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The CEEC Medal
Our way of saying great work. The Medal recognises outstanding research and field work on beneficial strategies for energy-efficient comminution, mineral processing, energy, water and tailings management, granted annually to the authors of outstanding papers.
Why the Medal Exists
Launched in 2012 to raise awareness of comminution research findings, alternative strategies and installed outcomes, to lower processing costs by accelerating knowledge and technology transfer, and to increase value through improved practice.
Recognition
Individuals and teams making an outstanding contribution to eco-efficiency in mineral processing by reducing energy, water and tailings.
Shared Knowledge
Work that builds global knowledge and inspires eco-efficient excellence in others, published where the industry can use it.
The Business Case
Demonstrating the business benefits of alternative flowsheets, so better practice is adopted on commercial grounds.
How Work Is Judged
Papers are assessed against three parameters. Submissions must be of a standard suitable for technical review, and written or presented within the past 18 months.
Impact
The potential reduction in energy, water and tailings delivered by the work.
Applicability
How readily the concepts can be adopted in the design or operation of mineral processing circuits, demonstrated with case studies.
Quality
Robust data analysis, logical presentation of results and a clearly communicated conclusion.
Two categories
Operations
Work grounded in operating practice: circuits, plants and improvements that have survived contact with reality on site.
Technical Research
Research contributions that advance the science and open new routes to lower energy, water and tailings outcomes.
Putting a Paper Forward
Nominations are made in two parts, then assessed in a two-step review.
Submit the application form
Provides the information about the authors and the submitted work.
Send the published work
A copy of the published paper, article or case study, submitted alongside the form.
Technical review
Meritorious submissions are distributed for review by members of CEEC’s Technical Advisory Committee.
Board approval
The committee presents its final recommendation in both categories to the CEEC Board of Directors. Board decisions are final and not subject to appeal.
What recipients receive
- Global recognition across CEEC media releases, newsletters and the CEEC website.
- Use of the CEEC Medal Winner logo on letterhead, newsletters, websites and investor bulletins.
- Presentation of the medal at a prestigious industry event in the authors’ country of employment.
- A CEEC feature article published in collaboration with a global mining media organisation.
Recipients Since 2012
Every medal and high commendation awarded, with the paper, its authors and where the work was published. In the new site each entry becomes a page of its own, linked to the paper in the Knowledge Centre and to any podcast around it.
Hydraulic Dewatered Stacking – delivering desaturated tailings management without the capital cost of filtration
Phil Newman, Andrea Lopez, Mark Bruton, Auel Kulmagambetova
Anglo American and WSP · Tailings 2024 Conference
Redefining the battery limits of processing plants – improving sustainability through the deployment of sensing technologies
William Futcher, David Seaman, Bern Klein
Newmont · Mill Operators Conference 2024, Perth
Pioneering Coarse Particle Flotation – transformative insights from five years of operation
Campbell Haines, Luke Vollert, William Downie, Isaac Heath, Rami Ghattas
Newmont Cadia · AusIMM Mill Operators’ Conference
Transformational Flowsheet: Unlocking Energy and Water Savings
Erich Dohm, Fisher Wang, Serhat Onol, Evgeny Zhmarin, Drew Hobert
Mineral Processing 2024, Mongolia
Engineering, Commissioning and Operation of a Stirred Mill in the Arctic Circle
Sarah Simard, Louis Racine, Francois Desilets, Guillaume L’Ecuyer, Francois Robichaud, Louis-Philippe Gelinas, Joel Bournival, Derek J. Reid, Daniel Roy
Agnico Eagle Meliadine Mine · Canadian Mineral Processors, Ottawa 2025
Can We Shift to A New Paradigm of Flexibility in Mining and Processing to Build Mines Powered Exclusively by The Variable Input of Renewables?
Malcolm Powell, Andy Reynolds, Shannon McCrae, Jenny Agnew, Ryan Bracey, David Way, Craig Phasey, Thomas Littlechild, David Manning
Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland and partners
Trade-Off Realities in HPGR vs. SAG Milling – A Practical Comparison of Tropicana and Gruyere Comminution Circuits
Ivka Lovatt, Michael Becker, Brian Putland, Reg Radford, John Robinson
Orway Mineral Consultants, Gold Fields, AngloGold Ashanti Australia
Pinto Valley Mine, Copper Recovery Study with the Novacell
Sherwin Morgan, Peter Amelunxen, Brandon Akerstrom, Lonn Cooper
NovaCell, Jord International, Capstone Copper
Development of Fine High-Pressure Grinding for Mineral Processing Plants
Robert McIvor, Claude Gagnon, Bern Klein, Amit Kumar
Corem and University of British Columbia
Potential and Impact of Sensor-Based Sorting on the Grinding Circuit Performance for a Polymetallic Ore
Priscila Esteves, Lucas Monteiro Correa E Lopes, Pablo Pina, Wellington Gomes, Thiago Jatoba
Steinert Latinoamericana, Nexa Resources, MinPro
Pilot Testing and Plant Design Comparison of Dry VRM Milling plus Magnetic Separation with AG and Ball Milling plus Magnetic Separation for Grange Resources’ Southdown Ore
Dean David, Dian Olwagen, Carsten Gerold, Christian Schmitz, Stefan Baaken, Chris Stanton, Michael Everitt
Wood, Grange Resources, Loesche
The Double Wheel Breakage Test
Marcos Bueno, Janne Torvela, Rajiv Chandramohan, Tabatha Chavez Matus, Toni Liedes, Malcolm Powell
Minerals Engineering, Volume 168, July 2021
Recent improvements in ore sorting at the Renison Tin Concentrator – target 1 Mt/a
Ben Wraith, Justin Resta, Johan Welmans
Bluestone Mines Tasmania Joint Venture · AusIMM Mill Operators’ Conference 2021
SAG mill energy and wear insights derived from measuring inside the mill
Paul Shelley, Eugene Davies, Jacques Olivier, Mark Atta Danso
Molycop, Curtin WA School of Mines, Westgold Resources · Comminution ’21
Throughput improvements at the Capstone Pinto Valley Operation
Umut Erol, Curtis Wettstein, Adrian Dance
Capstone Mining and SRK Consulting · Comminution ’21
Reducing Energy and Water Consumption through Alternative Comminution Circuits
Peter Lind, Kevin Murray, Alan Boylston, Isaias Arce
Newmont and Metso Outotec · 7th SAG Conference, Vancouver
Quantifying the Additional Energy Consumed by Ancillary Equipment and Embodied in Grinding Media in Comminution Circuits
Grant Ballantyne
7th SAG Conference, Vancouver
Coarse chalcopyrite recovery in a universal froth flotation machine
Graeme Jameson, Cagri Emer
Centre for Multiphase Processes, University of Newcastle · Minerals Engineering
A guide to maximising ball mill circuit classification system efficiency (CSE), for operators and equipment designers
Kyle Bartholomew, Rob McIvor, Omar Arafat
Metcom Technologies · AusIMM Mill Operators’ Conference 2018
Fine grinding circuit process improvement at the Karara Mine Concentrator
Karara Mining Limited and Nippon Eirich
No technical research medal was awarded in 2018
Pre-concentration of copper ores by high voltage pulses. Part 2: Opportunities and challenges
Fengnian Shi, Weiran Zuo, Emmy Manlapig
Minerals Engineering, 2015
Grinding Circuit Practices at Newmont
Aidan Giblett, Steven Hart
AusIMM Mill Operators Conference, 2016
McArthur River Plant Heavy Medium Mine – The Benefits of Applying the Concepts of Modern Coal Plant Design Principles to Base Metal Heavy Medium Separation
Jim Wallace, Sam Strohmayr, Keith Cameron
MetPlant 2015
Using Piston Press Tests for Determining Optimal Energy Input for an HPGR Operation
Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam, Bern Klein, Stefan Nadolski
SAG 2015
The Pre-Concentration of Precious and Base Metal Deposits Using the InLine Pressure Jig (IPJ); Higher Feed Grades and More Metal
Nigel J Grigg, Georges J Delemontex
International Mineral Processing Conference 2014, Santiago
Ultra-High-Intensity Blasting – A New Paradigm in Mining
Geoff Brent, Peter Dare-Bryan, Stuart Hawke, Michael Rothery
WorldGold 2013
Energy and Cost Comparisons of HPGR based circuits with the SABC circuit installed at the Huckleberry Mine
C. Wang, S. Nadolski, O. Mejia, J. Drozdiak, B. Klein
Canadian Mineral Processors Operators Conference, Ottawa
Optimisation and Continuous Improvement of the Antamina Comminution Circuit
E. Rybinski, J. Ghersi, F. Davila, J. Linares, W. Valery, A. Jankovic, R. Valle, S. Dikmen
Proceedings of SAG 2011