Abstract. We study a class of geometric Lorenz flows, introduced independently by Afraȋmovič, Bykov & Sil ′ nikov and by Guckenheimer & Williams, and give a verifiable condition for such flows to be mixing. As a consequence, we show that the classical Lorenz attractor is mixing.
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