An algorithm for finding common tangents to Gibbs energy functions is presented. The approach differs significantly from those which have been used previously and has the advantage of being very robust in the sense that one can start with a quite rough approximation to the desired solution and still obtain iterative convergence to any required precision to the solution.
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