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CONTENTSConference Opening Address - Cobalt: Future ChallengesDavid Weight, Cobalt Development Institute, UKTrends in Nickel-Cobalt ProcessingAlan Taylor – ALTA Metallurgical Services - AustraliaIdentifying Opportunities to Reduce the Consumption of Energy Across MineralProcessing and Recovery PlantsDavid Stirling – Schneider Electric - AustraliaProduction of Nickel Pig Iron in ChinaXian Jian Guo – Ramu NiCo (MCC) Ltd - ChinaPressure Acid LeachingThe Mindoro Nickel Project HPAL Piloting and Process DevelopmentNiels Verbaan and James Brown – SGS Minerals – Canada, Boyd Wiilis – IndependentConsultant to Aker Solutions – Australia, and Debbie Marshall – Aker Metals - CanadaManganese Removal from the Gladstone Leach Residue Slurry and Solution byPrecipitationW. Zhang, W. Wang, and Z. Zhu – CSIRO Minerals and P. Mason – Gladstone PacificNickel Ltd - AustraliaChallenges of Material Selection for PAL PlantsNaresh Balakrishnan - Consultant – AustraliaControlled Rapid Autoclave BlowdownKevin Jackson – Mogas Industries – USATitanium: A Solution for Highly Corrosive Hydrometallurgical Applications- AlloySelection, Cladding and FabricationJohn Banker – Dynamic Materials Corp. - USA and Bruce Craig – MetCorr – USAField Performance Review of Autoclave ValvesJohn Williams – Mogas Industries – USABenefits of TIMETA ® PGMA in Nickel Laterite RefiningJames Grauman and Eliana Fu – TIMET – USA and Ian Flower – Minara ResourcesLimited - AustraliaTreatment of SulphidesEngineering Aspects of the Platsol ProcessMike Wardell-Johnson and G Steiper – Bateman Engineering – Australia and DDreisinger – PolyMet Mining - CanadaNickel and Cobalt Recovery from Mesaba ConcentrateKeith Mayhew, Rob Mean, Lisa O’Connor and Trevor Williams – CESL - CanadaX-Ray Sorting and Other Techniques for Upgrading Nickel OreAllison Allen and Hilton Gordon – UltraSort - AustraliaProcess & Equipment DesignSO 2 /Air Oxidation - An Engineering PerspectiveNitin Goel – GRD Minproc Ltd – Australia and Bill Bagulay – Mixtec - AustraliaThe Development of a DSX Process for the Recovery of Nickel and Cobalt fromLaterite Leach Solutions - from Batch Tests to Pilot Plant OperationC.Y. Cheng, W. Zhang, D.J. Robinson, Y. Pranolo, Z. Zhu, L. Zeng and W. Wang – CSIROMinerals, and G. Boddy and M. Godfrey – Rio Tinto Technology and Innovation - AustraliaAgitator Design for Large Scale Hindered Settling Slurry TanksRichard Kehn, Graham Seal, Robert Stewart and Bernd Gigas - SPX Process Equipment/Lightnin – Australia/USAThe Evolution of ThickenersRon Klepper – FLSmidth Minerals - USA

CONTENTS (CONT.)Exploring Synergies in Western Australian Nickel ProjectsHermann Scriba, Sam Spencer and Jeff Connor – SNC-Lavalin AustraliaLaterite Heap LeachingNickel Laterite Processing – A Shift Towards Heap Leaching.Bruce Wedderburn – Malachite Consulting – AustraliaThe Development of Nickel Laterite Heap Leach ProjectsMark Steemson and Mark Smith - Vector Engineering, Ausenco Group – Australia/USADevelopment of Heap Leaching and its Integration into the Murrin Murrin OperationsD.J. Readett and J. Fox - Minara Resources, Murrin Murrin Operations - AustraliaCobalt Extraction & Refining SymposiumThe Use of Bioleaching for Cobalt/Arsenic Tailings Remediation in Ontario CanadaPaul Miller – BacTech Mining Corp. – CanadaThe Application of Molecular Recognition Technology (MRT) in the Purification ofCobalt Process and Electrowinning StreamsSteven Izaat, Neil Izaat, Ronald Bruening and John Dale - IBC Advanced TechnologiesInc. - USADesign of Copper-Cobalt Hydrometallurgical CircuitsGraeme Miller – Miller Metallurgical Services Pty Ltd - Australia