The Nickel and Cobalt 2009 Conference of the Metallurgical Society of Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) was held August 23 to 26, 2009 in Sudbury. At the conference, Ilya Perederiy presented a talk entitled “Pressure Oxidative Leaching of Slags from Nickel Smelters: An Update” and Ramanpal Saini gave a presentation entitled “On-Line Acid Measurements Via Electrodeless Conductivity in HPAL Processes for Nickel/Cobalt Extraction.” Also, two members of the APEC group received awards for their hard work. Ghazal Azimi received the 2009 Gordon M. Ritcey Award. This award recognizes graduate students in the field of Hydrometallurgy for outstanding performance and is accompanied with a $3,000 cash prize. Kevin McLean was awarded the Best Poster Award in the Graduate Student category. The poster entitled “Application of Molten Salt Hydrates to Laterite Nickel Ore Leaching and HCl Recovery” was co-authored by Jan de Bakker, a PhD student from Queen’s University.
