Recent MetSoc/CIM Award Recipients
CIM Distinguished Lecturer
CIM Distinguished Lecturers are chosen on the basis of their accomplishments in scientific, technical, management or educational activities related to the minerals industry, and speak at CIM Branch and Student Chapter meetings across the country.
2024 Recipient
James Finch
James Finch was a professor in the department of mining and materials engineering at McGill University from 1973-2014. Holding a succession of industrial research chairs, he supervised 50 PhDs, authored 400 + articles, and co-authored two books: Column Flotation (1990) and the 8th Edition of Wills’ Mineral Processing Technology (2016). He is a recipient of the Gaudin Award (SME), the Alcan Award, the Falconbridge Innovation Award, the Leo Derikx Synergy Award for Innovation (NSERC), and the IMPC Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a two-time recipient of the CIM Distinguished Lecturer and the CMP Best Presentation Award. A conference in his honour was held in Sudbury in 2009, and he was general chair of the XXVIII IMPC held in Québec City in 2016. He is a CIM Fellow and in 2002 was elected to the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada. He retired in 2014 as the Gerald G. Hatch Emeritus Professor in mining and metallurgical engineering.
2023 – Priti Wanjara 2022 – Steven Thorpe 2021 – Gillian Holcroft 2020 – James Budac |
MetSoc has chosen to allow each section in rotation to nominate the CIM Distinguished Lecturer:
2023 Light Metals
2024 Minerals Science and Engineering
2025 Pyrometallurgy
2026 Hydrometallurgy
2027 Sustainability
2028 Materials
CIM Fellowship
The CIM Fellowship award was established by CIM Council in November 1986 for outstanding continuous contributions to CIM and/or the mining, metallurgical and petroleum industries.
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 |
Please refer to the CIM Website for complete details.
