Davis - Extraction 2018 : proceedings of the first Global Conference on Extractive Metallurgy

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While Extraction 2018 may seem like another new conference, it was actually born out of a membership initiative within three societies to reduce the number of extractive meetings in 2018. Set for August 2629, 2018, in Ottawa, Canada, Extraction 2018 is the industrys first collaborative global metallurgy conference focused exclusively on extractive topics. As such, we hope it will allow attendees to take stock of the current situation in extractive metallurgy, where issues around geography, resources, environment, and human capital are all in play and making for an ever-changing landscape.

The conference has come to fruition out of the hard work from the staff of the three sponsoring societies. The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) has mobilized its team to manage the trade show and sponsorship, while The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) has been instrumental in supplying the backbone of the conference for abstract management, author interaction, and marketing. The Metallurgy & Materials Society (MetSoc) of Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum (CIM) organized the logistics for this conference while at the same time holding its first-ever annual meeting outside of Canada at Materials Science & Technology 2018 (MS&T18) in Columbus, Ohio. This opportunity has really allowed the extractive programming to come to Ottawa. The regular contact between societies has been beneficial for everyone and will have lasting positive impacts far after Extraction 2018 is over.

A large number of volunteers from each society were also critical to the organization of the symposia. Each one of them has volunteered considerable personal time to help develop, review, and organize the conference. This includes short courses, tours, and posters, as well as the technical symposia. Extraction 2018 is the home for several important recurring symposia that examine new developments in foundational extractive metallurgy topics and techniques. It also offers new programming designed to share the latest research and insights on emerging technologies and issues that are shaping the global extractive metallurgy industry. The symposia include: 7th International Symposium on Advances in Sulfide Smelting; Peter Hayes Symposium on Pyrometallurgical Processing; Hydrometallurgy 2018; Gordon Ritcey Symposium: Advances in Hydrometallurgical Solution Purification Separations; Processing of Critical Metals; and finally, Sulfide Flotation.