Henry is a Geologist with 15 years’ experience in mining geology in gold, coal and base metals. Henry then worked in sales of equipment and consumables s to the resources sector for 7 years. He has been with Scantech for 17 years and is currently Chief Marketing Officer and Minerals Consultant. Henry has presented over 30 papers on the use of real time analysis technologies in the minerals, recycling and steel sectors for process improvement and resource conservation.

EXPERIENCE Join Nippon Steel Corporation in 1999. Ironmaking technical Manager untill 2008 in Yawata Works ironmaking div., responsible for ore material planning and technical matters. Ironmaking plant operating manager from 2008 to 2010 in Yawata Works ironmaking div., responsible for operating sinter plant, ore yard control including unloading, and ore material technical matter solutions. Senior researcher since 2010 and currently responsible for iron ore pre-treatment and sinter process R. & D. EDUCATION Master degree on Metallurgy / Materials Science / Materials Processing in 1999, at Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, JAPAN.

Nichole Maistry is a senior engineer at Mintek in the Mineral Processing Department. She obtained her MSc Engineering in Metallurgy and Materials from the University of the Witwatersrand, as well as a National Certificate in management from Duke CE. Prior to starting at Mintek, she worked at ArcelorMittal for six years. During this time, she worked at the sinter plant for four years and the blast furnace for two years where she gained valuable experience in processing of ferrous commodities.

Peter Donecker was born in Sydney in 1952. He completed a degree in Chemical Engineering from Sydney University in 1976. He held various process engineering positions within Comalco, beginning at the Weipa mine site and eventually as Senior Process Engineer in the head office in Brisbane. In 1990, with the founding of the CRA Advanced Technical Development (CRA-ATD) research facility in Perth he moved back to WA to take up a position as Principal Technologist in the Materials Science Section of CRA-ATD. While investigating the use of wear materials in chutes within the CRA group, he became aware of the dominance of design as a factor in materials performance. He set up the first scale modelling loop in the laboratory at CRA-ATD and completed the first successful demonstration of the technique for a bauxite chute at Weipa in 1993. Following the closure of the CRA-ATD facility in 1996, Peter founded Bulk Solids Modelling. He has been conducting scale modelling of conveyor transfer chutes since then, initially in Perth, then at Pemberton and currently at Capel in SW WA. During that time, he has modelled chutes for clients in Australia, Brazil, Canada and Asia.

Altansukh Batnasan obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from the Mongolian University of Science and Technology in 2000 and 2001, respectively. He earned his PhD in materials engineering in 2011 from Tohoku University, Japan. He is a project lecturer at the Department of Earth Resource Engineering and Environmental Science at the Graduate School of International Resource Sciences, Akita University, Japan. His research areas are mineral processing, extractive metallurgy and recycling. Effective and eco-friendly processes and methods for recovering critical and precious metals from their ores and electronic waste are investigated. Current research is focused on the dephosphorization and removal of impurities from iron ores by a combined method consisting of mineral processing, hydro- and pyro-metallurgy.

Mining engineer with more than 10 years experience in iron ore industry and R&D projects. MSc. in Mineral Technology by UFMG (Brazil), Project Management specialist by USP/Esalq (Brazil) and PhD candidate by Université de Lorraine (France). Solid experience in mineral processing area, with focus on beneficiation of low grade ores, tailings recovery, geometallurgy, ultrafine ores concentration and process simulation.