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Southern African Pyrometallurgy 2006 International Conference
Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, 5-8 March 2006
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The conference has sessions covering most of the major areas of
pyrometallurgy that are practised in Southern Africa. Some international
presentations are also included. The following commodities are covered:
- Calcium carbide
- Copper
- Ferrochromium
- Iron and Steel
- Magnesium
- Nickel
- Platinum Group Metals
- Titania Slag
- Zinc
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Abstracts, Papers, and pictures of Speakers are available online.
Sunday 5 March 2006
12:00 noon Traditional Zulu lunch (optional extra)
Late afternoon Game drive (optional extra)
5:00pm - 6:30pm Early Registration
5:00pm Welcoming drinks at Glenburn Lodge
Monday 6 March 2006
7:00am - 8:30am Registration
8:30am Welcome
Willem van Niekerk (President: SAIMM)
Session 1 - Platinum Group Metals (Chaired by Johan Theron)
8:45am Sulphuric Acid Manufacture (Keynote address)
Bill Davenport (University of Arizona, USA), Matthew King (Hatch, Australia), B. Rogers (Hatch, Canada), & A. Weissenberger (Hatch, South Africa)
9:15am Process Description and Abbreviated History of Anglo Platinum's Waterval Smelter
Marinda Jacobs (Anglo Platinum, South Africa)
9:40am Mortimer Smelter: Operations Description
Chris Sima & Martha Legoabe (Anglo Platinum, South Africa)
10:05am Process Description and Short History of Polokwane Smelter
Rodney Hundermark, Bertus de Villiers, and July Ndlovu (Anglo Platinum, South Africa)
10:30am Tea
Session 2 - Platinum Group Metals (Chaired by Keith Hines)
11:00am Common-Sense Improvements to Electric Smelting at Impala Platinum
Val Coetzee & Charl Coetzee (Impala Platinum, South Africa)
11:25am An overview of PGM Smelting in Zimbabwe - Zimplats Operations
Louis Mabiza (Zimplats, Zimbabwe)
11:50am Spinel Removal from PGM Smelting Furnaces
Arthur Barnes & Alan Newall (BCM Process Applications, South Africa)
12:15pm New Opportunities - Exhaustive Monitored Copper Coolers for Submerged Arc Furnaces
Manfred Hopf (Saveway, Germany) & Eugene Rossouw (Thos Begbie, South Africa)
12:40pm Lunch
Session 3 - Education and Research (Chaired by Andrie Garbers-Craig)
1:40pm A Glimpse of Pyrometallurgy at Wits University - Cancelled
Hurman Eric (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
1:40pm Research in Pyrometallurgy at the University of Pretoria, 1980-2005
Chris Pistorius (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
2:05pm A Review of Undergraduate Teaching and Postgraduate Research in Pyrometallurgy at the University of Stellenbosch
Jacques Eksteen (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
2:30pm Pyrometallurgy at Mintek
Rodney Jones & Tom Curr (Mintek, South Africa)
2:55pm Tea
Session 4 - Engineering Companies (Chaired by Quinn Reynolds)
3:25pm Hatch Developments in Furnace Design in Conjunction with Smelting Plants in Africa
Lloyd Nelson & Kobus Geldenhuis (Hatch Africa, South Africa)
B. Emery, M. de Vries, K. Joiner, Tom Ma, Jimmy Sarvinis, Frank Stober, R. Sullivan,
Nils Voermann, C. Walker, & Bert Wasmund (Hatch, Canada)
3:50pm Pneumatic Injection of Solids into Pyrometallurgical Processes: Past, Present, and Future
Jeremy Kirsch (Clyde Bergemann Africa, South Africa)
4:25pm for 4:30pm Bus leaves for Cave visits
Group A: 5:00pm Sterkfontein Caves, 6:30pm Wonder Cave
Group B: 5:00pm Wonder Cave, 6:30pm Sterkfontein Caves
8:00pm Dinner - Braaivleis
Tuesday 7 March 2006
5:30am Hot Air Balloon Safari at sunrise - First group
Session 5 - Ilmenite Smelting (Chaired by Chris Pistorius)
9:00am Heavy Mineral Processing at Richards Bay Minerals
Gavin Williams & J.D. Steenkamp (Richards Bay Minerals, South Africa)
9:25am An overview of the Namakwa Sands Ilmenite Smelting Operations
Errol Matthews & Mia Gous (Namakwa Sands, South Africa)
9:50am Ilmenite smelting at Ticor SA
Hanlie Kotze & Jandri Beukes (Ticor, South Africa)
& Deon Bessinger (Kumba Resources R&D, South Africa)
10:15am Tea
Session 6 - Base metals (Chaired by Lloyd Nelson)
11:00am Recent Improvements at the BCL Smelter
Matome Malema, & Andy Legg (BCL, Botswana)
11:25am Bindura Nickel Corporation Smelter Operations
Evaristo Dzingayi (Bindura Nickel Corporation, Zimbabwe)
11:50am Transformation of the Palabora Copper Smelter from a Captive Smelter to a Toll/Custom Smelter
Dennis Brazier, Willie Laing, & Dave Nixon (Palabora Mining Company, South Africa)
12:15am Phasing out Reverberatory Furnace Operations at KCM Nkana
Chris Cutler, Jacques Eksteen (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
& Mohan Natarajan & Enock Mponda (KCM Nkana, Zambia)
12:40am The Beneficial Effects of Feeding Dry Copper Concentrate to Smelting Furnaces and Development of the Dryers
Shaolong Chen & Hannu Mansikkaviita (Kumera Corporation Technology Center, Finland)
1:05pm Lunch
Session 7a - Zinc (Chaired by Tom Curr)
2:05pm An Overview of the Zincor process
Jaco van Dyk (Zincor, South Africa)
Session 7b - Calcium Carbide
2:30pm SA Calcium Carbide
Juan Sabio & Tony Stalberg (SA Calcium Carbide, South Africa)
Session 7c - Steel
2:55pm Added Value Long Steel Products produced at MSSA Newcastle Works
Victor Scholtz, DS Magudulela, Francois van Zyl, A Coetzee, A Humpel, Colin Hill,
Awie Potgieter, Warren Seegers & Sipho Magudulela (Mittal Steel - Newcastle, South Africa)
3:20pm Practices and Design for Extending the Hearth life in the Mittal Steel Company Blast Furnaces
Karl Spaleck, Martiens Schoeman, & Warren Seegers (Mittal Steel - Newcastle, South Africa)
& James Bobek, Wendell Carter, & Pinakin Chaubal (Mittal Steel Ispat Inland, USA)
3:45pm Tea
Session 8 - Engineering Companies (Chaired by Isabel Reinecke)
4:15pm Innovative and Safe Copper Launder Design
Bernice Leong & Hugo Joubert (Pyromet Technologies, South Africa)
4:40pm Passion for Metals
Till Schreiter, Jens Kempken, Rolf Degel, & Hartmut Schmieden (SMS Demag, South Africa & Germany)
5:30pm Bus leaves for Maropeng
6pm - 10pm Conference Dinner - Maropeng
Wednesday 8 March 2006
5:30am Hot Air Balloon Safari at sunrise - Second group
Session 9 - Ferro-alloys (Chaired by Dr Nyembe Shoko)
9:00am An Overview of the History and Current Operational Facilities of Samancor Chrome
Marius Visser (Samancor Chrome - Ferrometals, South Africa)
9:25am Xstrata Alloys in Profile
Oomeshni Naiker & Tony Riley (Xstrata Alloys, South Africa)
9:50am Zimbabwe Alloys: The First Fifty Years of Operation, Challenges, and Opportunities
Jabulani Chirasha, Dr Nyembe Shoko, & Munetsi Machikicho
(Zimbabwe Alloys International, Zimbabwe)
10:15am Laboratory Investigations of the Electrical Resistivity of Cokes and Smelting Charge for Optimizing Operation in Large Ferrochrome Furnaces
Helge Krogerus, Timo Lintumaa, & Petri Jokinen (Outokumpu Research Oy, Finland)
10:40am Tea
Session 10a - Magnesium (Chaired by Marek Dworzanowski)
11:10am Mintek Thermal Magnesium Process (MTMP): Theoretical and Operational Aspects
Masud Abdellatif (Mintek, South Africa)
11:35am Refining Testwork on Crude Magnesium Produced in the Mintek Thermal Magnesium Process
Masud Abdellatif (Mintek, South Africa)
Session 10b - World Smelters
12:00 Metallurgy From Above - A Google Earth Perspective
Quinn Reynolds (Mintek, South Africa)
Session 10c - Kyoto Protocol
12:25 Kyoto Carbon Credits
Harmke Immink (PriceWaterhouse Coopers, South Africa)
12:50pm Concluding remarks
Rodney Jones (Mintek, South Africa)
1:00pm Lunch
Plant Visit (optional)
1:50pm Bus departs to a choice of:
Anglo Platinum's Waterval Smelter
Mintek
Thursday 9 March 2006
Plant Visits (optional)
Bus transport leaves from and returns to Glenburn Lodge. All-day visit to:
Impala Platinum
Lonmin Platinum
List of Southern African Smelters and supporting organizations