesday 8 September 2010

The International Advisory Committee will meet in the Great Halls 1 & 2 on Wednesday
8 September from 09h20-10h45. The Agenda for this meeting is attached and will be
inserted into the Registration pack. All delegates are welcome to attend.

Thursday 9 September 2010

A breakfast Meeting of the Council has been tentatively planned for Thursday 9
September to conclude any outstanding business before the Congress ends.
A meeting of the International Mineral Processing Council
will take place in the Boulevard Room 2, Rydges South Bank
Hotel, Cnr Grey and Glenelg Streets, South Bank, Brisbane
commencing at 09h00 on Sunday 5 September 2010.

AGENDA

1. Welcome and Apologies

2. Confirmation of the Agenda

3. Confirmation of the minutes of the meeting held in Brisbane on 7/8 October

2009.

4. Matters arising

5. Bids to host the XXVII IMPC in 2015.

5.1 Canada followed by Chile have been invited to present their final bids to
host the above Congress. Each bid Committee has been assigned
approximately 20-25 minutes to make their presentation and this will be
followed by 10-15 minutes question time. Detailed documentation will be sent
by the bidding Committee to the Secretariat by 27 August 2010 and will then
be forwarded to you as soon as possible.

Council will vote by secret ballot to decide which country will host the XXVII
IMPC in 2015.

5.2 Invitation for bids to host the XXVIII IMPC in 2018

The Constitution proposes that Congresses rotate continentally and states as
follows.
 For selection purposes, the world is divided into the following Regions:

(1) the Americas

(2) Africa, the Middle East and India

(3) Asia including China, Japan and Australasia

(4) Europe and the former USSR

The recent award history of Congresses is as follows:

2015 ?? – The Americas

2012 New Delhi – Africa, Middle East, India

2010 Brisbane - Asia

2008 Beijing – Asia

2006 Istanbul – Europe

2003 Cape Town – Africa

2000 Rome - Europe

Given the significant time and effort that each of the current bid countries has
invested in making their bids, Council may wish to discuss the status of the
losing bid in the context of the above protocol.

Invitations for bids to host the XXVIII IMPC will be extended at the meeting of
the International Advisory Committee.

6. Confirmation of proposed changes to the Constitution

6.1 Following deliberations at the Brisbane meeting of Council in 2009 and

other electronic correspondence since then various changes have been
proposed to the Constitution. The proposed changes are shown in red
on the copy of the Constitution attached. The Chair will speak to this
item.

6.2 In implementing these proposed changes it is further proposed that the

current four elected members all serve until the XXVI IMPC in New Delhi.

7. Election of office bearers.

Subject to the above amendments being approved, Council is required at this
meeting to elect the Chair of Council and also new Council members from a
slate of nominees.

In the light of the Constitutional requirements the new Council which will take
office during this Congress will be as follows:

Presidents of last 6 Congresses

 Robin Batterham (Brisbane 2010)
 Wang Dianzuo (Beijing 2008)
 Guven Onal (Istanbul 2006)
 Cyril O'Connor (Cape Town 2003)
 Giuseppe Bonifazi (Rome 2000)(vice Paolo Massacci)
 Hermann Wotruba (Aachen 1997) (vice Heinz Hoberg)
 Ponisseril Somasundaran (San Francisco 1995) (vice John
Herbst)

Vice-Chair: President of the next Congress

Pradip (New Delhi, 2012)

Vice-Chair Designate: President of the next but one Congress

??? (???, 2015)

Immediate Past Chair of Council

Eric Forssberg

Chairs of the IMPC Commissions

Robin Batterham : IMPC Commission on Mineral Processing
Roberto Villas-Boas : IMPC Commission on Sustainability
Jan Cilliers : IMPC Commission on Education

Elected members of Council

Sergio Castro (until New Delhi)
Rod Elvis (until New Delhi)
Sun Chuanyao (until New Delhi)
Kari Heiskanen (until New Delhi)

PLUS:

New members to be elected on 5 September 2010 to hold office until the

XXVII IMPC in 2015.

7.1 Election of new Council

7.1.1 Chair of Council: The Constitution states as follows:

 The Chair is elected by a simple majority of votes of the Council. The
position of Chair is for two Congresses and the Chair can be re-nominated for
a further period of one or two Congresses. The Vice-Chair acts as Chair in
the Chair’s absence.

The present Chair has completed one term of two Congresses.

Council is invited to consider the appointment of a Chair for a
further term. The current incumbent has indicated that he is available to
stand.

Eric Forssberg, supported by Jan Cilliers and Hermann Wotruba, has

proposed that the current Chair be elected for a second term i.e. until
the XXVII IMPC in 2015. He will speak to this item and the Chair will
recuse himself.

7.1.2 Chairs of Council Commissions

The Chairs of Council Commissions are appointed by Council and

are ex officio members of the Council.

 Robin Batterham has indicated that he is of the view that it would

be in the Council’s interest were he to hand over the Chair of his
Commission even though he is firmly committed to continue to
be actively engaged in the business of this Commission. The
Chair, supported by Robin Batterham, will propose Rod Elvish to
assume the position as Chair of this Commission.

7.1.3 Election of new Council members

The following persons (in alphabetical order) have been duly nominated
for election to Council:

Nominee Proposer Seconder 1 Seconder 2

John Herbst Fuerstenau Forssberg Batterham/Heiskane
n
Brij Moudgil Nagarag Somasundaran Habashi/Cilliers
Vladko Batterham Forssberg Villasboas
Panayotov
Vladimir Chanturiya Sztaba Panayotov
Vigdergauz

The nomination documents and the CVs of the candidates are given in
the attachments.

Council members who have either proposed or seconded a candidate

will be invited to speak to the merits of the candidate.

8. XXV IMPC
 The Organising Committee for the XXV IMPC will be invited to report on
matters relating to the organisation of the Congress. Dr Ralph Holmes
will be invited to join the meeting for this item.

9. XXVI IMPC

9.1 Pradip will be invited to report on progress regarding the

organisation of the XXVI IMPC to take place from 24-28
September 2012 at The Ashok, New Delhi, India.

9.2 Arrangements for the hosting of the 2011 meeting of Council in

India will be proposed.

10. International Advisory Committee

10.1 The role of this Committee is set out in the Constitution as

follows:

In making its policy decisions, the Council will be advised by the International
Advisory Committee. Council will decide how Congress delegates may be
invited to advise both Council and the International Advisory Committees on
a range of matters.

. Duties & Responsibilities:

This Committee advises Council on all scientific and Member matters and
supports and advises Congress organizers particularly in publicizing and
eliciting abstracts for forthcoming IMPC. This Committee also assists
Congress organizers with suggestions for topic areas for papers, referees
etc. The Committee may retire Members (and their Alternates) who have
been deemed to not have been active for a significant period of time.

As already referred to under item 6.1 (Proposed changes to the Constitution)

it is proposed to elaborate on the constitutional role of the International
Advisory Committee (cf. Duties and Responsibilities of the International
Advisory Committee). Professor Robin Batterham who has submitted these
proposals for consideration will be invited to speak to this item.

10.2 Agenda for meeting of the International Advisory Committee on 8

September 2010

A copy of the Agenda is in the attachments. The format of this meeting

will be discussed.

11. Proposal for new arrangement for Publication Procedures for IMPC
Papers
The minutes of the 2009 Brisbane meeting of Council stated:

“It was agreed that henceforth no hardcopies of the Proceedings would be provided
to delegates. However it was strongly recommended that the XXV IMPC Committee
and Pradip, President of the XXVI IMPC Committee, work together to identify a
publishing house which would host the electronic version of the Proceedings (cf.
Item 3 above). The possibility of the Council entering into a long term relationship
with such a publishing house was also suggested. Jan Cilliers indicated that he was
aware of such a company in London and would pass on the details to Ralph
Holmes. It was also noted that such a company could provide hard copies to
interested persons at some agreed price. These should have a consistent format
from Congress to Congress.”

John Ralston who chaired the technical Committee for the XXV IMPC has submitted
the following proposal:

Dear Cyril, Robin and Ralph,

For the XXV IMPC 2010 we made a decision to undertake paper reviews by
adopting the principles that are the same as Chemeca's paper review process ,
asking authors who had submitted papers to the IMPC meeting to be reviewers.
Whilst this has worked for 2010 it was less than perfect and has prompted us to
consider other measures. It is therefore recommended that IMPC Council takes
responsibility for starting very early negotiations with high quality journals that could
bring out special issues at the time that the conference is to be held. The
International Journal of Mineral Processing (IJMP) and Minerals Engineering are
A*star journals in the required disciplinary areas, validated by the Australian
Research Council [www.arc.gov.au], equivalent international agencies such as the
NSF, the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of
Technological Sciences and Engineering. If publication takes place in 'special
issues' of these journals , then their database of reviewers will be used to review
appropriate IMPC papers. Of course the IMPC would maintain its screening
process, through the Technical Committee, to ensure quality control. A proportion of
papers which do not meet A* international journal standards could still be brought
out as IMPC conference proceedings on a disk, hard copy upon request. For all
academics, the quality of a journal is these days paramount, especially with
initiatives such as Excellence Research Australia [ERA rated journal spreadsheet
attached, as well as conference list] the UK RAE exercise and related activities in
North America in train. The old days of 'any old journal ' are well and truly gone.
Conference proceedings still have some currency .You will see from the attached
spreadsheet that the IMPC holds its head up here, but conference publications carry
far less "weight" or impact than do journal publications. We recommend that the
IMPC Council maintains the Technical Committee for future IMPC meetings, but
engages with the International Journal of Minerals Processing and Minerals
Engineering in early 2011 to consider special issue publication of high standard
papers for the next IMPC, with the special issues timed to coincide with the
conference [and hard and e- copies available at registration]. Careful coordination
will be required but the benefits are great, raising the profile of the IMPC in the
process. A dual publication process would be thus be used with [a] special issues of
high quality journals and [b] IMPC Conference proceedings- for the latter the
Chemeca process used for the 2010 meeting should be continued. The entire 2010
IMPC Organising Committee fully support this concept.

I would strongly recommend that this email be sent to the whole IMPC International
Advisory Committee.
 Regards
John

Council will be invited to discuss these proposals.

12. IMPC Commissions

The Chairs of the three Commissions will be invited to report on

developments since Beijing and on their vision of the future role of their
Commissions. Council will be invited to discuss these matters and also
ways in which their activities could be woven into the structure of a
Congress.

Robin Batterham : IMPC Commission on Mineral Processing

Roberto Villas-Boas : IMPC Commission on Sustainability
Jan Cilliers : IMPC Commission on Education

13. Awards

13.1 Lifetime Achievement Award

Eric Forssberg, Chair of this Committee, will be invited to report on this

item. As agreed at the last meeting of Council the recipient will present
the Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture on the day after the Congress
banquet at which time the name of the recipient will be announced.

13.2 IMPC Council Award

The Constitution allows the Council to make this Award from time to
time. It specifically states :

"The IMPC Council may from time to time make an award known as the
"IMPC Council Award" to persons who have over a sustained period made
outstanding and noteworthy contributions to the activities of the Council.
Recipients of such an award may be nominated by any member of Council.
These should be submitted in writing at least one month before any formal
meeting of Council and be accompanied by an appropriate citation and CV. A
2/3 majority of Council is required to carry the proposal. Council members
unable to attend a meeting may cast a postal vote. This award is not to be
confused with the IMPC Medal which is awarded mainly on the basis of
outstanding contributions to the advancement of the art, science or industrial
practice of mineral processing and for which the nomination procedure is
substantially different. No current member of Council is eligible for
nomination.”
 The Award in 2008 was made to Dr Nat Arbiter.

Eric Forssberg will propose that Professor Jacques Astier be the 2010
recipient of the Council Award. This proposal has been supported by
Cyril O’Connor and Roberto Villas Boas. The citation reads as follows:

Nomination of Jacques Astier for the IMPC Council Award 2010.

I nominate the former President of the IMPC Council, Jacques Astier as the
second recipient of the IMPC Council Award in 2010. The nomination is
supported by Messrs. Cyril O´Connor and Roberto Villas-Boas.

Jacques Astier has graduated from L´Ecole Central in Paris, one of the most
famous of the Grandes Ecoles in France. He has been a director at L
´Institut de Recherche de la Siderurgie Francaise, IRSID. Since 1988 he has
been an independent consultant to corporations and institutions in metallurgy,
iron ore and techno-economic matters.

He has served as president of Le Société de L´Industrie Minérale, SIM.. He

has also been Professor at L´Ecole Nationale Superieur des Mines de Paris,
another of the famous Grandes Ecoles of France.

He has been the President of the IMPC Council, in today’s terminology since
the VII IMPC in Leningrad in 1968 until the XV IMPC in Cannes in 1985. I
have participated in the meetings of the IMPC Council from 1974. During
those years he managed to guide the IMPC with great skill and diplomatic
ability.

He has published papers and reports on iron- and steelmaking, and iron ore
markets. He participated in the XXIV IMPC in Beijing in 2008.

Signed on the 5th of August 2010 in Brisbane, QLD by

Eric Forssberg
Immediate past President of the IMPC Council

13.3 Young Author Awards

The Organizing Committee will update the Council on the recipients of

these Awards and on the procedures that were followed in reaching a
decision on the winners of the Awards.

14 Portfolios of Council Members

The Chair will again propose that all members of Council take on a
portfolio of responsibility. Specifically he will propose Professor Eric
Forrsberg to continue as Convenor of the Lifetime Achievement Award
Committee.

Other members of Council (apart from the Vice-Chair and Vice-Chair

Designate) will be asked to volunteer as members of one of the
Commissions.
15. International Advisory Committee

The Chair will provide an update of membership of this Committee.

16. Scrolls for Award winners

The Chair will update the Council on the Scrolls that have been sent to
previous recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award and Young
Author Awards since the Beijing Congress.

17. Any other business

18. Next meeting of Council