NEWS & EVENTS - Global Comminution Collaborative

The GCC’s industry-focused training has been running since August 2022. The training will start with a technical overview with important practical insights for senior technical staff, metallurgists, plant managers, senior operation people. The application, strengths, weaknesses, value in circuit, operation of the equipment and processes.

Sessions are over Zoom: 2 hours per session, with one topic and a discussion period.
Standard times are: 14:00 – 16:00 CEST; Brisbane 10 – 12 pm; Toronto 8 – 10 am.
For summer time zones: Santiago, Rio 9-11 am

We will record for later viewing for areas out of viable participation and offer a separate Q&A session as requested.

UPCOMING TRAINING DATES

The training has been divided into four Modules, with two modules per year. The schedule for these is below. We will try to maintain this unless there are significant participation issues on the given dates.

6 August 2026

Module 1 introduction & Overview of the integrated mineral processing chain
(Malcolm Powell)

3 September 2026

Principles of breakage and energy usage (Marcelo Tavares and Malcolm Powell)

8 October 2028

Comminution principles applied to equipment selection (Holger Lieberwirth)

5 November 2026

Crushing and coarse screening – Application (Gauti Asbjörnsson & Kanishk Bhadani)

3 December 2026

Materials handling: stockpile, bins, segregation and feed management (Malcolm Powell, Arno Kwade, Marko Hilden)

4 February 2027

Introduction to Module 2 & Classification – wet (Aubrey Mainza, Sherry Bremner & Ann-Christin Brandt)

4 March 2027

Ore Characterization for Comminution
(Marcelo Tavares)

1 April 2027

Energy Efficient Dry Grinding Technologies – HPGR (Hakan Dundar and Tulio Campos)

6 May 2027

Energy Efficient Dry Grinding Technologies – VRM, Ball milling and fine classification (Hakan Benzer & Hakan Dundar)

6 May 2027

Energy Efficient Dry Grinding Technologies – VRM, Ball milling and fine classification (Hakan Benzer & Hakan Dundar)

1 July 2027

SAG/AG and ball mills (Marko Hilden, Malcolm Powell & Marcelo Tavares)

UPCOMING SEMINARS

We host regular seminars online, open to all interested parties. These are typically on the last Thursday of every month and feature interesting hot topics of research in academia and industry.

The next seminar will be held on 27 August at 12 pm CEST. Dr. Johannes Quist will be presenting the work “From Drill Core to Comminution Response: Linking Ore Variability, Breakage Modelling and Process Prediction”.

Please contact us for a link to join the seminar.

UPCOMING EVENTS

There are new and exciting opportunities and interactions coming in 2026. Watch this space to remain updated.

GCC NEWS

Prof. Narasimha Mangadoddy Receives National Geoscience Award 2023

We are proud to announce that Prof. Narasimha Mangadoddy, from the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad, has received the prestigious National Geoscience Award 2023. This award was presented by the Ministry of Mines, Government of India.

Prof. Mangadoddy was recognized for his significant contributions to the processing and modeling of near-gravity materials and high-ash Indian coals, as well as high alumina-rich iron ores, chromite ore, and iron ore slimes. His work utilizes both experimental and computational techniques.

In addition to his research, Prof. Mangadoddy is actively involved in academic activities related to mineral processing, particulate technology, and computational modeling. He has also played a key role in designing Mineral Processing Engineering courses.