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This symposium honors Dr. Shijie Wang for his exceptional contributions to extractive metallurgy, advancing the extraction and refining of copper, precious metals, platinum-group metals, bismuth, tellurium, nickel, and rare earth elements. His distinguished career includes leadership roles at ASARCO Inc., Freeport-McMoRan Inc., and Rio Tinto’s Kennecott Utah Copper, along with more than 40 journal publications and four important U.S. patents. A longtime TMS member and former chair of the Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy Committee, he is also a recipient of the EPD Distinguished Service Award and served as a co-chair of the Extraction 2018 conference.
Symposium Scope
This symposium will highlight recent advancements in extractive metallurgy, with an emphasis on hydrometallurgical, electrochemical, and chemical processes central to the recovery and refining of critical, precious, and base metals. The program will focus on innovations that improve efficiency, selectivity, impurity control, and environmental performance across industrial operations and their corporate impacts.
Presentations may examine leaching behavior, solution chemistry, reagent optimization, kinetic and thermodynamic modeling, processing approaches for ores, intermediates, and recycled materials, including the potential use of AI in these areas.
The symposium also welcomes research on emerging extraction pathways, metal recycling methods, and downstream processing that links refined metal quality to microstructure and performance. Collectively, the program aims to bring together researchers and industry professionals to share insights that advance the science and application of modern metallurgical extraction.
Technical Focus Areas
* Hydrometallurgical Recoveries of Au, Ag, Cu, As, Bi, Ni, Sb, PM/PGM, Te, and Se.
* Smelting, Electrowinning and Refining Technologies, Impurity Management, and Cell-house Practices.
* Leaching and Chemical Extraction Science of Base Metals.
* Extraction and Alloying of Bi and Te.
* Novel Methods of Processing and Recycling Cu, Ni and Pb.
* Downstream Processing of Refined Copper and Copper Alloys.
* Extraction and Refining of Rare Earth Metals.
Note regarding publication: Authors seeking an oral presentation opportunity must submit a manuscript for the conference proceedings. |