Other Awards

Young Author Award

The Young Author Awards are made for the most outstanding papers presented by young authors at WCSB conferences to encourage their participation. To qualify, the author must be less than 35 years of age at the date of the conference. The Award is made at the discretion of the conference Organising Committee.

The first was the Best Paper Award of the WCSB 11 made to Killian Berelsmann of Herzog, Germany, for his outstanding paper entitled “Quality criteria in sample preparation – how to ensure full reproducibility and fully homogenization?” which he co-authored with Martin Lischka.

The second was the Best Presenter Award made to Hulisani Esra Madima of Multotec, for his presentation entitled “The case for using five-times particle nominal top-size cutter width for dry material primary increment sampling at 0.6 m/scutter speed” which he co-authored with Willem Slabbert.

The third was the Best Presentation Award made to Debra Samuel of the Rand Refinery, for her paper entitled “Comparing sampling techniques for gold bullion to find the most effective sampling method”.

The fourth award was The Best Presenter Award made to Charles Tonongei, of Anglo-American Platinum, for his presentation entitled “Variographic analysis of a concentrator plant feed slurry stream data before and after replacement of the intermediate sampler hopper”.