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PYRO 2011 |
Southern African Pyrometallurgy 2011 International ConferenceCradle of Humankind, South Africa, 6-9 March 2011The SAIMM Pyro 2011 conference is envisaged as an international conference on pyrometallurgy with a Southern African flavour. The primary intention is to showcase Southern African pyrometallurgical operations and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between people from various types of smelters.
The conference will take place in the 'Cradle of Humankind' world heritage area, about 40 km from Johannesburg. This keeps the conference within easy reach of the city and yet far enough out into the countryside to allow people to focus on the conference. It is also within easy reach of many of the pyrometallurgical plants for those people who would like to participate in post-conference visits. There is a particular significance to the choice of location, in that the Swartkrans area close to the Sterkfontein Caves is the site of the earliest evidence of the deliberate controlled use of fire by humans (about 1.3 million years ago), and this is obviously a necessary precursor to pyrometallurgy. The area also lends itself to a very wide range of outdoor, social, and cultural activities to supplement the technical content of the programme. The conference is planned to run from 6-9 March 2011, with some introductory social activities planned for the Sunday afternoon preceding the three-day conference. Post-conference plant visits will be arranged for those interested. Of significance to South African participants who are registered professional engineers, is the fact that this conference will provide points towards the Continuing Professional Development that is required (as of 1 January 2006) to maintain registration with the Engineering Council of South Africa.
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