This, the 8th International Comminution Symposium (Comminution '12) will have the following set of themes: Improving environment sustainability while driving down costs: Designing and operating energy efficient circuits; Designing for the next generation of mines; Pre-concentration – ore sorting, gravity, dense media, coarser liberation; Reducing the costs of consumables – energy and dollars;

The push to finer grind for new ore bodies: Design of stirred mills – higher capacity, coarser feeds, media wear, energy consumption; Progress in modelling and scale-up; Rheology – wet and dry-Influence on classification and fine milling; Fine screening-Benefits, costs, feasibility;Compressed bed breakage-Dry grinding and classification ahead of wet recovery processes-Driving into finer grinding; Integrating new equipment and ideas into practical circuits-HPGR’s, dry classification, fine screening, sorting and separation, mixed milling HPGR circuits, coarser flotation