Les lauréats des prix MetSoc/ICM

Éminents Conférenciers de l'ICM

Les conférenciers émérites de l’ICM sont choisis en fonction de leurs réalisations dans les domaines scientifique, technique, de la gestion ou des activités éducatives liées à l’industrie des minéraux. Ils interviennent lors des réunions des sections de l’ICM et des sections étudiantes dans l’ensemble du pays.

2025 Recipient

Joël Kapusta

Joël Kapusta joined BBA in 2010 and is currently subject matter expert in sonic injection and pyrometallurgy. With over 35 years of experience, he specializes in extractive metallurgy of nonferrous metals. He is a key developer of oxygen injection technologies into molten metals (sonic injection) for bath smelting, converting, and refining furnaces that he implements and commissions in smelters to intensify the reactors while improving the operators’ safety, and to lower the reactors process off-gas volumes to better control their environmental footprint.

Joël was president of the Metallurgical and Materials Society (MetSoc) of CIM in 2007-2008 and chairman of the board of MetSoc in 2008-2009. He was a member of the Council of the Extraction and Processing Division (EPD) of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) in the USA in 2006-2007 as chair of the Copper, Nickel and Cobalt Committee. He is also a member of the Pyrometallurgy Committee of TMS since 2000.

He has organized or co-organized several symposia for both MetSoc and TMS. Most notably for METSOC, he was chair of MetSoc’s 50th Conference of Metallurgists anniversary celebrations in 2011, and of Copper 2019, the 10th Edition of the Copper International Conference.

Joël joined CIM in 1991 as a PhD student at the University of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of CIM since 2020 and the recipient in 2020 of MetSoc’s Airey award, described as the most prestigious award for a Canadian metallurgist.

2024 – James Finch​

2023 – Priti Wanjara

2022 – Steven Thorpe

2021 – Gillian Holcroft

2020 – James Budac

MetSoc a choisi de permettre à chaque section de nommer à tour de rôle le conférencier émérite de l'ICM :

2023 Métaux légers
2024 Science et ingénierie des minéraux
2025 Pyrométallurgie
2026 Hydrométallurgie
2027 Développement durable
2028 Matériaux

Confrérie de l'ICM

Le titre de "CIM Fellowship" a été créé par le Conseil du CIM en novembre 1986 pour récompenser des contributions exceptionnelles et continues au CIM et/ou aux industries minières, métallurgiques et pétrolières.

2025 Recipient

Niels Verbaan

Niels Verbaan holds a Master’s in Mining Engineering from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands and a Master’s in Hydrometallurgy from McGill University. He has over 25 years of experience in the minerals industry. He began his career at Lakefield Research (now SGS) in 2000 and held roles in Belgium and Canada before becoming director of technical services (hydrometallurgy) at SGS. In this position, he advises clients, management, and SGS global operations and sales teams on hydrometallurgical processing aspects of ores, concentrates and secondary feed streams.

Niels has authored over 40 technical papers, holds two patents, and has chaired biannual Processing of Critical Materials symposia since 2014. He currently serves as 3rd vice-president of MetSoc, the Metallurgical and Materials Society of CIM. His expertise includes metallurgical process development of commodities such as rare earths, scandium, nickel, cobalt, copper and other critical or minor metals, including recovery of metals from alternative feedstocks like seabed nodules and black mass.

2023 – none

2022 – Maurice Tagami

2021 – Mihaiela Isac, Boyd Davis

2020 – Joël Kapusta, Qingxia Liu

2019 – none

2018 – Daolun Chen, Greg Richards

2017 – none

2016 – G.Kipouros, M.Militzer, S.Shipilov

2015 – R.M.Berezowsky, J.J. Budac, X.Cao, N.Voermann

2014 – K.Coley, M.Collins, J.Goode, D.Gallienne

2013 – Vladimiros Papangelakis, Ravi Ravindran, Priti Wanjara

2012 – Akram Alfantazi, Georges Houlachi, Edmond K. Lam, Jean-Pierre Martin, Nathan Stubina

2011 – Janice Zinck, T. Utigard

2010 – Daniel Ashman, Hubert King, Ronald Molnar, Bert Wasmund, Zhenghe Xu

2009 – M. Agnew, M. Chaturvedi, D. Dreisinger, I. Masters, M. Sahoo, M. Sudbury

2008 – A. Allaire, D.L. Jones, E. Krause, and R. Sridhar

2007 – G. P. Demopoulos, B. Harris, R. Lee, N. L. Piret

2006 – R. Drew, H. Henein, V.S. Sastri and M. Xu

2005 – J. Laskowski

2004 – C.A. Fleming and S. Yue

2003 – A. Bustos, R. del Villar, T. Lehner, L. Surges, K. Thomas

2002 – M.E. Chalkley, C.A. Pickles, G.M. Ritcey, G.W. Smith

2001 – A. Galibois, C. Twigge-Molecey, S.R. Rao

2000 – C.Bazin, W.K. Lu, A.D. Pelton, D.L. Piron, G.R. Purdy, W.T. Yen

1999 – C.M. Bickert, T.T. Chen, L.E. Collins, G.H. Kaiura, V.I. Lakshmanan, D.J. Lloyd, R.W. Revie, I.V. Samarasekera, A. Vahed, D.S. Wilkinson

1998 – F. Habashi, D.W. MacMillan, W.J. Thoburn, R.C. Urquhart

1997 – L.M. Amaratunga, D. Poggi, G. Ruddle, N. Ryan, W.T. Thompson

1996 – B.R. Conard, P. Mackey, J.W. Matousek, W. Petruk, G. Van Weert

1995 – M.C. Bell, G.L. Bolton, G. Irons, D.A.R. Kay, J.P. Lewis, S. Marcuson, J. McGurn, H.J. McQueen, J. Peacey

1994 – J. Cameron, J.J. Jonas, A. McLean, E. Ozberk

1993 – C. Diaz, C.J. Newman, M.L. Wayman

1992 – G. Hatch, V. Mackiw

1991 – C. Bale, R. Bergman, W.G. Davenport, L. Seeley, G.C. Weatherly, D.R. Weir

1990 – W. Curlook, G.R. Heffernan, W.J. Langford, F. Weinberg

1989 – J.D. Boyd, J.E. Gruzleski, J.S.G. Kirkaldy, P.J. Hunt, B.H. Morrison, L.M. Pidgeon

1988 – J.K. Brimacombe, W.C. Cooper, J.E. Dutrizac, E. Peters, P. Stubbs, J.M. Toguri, W.M. Williams

1987 – R.I.L. Guthrie, D.J. Hains, M. Rigaud, P.Tarassoff, D.W. Wyslouzil

Veuillez consulter le site web de l’ICM pour plus de détails.