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Welcome to World Gold 2009 hosted by the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) in conjunction with the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). The previous two conference Calgary and Cairnes ( By and Co-products and the environment).

The Fourth World Conference on Sampling and Blending (WCSB4) will be held in Cape Town, South Africa during October 2009. WCSB4 follows the first three successful WCSB conferences held in Esbjerg (2003), Brisbane (2005) and Porto Alegre (2007), and, in keeping with the wishes of the first WCSB committee to hold the conference on all the major continents, the next venue will be Africa i.e. Cape Town. The WCSB was initiated in Denmark as a forum for interaction between sampling practitioners from different disciplines operating in a diversity of fields such as mining, industry, agriculture, environmental sciences, medicine, pharmacy and others.

The Colloquium introduces the best students to the mining industry at the threshold of their career and to allows them the exposure to communicate their work to a professional audience. This year, students from the mining and metallurgical departments of the Universities of the Witwatersrand, Pretoria, and Johannesburg together with metallurgical students from the Tswane and Vaal Universities of Technology will present their final projects on the 19th of October 2009 at the Sanlam Auditorium in Pretoria.

The SAIMM wishes to reach further into the mining industry in 2009, and to persuade more mining and metallurgical professionals to attend and see the caliber of young person’s about to embark on their careers in the mining industry. This has become more important, especially since the demand for mining engineers and metallurgists has risen so dramatically in recent years.

A cocktail party will be held after the event.