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Rod Elvish

Rod Elvish is a Consultant Metallurgist and Principal of B E Enterprises. 

He has a Fellowship Diploma in Primary Metallurgy and a Post Graduate Diploma in Mineral Economics. 

He is based in Sydney, Australia and consults extensively in Australia and globally.


Rod’s career has included operations in Tasmania, the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland and several years with Dorr Oliver selling mineral processing equipment. 

As a Director (later Chairman) of Allstate Explorations NL he was instrumental in the reopening of the Beaconsfield Gold Mine in Tasmania.  He formed his own company in 1987.


Rod was National President of The AusIMM in 2001.  He was elected a Councillor of the International Mineral Processing Council (IMPC) and is currently Chair of the IMPC Mineral Processing Commission. 

He is an Honorary Fellow and Chartered Professional of The AusIMM, a Fellow of the IOM3 and SAIMM and a Member of CIM and SME.


His vision is that IMPC will be a significant player in technology exchange between all stakeholders in the minerals industry, promoting understanding and common interests to connect the differing focus of academia, environment and community groups, and industry and promoting their working together internationally for the benefit of mineral processing.  He sees the IMPC’s International Advisory Committee as having a major role in achieving this vision.

Contact: rod.elvish@pip.com.au 

Roberto Villas Boas Cerrini

Roberto Villas Boas graduated in Mining Engineering from the Polytechnic School of USP (1968), Master of Science in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines (1971), United States, and Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Engineering and Materials Science from COPPE, UFRJ (1977). It researcher of the Center for Mineral Technology – CETEM.

He was Assistant Professor IV, gazetted, retired in 1998, the then School of Engineering, Polytechnic School today at UFRJ and COPPE Program Assistant Professor of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials, 1971-1998.

Visiting Professor at several universities.

Universities such as São Paulo, Brazil; Universita degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome, Italy; Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina, Universidad de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia; Institute of Earth moving y Metallurgy, Moa, Cuba; Henry Krumb School of Mines, Columbia University, New York, USA; Washington & Lee University, Lexington, USA, “Director of Mastery” of UNIARA, Universidad Internacional de Andalucia, La Rabida, Spain, and others.

Superintendent and Director of CETEM, between 1978-1998, with a break from 1987 to 1990, having served in this period, the positions of Vice President Paulo Abib Engenharia Mineral in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1987 to early de1989), and Secretary for New Materials of the Ministry of Science and Technology, management Renato Archer (1989-1990).

It was the International Coordinator Subprogram Mineral Technology, CYTED / XIII, between 1998 to 2005 and Chairman of IMAAC / UNIDO.

Was Vice President of OLAMI, the Latin American Mining, 2002-2008.

Since 2009, International Area Manager is “Promoción al Desarrollo Industrial” Program CYTED. Conducted post-doctoral, by the Academy of Natural Sciences of China in Beijing in 1991.

Council was at USP, Vice-President of the Central Directory of Students – DCE / USP, 1966/67; Advisor FINEP, CNPq as representanre, 91/92, i was President of ABIPTI – Brazilian Association of Industrial Research Institutions .

He was Director of the Pan American Union of Engineers – UPADI-.

He has extensive experience in consulting, research, counseling and teaching in the area of Mining Engineering, Mineral and Materials, with an emphasis on the Mining-Metallurgical Processes and Sustainable been working on the issues of mining, the environment, sustainable development indicators sustainability, materials technology and planning of experiments statistician.

Participated as a consultant and participates in several projects of UNEP, Paris, related to Mercury in biota and TransApell, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, on environmental recovery of areas degraded by mining uranium, and UDEPO ThDEPO, UNIDO, Vienna on mercury in gold mining areas and clean technologies, GEF / UNDP / UNIDO, has been Coordinator in Brazil’s Global Mercury Project. He is the author and editor of 27 books about books, all available on the Web, and hundreds of scientific articles, guiding several MSc and PhD theses.

He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Mineral and military engineer, and is Chairman of the Sustainability Committee of the International Mineral Processing Council (IMPC) as well as Director of the same Consellho.

Diana Drinkwater

Diana has over 25 years experience in the minerals industry. She spent her early career working in Australian mineral processing plant operations, site-based research and metallurgical process design, before moving to the education sector.

Diana has now spent 15 years working in metallurgical education and professional development, and has designed and delivered undergraduate and postgraduate education at The University of Queensland, University of New South Wales and the Lassonde Mineral Engineering program at the University of Toronto.

She was a part of the team that developed the innovative Mineral Education Partnership (MEP) between the three preeminent Mineral Processing Schools in Australia, and has also been involved in delivering the AngloPlatinum Graduate Development Program (AGDP) run by the University of Cape Town.

Diana currently works for JKTech Pty Ltd, the commercialisation arm of The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute, as the program director for accelerated professional development.  She is currently chair of the  AusIMM Metallurgical Society, and is the first female member of the member of the International Mineral Processing Council (IMPC).  Diana also chairs the IMPC Education Commission.