Flotation ’11 is set to be the biggest in MEI’s biennial series of flotation conferences, held at the Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town. This year’s conference will be held from November 14-17, and has attracted 13 major sponsors. The event comprises two separate symposia, Flotation Fundamentals, and Flotation Applications and Plant Practice.  The keynote speaker in the former will be Prof. Jim Finch, of McGill University, Canada, and in the latter Dr. Dan Alexander Director of the JKMRC, Australia. There is now a final call for abstracts for the conference, which should be sent to [email protected] by the end of June.  Full conference details are at www.min-eng.com/flotation11 International Mining is a media sposnor for this important event.