Mike
Daniel (JKMRC)
m.daniel@uq.edu.au
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Topic: "HPGR Model Verification and Scale-Up"
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Daniel graduated with a BSc in Minerals Processing
from the University of the Witwatersrand, South
Africa in 1988. He then completed his national service
in the South African Air Force at their Metallurgical
Laboratories. In 1990, Mike joined Anglo American's
FreeGold Operations in Welkom, where he gained valued
plant experience in CIP gold, pyrite flotation and
sulfuric acid production. Mike joined De Beers in
1994 and was assigned to the strategically important
FISH project (automated diamond sorting facilities).
Within his first year he took on a project management
role for the development phase of the acid processes
within this project. Towards the end of 1997 Mike
then shifted his focus towards the modelling and
simulation of diamond winning processes, within
the context of mineral resource management. At the
same time Mike became an active member of the SAIMM
, and in 1999/2000 was elected chairman of the Johannesburg
Branch for that year. Since 1998 he has been registered
as a professional engineer with the Engineering
Council of South Africa. In May 2000, Mike joined
the JKMRC as a research scholar, where he has committed
himself to completing his M.Eng.(Sc) by research
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| Sonny
Mwansa (UCT) |
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I
obtained a bachelor of Mineral Sciences (B M Sc.) degree
in Metallurgy and Mineral processing from the University
of Zambia in the School of Mines. I was offered a merit
final year study scholarship by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM),
the biggest Mining company in Zambia and comprising one
of the largest open pit and Copper process plants in the
world, upon completion of my Bachelor's degree in 2001
I went straight to work for KCM for two years until 2003.
At KCM I worked at the Konkola Concentrator which treats
about 6500 tpd of copper ore from the underground, and
went on to work at the Tailings Leach Plant (a Nchanga
process plant) that treats current concentrator tails
and reclaimed tails from dumps. At both plants, I was
inducted, taught and then given the responsible to run
the respective plant. This involved the operations of
concentrating copper from ore containing only 6% from
the underground operations through comminution and flotation
to 42% concentrate cake ready for shipment to the smelters
and leaching the tails via filtration then extracting
the copper ions through solvent extraction and finally
winning copper metal by electrolysis at TLP - Nchanga
until 30 th January 2003.
In
February 2003, I joined the Comminution research group
at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to undertake an
MSc in Engineering to study "segregation and flow
of material along SAG mills" with a view of incorporating
the research results in updating / refine the current
SAG Model which presents difficulties in predicting
grind performance of especially South African styled
SAG mills (long mills). Currently besides my MSc. Studies,
I am involved in consulting work on sampling campaigns
on South African Comminution plants as a research Assistant
for the Comminution research Group. I have obtained
sufficient experience on conducting sampling surveys
and using tools such as JKSimMet for plant optimisation.
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| Mduduzi
Dlamini (UCT) |
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To
be updated |
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| Percy
Condori (UCT) |
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B.Sc.
Metallurgical Engineer Graduated in 1995, Master in Chemical
Engineering (Mineral Processing) and Actually PhD student
at University of Cape Town (Mineral processing Research
Unit, Comminution Group)
Five
years of experience in mining industry as Supervisor,
Metallurgist and Process Engineer in copper, gold and
tungsten plants. The processes and operations involved
in these plants are gravimetric concentration, flotation,
leaching, milling and classification.
As
part of my research activities I have done studies about
hydrodynamic and metallurgical behavior of giant flotation
cells. Actually I am working in modeling of SAG/AG mills,
specially focused in the South African type mills, this
activity involved many industrials site work in his
first step and continuing with computational modelling.
One of my last activities was as part time lecturer
in two Peruvian universities.
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| Rajiv
Chandramohan (UCT) |
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Rajiv
Chandramohan was born in Sri Lanka and moved to South
Africa as a child. He completed A-Levels at the International
School of South Africa and enrolled to study Electro-Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Cape Town. He completed
his degree in 2002 and proceeded with a Masters in engineering
the following year. He was introduced to the world of
mining through his undergraduate project and he is now
completing his Master's on a similar topic in the same
institution. He has worked part time for civil and manufacturing
companies in Botswana in various divisions. He is now
working for Comminution Group in the Mineral Processing
Research Unit and is involved in the construction and
design experimental equipment. He is also an active member
of the Mineral Processing Research Unit Postgraduate Executives.
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| Chisenga
Kulyai (UCT) |
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Chisenga
is joined the Comminution Research Group at the University
of CapeTown in February 2005. His thesis work involves
using the Discrete Element Method (DEM) to inverstigate
a Rotary Mill. He graduated as an Electrical Engineer
from the University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia in 1996.
His initial work experience included extensive hands-on
projects work at the then Zambia Consolidated Copper
Mines (ZCCM), Nkana and Power Divisons. He joined ZESCO
in 1998, where he is employed as a projects engineer.
Chisenga has a very keen research interest in computational
engineering work, which he first developed from his
undergrate project work.
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| Stephen
Larbi-Bram (JKMRC) |
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Thesis
Topic: "Development of a consolidated model for tumbling
mills ".
Steve
gained his B.Sc. (Met Eng.) from the Kwame Nkrumah University
of Science and Technology (K.N.U.S.T) in 1990 and then
he worked for The Concil for Scientific and Industrial
Research for a few years during which time he studied
for and obtained his M.Phil. (Met Eng.) in 1998.
In
2000 he was appointed lecturer in the Department of
Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy at K.N.U.S.T.
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Rachel
Hawkins (JKMRC)
r.hawkins1@uq.edu.au
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| Rachel
is doing a Graduate Certificate and will then continue
with an MPhil. with the AMIRA P9N Project. |
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gained her degree from The University of Queensland
in 2003. |
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has had work experience as a Tutor with The University
of Queensland and vacation employment with Queensland
Cement Limited. |
| Rachel's
interests lie in Muay Thai martial arts, badminton,
watching live bands as well as camping and travelling.
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