AIME award for Professor Salamon

Professor Miklos Salamon, Research Adviser to the Chamber of Mines of South Africa, has won the Rock Mechanics Award for 1983 of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers 'for applications of analysis to many varied practical mine design problems’. Mintek reports Report M119 A versatile computer programme for data capture in multi-element analysis by a sequential X-ray spectrometer. Report M120 South African costs of equipment for the metallurgical industry (1983). Report M125 Commissioning of an automated microphotometer used in spark-source mass spectrometry.