A highlight in the MtM calendar is the Annual Research Day, organised and hosted by the post-graduate students themselves. This research day is intended to showcase the work done by the MtM post-graduates, and to celebrate the group's successes over the year. Invited speakers complement the student's presentations, and invited guests include academics from other research groupings as well as representatives from industry.
2019 Annual Minerals to Metals Research Day Programme
Theme: From Mines of the Past to Minerals for the Future
| Time | |
| 8:00-8:30 | Arrival, tea, coffee |
| 8:30-8:35 | Welcome, safety, announcements |
| 8:35-8:40 | Commemoration |
| 8:40-8:45 | Program for the day; Introduction of the Guest Speaker |
| 8:45-9:20 | Guest Speaker: Ms Farana Boodhram |
| 9:20-9:30 | Questions/discussion |
| 9:30-10:10 | Session 1: Mineral Value Chains |
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| 10:10-10:35 | Session 2: Education programmes and Cross-disciplinary Research |
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| 10:35-11:00 | Tea/coffee break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 3: Licence to Operate |
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| 12:30-12:35 | Session 4: Strategic Minerals |
| a) Rare earths – Jochen Petersen, Sfiso Mkhize | |
| 12:50-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:40 | Session 5a: Value from Waste |
| Repurposing mine waste and land – Helene-Marie Stander, Xihluke Mabasa, Tapiwa Chimbganda, Rumbizaishe Chipakwe, Elaine Govender- Opitz, Mike Solomon, Juarez Amaral Filho | |
| 14:40-15:00 | Session 5b. Urban Mining |
| Urban mining – Dr Thandazile Moyo, Patrick Prestele | |
| 15:00-15:20 | Session 6: Decision Support and Innovation |
| Sustainable performance assessment tools – David Viljoen, Prince Ugo, de Waal Hugo | |
| 15:20-15:30 | Closing Remarks |
| 15:30-15:45 | Mid-afternoon tea, coffee |
| 15:45-16:00 | Play Guess the Metal |
| 16:00-17:00 | Forum discussion: The way forward |
7th Annual Minerals to Metals Research Day 2014 Programme
| Start Time | Title | Presenter |
| 09:00 | Welcome: The Minerals to Metals Initiative – 8 years on | J-P Franzidis |
| 09:30 | Technical feasibility of South African coal water mixtures (CWMs) | P Gyebi |
| 09:50 | The development of a simplified system for measuring the passage of particles on and through moving screen surfaces using DEM and PEPT | O Ogunmodimu |
| 10:10 | Optimization of the radio-labelling of ion exchange resin tracers for positron emission particle tracking | M van Heerden |
| 10:30 | TEA and COFFEE | |
| 11:00 | A feasibility study of the mineral carbonation of PGM tailings | M Ncongwane |
| 11:20 | Sustainability performance analysis and decision-making for minerals beneficiation: a South African iron and steel case study | T Chitaka |
| 11:40 | An economic impact analysis of mineral beneficiation in the KZN province | N Hearn |
| 12:00 | Mitigating ARD potential of coal ultrafines using froth flotation and gravity separation | J Iroala |
| 12:20 | An environmental assessment on the use of froth flotation for coal recovery and sulphur removal from fine coal waste | B Fundikwa |
| 12:40 | Youth entrepreneurship in the context of minerals development | A Manqoyi |
| 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 14:00 | Perspectives on geometallurgy and process mineralogy | M Becker |
| 14:30 | Assessing environmental risks associated with sulphidic mine waste: a gold case study | A Opitz |
| 14:50 | Evaluation of the HydroZincTM process to refine zinc sulphide ore at Gamsberg | Z Dlamini |
| 15:10 | Hydrometallurgy 2014 – Trends and Highlights | J Petersen |
| 15:40 | Minerals to Metals – the way forward | J Broadhurst |
8th Annual Minerals to Metals Research Day 2015 Programme
| Time | Presenter | Title | |
| 08h00 | Tea and Coffee | ||
| 08h30 | Committee | Welcome & housekeeping | |
| 08h40 | Francis Petersen | Opening remarks | |
| 08h50 | Jenny Broadhurst | A Minerals to Metals perspective and overview | |
| 09h00 | Dee Bradshaw | Embracing the transition | |
| 09h30 | Takunda Chitaka | Sustainability performance analysis and decision-making for minerals beneficiation: a South African iron and steel industry | |
| 09h45 | Luke Farrell | A political economy account of South African beneficiation | |
| 09h55 | Shuhei Kato | Clusters development and technological transfer in the South African mining industry | |
| 10h10 | Ayanda Manqoyi | Between necessity and opportunity: youth entrepreneurs in eSikhawini Township, Richards Bay | |
| 10h20 | Ilyaas Abdullah and Yuan-Shiun Wu | Creating an enduring licence to operate for the South African mining industry | |
| 10h30 | Tea and Coffee | ||
| 11h00 | Rahul Ram | Advanced study on the electrochemistry of chalcopyrite | |
| 11h20 | Thandazile Moyo | An electrochemical study of the dissolution of chalcopyrite in ammonia-ammonium sulphate solutions | |
| 11h35 | Vukile Ntokazhe and Muhammad Amirudin | Study of potential hydrometallurgical process routes for the economic recovery of value metals from waste electronic circuit boards | |
| 11h45 | Olumide Ogunmodimu | The development of a granular flow model for the passage of particles on and through moving screen surfaces | |
| 12h00 | Prince Owusu Gyebi | The effect of chemical additives on the rheological and electrokinetic properties on Witbank coal-water mixtures | |
| 12h15 | Kyle Naidoo and Mohamed Jogiat | Evaluating the potential for dry processing | |
| 12h25 | Juarez Amaral | Towards coal zero waste in Brazil | |
| 12h45 | Helene-Marie Stander | Evaluation of down-stream processing options for sulphide-rich coal waste tailings | |
| 13h00 | Lunch | ||
| 14h00 | Dee Bradshaw | Strategy discussion | |
| 14h30 | Bridget Fundikwa | An environmental assessment on the use of froth flotation for coal recovery and sulfur removal from fine coal waste | |
| 14h45 | Mpendulo Ncongwane | An engineering evaluation of the mineral carbonation of PGM tailings | |
| 15h00 | Edson Charikinya | Modelling across the minerals value chain | |
| 15h20 | Tea and Coffee | ||
| 15h40 | Jenny Robertson and Alexander Platts | Including sustainability indicators into an integrated modelling framework: proof of concept for an iron ore magnetic separation unit | |
| 15h50 | Lauren McGeorge and Clare Rodseth | Analysis of energy efficiency in South Africa’s gold industry | |
| 16h00 | Corey Beavon and Jaishal Naidu | Industrial minerals in South Africa | |
| 16h10 | Alex Opitz | The use of mineralogy and geochemistry in the characterisation of ARD potentials from a gold waste rock | |
| 16h20 | Jochen Petersen | Closing remarks | |
| 16h30 | Prize giving and closing | ||