The 6th International Congress on the Science 
and Technology of IronMaking - ICSTI
The 42th ABM IronMaking Seminar
The 13th ABM Iron Ore Symposium

"For the first time, the ICSTI - The International Congress of the Science and Technology of IronMaking - will be hosted in Latin America, more specifically in Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil"

October 14th to 18th, 2012 - Hotel Royal Tulip Rio de Janeiro

A whole special program on charcoal based IronMaking

Agglomeration (sintering, pelletizing and briquetting)
Biomass production and application
Blast furnace design and operation
CO₂ reduction and energy saving
Cokemaking
Direct reduction
Environmental control
Fundamentals and new developments
Iron ore production
Modelling, instrumentation and automation
New and emergent ironmaking technologies
Recycling technologies
Self-reduction and cold bonded agglomeration

A whole special program on Iron Ore

Agglomeration
Concentration process modelling, simulation, control and automation
Geometallurgy
Iron ore commercialization
Iron ore process development
Materials handling
New Iron ore projects
New technologies for iron ore concentration
Ore characterization
Quality control
Tailings management

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts - January 30th, 2012
Manuscripts - March 30th, 2012

HANDING IN OF ABSTRACTS (PREFERENTIALLY IN ENGLISH)
Abstracts shall be sent solely by Internet

CONTRIBUTIONS MUST BE UNPUBLISHED IN BRAZIL

HANDING IN OF ORIGINALS
The proceedings of this seminar shall only contain the papers sent by the dates indicated above which comply wiht the standards established by ABM

ALL THE PUBLICATION RIGHTS OF THE WRITTEN PAPERS AND ORAL PRESENTATIONS WILL BE YIELDED TO ABM

PRIZES
The best papers presented at the seminar by members of ABM, will be running for prize awarded by:
Intendente Câmara - Usiminas - Iron ore reduction.
Multiserv - Recuperation of economic value of metallic wastes generated in Steel Mills.
Samarco Mineração SA - Iron ore extraction and beneficiation.
Vale - Iron ore preparation for reduction.

PUBLICATION
Papers presented at the seminar, being published in the proceedings of the event.

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HELD BY
Brazilian Metallurgical, Materials and Mining Association - ABM

FURTHER INFORMATION
Patricia Dias Ferreira - 55 11 5534-4333 ext. 146
Juliana Canabate - 55 11 5534-4333 ext.157
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INFORMATION ABOUT PAPERS
Phone.: (55 11) 5534-4333 - Fax: (55 11) 5534-4330
Margareth Nunes - ext. 124 - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Cintia Viana Ramos - ext. 122 - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

INFORMATION ABOUT SPONSORSHIP
Phone.: (55 11) 5534-4333 - Fax: (55 11) 5534-4330
Marli Ferreira - extension 175 - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Maria Lúcia de Araújo Castro - extension 133 - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

EXPEDIENT:
President: Nelson Guedes de Alcântara
Vice-president: Alfredo Huallem
Chairman of the board: Karlheinz Pohlmann
Asset director: Hideyuki Hariki
Executive director: Horacídio Leal Barbosa Filho
Directors:
Antenor Ferreira Filho
Antonio Siqueira Viana
Carlos Alberto Briganti
Carlos Cunha Dias Henriques
Carlos de Moura Neto
Delmar Barros Ribeiro
Evando Mirra de Paula e Silva
Hermenio Pinto Gonçalves
Márcio Frazão Guimarães Lins
Marcos Alexandre Stuart Nogueira
Renato Cesar Brito de Moura
Rogério Tales Silva Carneiro
Sérgio Leite de Andrade
Sérgio Neves Monteiro
Simone Kaukal Valladares

Event manager: Rosangela Ziliotte
Event organization:
Events Analyst - Patricia Dias Ferreira
Support - Juliana Canabate
Proceedings edition: Cristina Fleury Leitão

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