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IMPC 2026, Cape Town, South Africa IMPC 2026 is expected to gather over 1,000 professionals and academics from the mining industry representing around 50 countries. Leading universities specializing in mineral processing, all major mining companies and global providers of services and technologies will attend the congress. The technical sessions will facilitate knowledge exchange and transfer […]

The Society of Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) welcomes delegates to the XXXI IMPC 2024 in Washington D.C. in the USA. For more information visit the IMPC 2024 website. With lengthy visa processing times in some locations, SME is working now to support those attendees and speakers in submitting appropriating documentation to attend IMPC.

Proceedings of the IMPC Asia Pacific Conference 2022 are available online. Visit the IMPC Asia Pacific Conference 2022 website for further information and to place your order.

Proceedings of the XXX IMPC Congress, ‘Resilient futures for mineral processing’, are now available online. Visit the IMPC 2020 Conference website for further information and to place your order.

In February 2019, the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, Inc. hosted a SME/IMPC International Symposium entitled Reflections, Challenges and Opportunities in Minerals Processing: Honoring the 90th Birthday of Professor Douglas W. Fuerstenau, at the 2019 SME annual meeting in Denver, CO.

Update on activities of the International Mineral Processing Council Update on the various activities of the Council since the meeting in Moscow during late 2018. The Council held its 2019 meeting in Cape Town on 10th November and a number of matters arose which will be of interest to you. Congresses XXX IMPC: As you […]

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