Sustainable Minerals '22

MEI's 7th Sustainable Minerals conference is organised in consultation with Prof Markus Reuter.

This conference will discuss all aspects of material and metal usage by considering for example (but not exclusively):

* Acid Mine Drainage

* Clean Technology (smelting, energy recovery, hydrometallurgical, etc.)

Coal Wastes

* Effluent Treatment (biological and chemical methods for water purification)

* Energy Recovery

* Water use and recycling

* Environmental Impact Assessment Methodologies (LCA, metrics for sustainability, LCI, etc.)

* Industrial Applications (novel technology, new methods, breakthrough technology, etc.)

* Legislation (REACH, Basel, Stockholm, etc.)

* Process Control (to monitor and optimize environmental performance of plants, unit operations, furnaces)

* Processing of Industrial Wastes (slags, chemical, flue dusts, sludges, bottom ashes, etc.)

* Recycling of Post Consumer Materials (car recycling, waste electric and electronic equipment, plastics, paper)

* Tailings Disposal at mine sites

* Recycling Systems (monitoring, take-back systems, etc.)

* Recycling Technology (separation, automatic sorting, sensors, smelting, etc.)

* Sustainability (from an industrial as well as consumer point of view)

* System and other models for system optimization and Sustainability prediction

* Carbon emission controls; case studies of existing methods to reduce emissions and new technology being developed such as carbon capture and storage

* Efforts to reduce energy consumption in mining and mineral processing operations

* Developments in geopolymers as alternatives to conventional cements.

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