Lina Hockaday and Rodney Jones have been visiting Trondheim this Spring as a part of the INTPART project Metal Production. Lina has been here for 1,5 month and Rodney for two week and the exchange has been valuable for all parts. Thank you for the visit and welcome back!

Lina Hockaday is currently a Senior Engineer at Mintek’s pyrometallurgy division and has a background in chemical engineering and extractive metallurgy. She is enrolled for a part-time PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of Stellenbosch with her research topic being “The solar thermal treatment of manganese ores”. She is also Work Package 2 leader in the EU funded PreMa project, tasked with demonstrating concentrating solar thermal preheating of manganese ores. Lina visited NTNU and SINTEF as part of the INTPART project and for cooperation in the PreMa project.

Rodney Jones is a Senior Technical Specialist in the Pyrometallurgy Division at Mintek, as well as an Honorary Adjunct Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is a Past President of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM).  He paid a short visit to NTNU and SINTEF as part of the INTPART project Metal Production. While in Trondheim, he met with the organising committee of Infacon XVI (International Ferro-Alloys Congress), which will be held in Norway in June 2021.  Rodney chaired the previous Infacon event in Cape Town in 2018 and his experience from the last Infacon Congress is of great value for the Norwegian organising committee.