FORTHCOMING EVENTS
2002
January 21
Forum on Asian Mineral Potential, Vancouver, Canada - Contact address: BCYCM; phone: +1 604 681 5328; e-mail: chamber@chamberofmines.bc.ca; web-site: www.chamberofmines. bc.ca/rdup2002. For more information contact Jeff Hedenquist, MMAJforum@aol.com (see page 20)
January 27-30
TAILINGS AND MINE WASTE '02, Fort Collins, CO USA - Contact address: Linda L. Hinshaw. Dept. of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO 80523-1372 USA; phone: +1 970 491 60 81; fax: +1 970 491 35 84/77 27; e-mail: lhinshaw@engr.colostate. edu; website: http://www.tailings.org
February 25-27
SOCIETY FOR MINING, METALLURGY AND EXPLORATION (SME), ANNUAL MEETING, Phoenix, AZ, USA - Contact address: William Wilkinson Jr., Phelps Dodge Mining Co., 2600 N., Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA; phone: +1 602 234 60 80; fax: +1 602 234 48 47; e-mail: wwilkinson@phelpsd.com
March 10-13
PROSPECTORS & DEVELOPERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada - Contact address: PDAC, 34 King Street East, 9th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5C 2X8; phone: +1 416 362 19 69; fax; +1 416 362 01 01; e-mail: info@pdac.ca; website: http://www.pdac.ca
March 11-13
SME, ANNUAL MEETING & EXHIBITION, Phoenix, AZ, USA - Contact address: Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, P.O. Box 625002 Littleton, CO 80162-5002, USA; phone +1 303 9739550; fax: +1 303 9793461; e-mail: smenet@aol.com
March 24-27
NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY, PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY (EMPG-IX), Zurich, Switzerland - Contact address: EMPG IX Organizing Committee, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute for Minerlalogy and Petrology, ETH-Zentrum, Sonneggstrasse 5, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland; phone: +41 1 632 3779 (Claudia Büchel) or 3955 (Peter Ulmer); fax: +41 1 632 1294; e-mail: empg@erdw.ethz.ch; web-site: http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/empg
March 25-28
MINTEK 2002: 6TH RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL MINING, EXPLORATION AND MINING EQUIPMENT EXHIBITION, Moscow, Russia - Contact address: ITE Group Plc., Industrial Division, 105 Salusbury Road, London NW6 6RG, UK, Mr. Oleg Netchaev, Project Manager; phone: +44 (0)20 7596 5213; fax: +44 (0)20 7596 5128; e-mail: oleg.netchaev@ite-exhibitions.com; web-site: http://www.ite-exhibitions.com
April 14-16
GLOBAL EXPLORATION 2002: INTEGRATED METHODS FOR DISCOVERY (SEG), Denver, CO, USA - Contact address: Quality Business Services (QBS), 3110 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Suite 307, Denver, CO 80227, USA; phone: +1 303 914 0694; fax: +1 303 914 9651; e-mail: darline@qbsoffiice.com, web-site: www.seg2002.org
April 14-17
5TH INTERNATIONAL GOLD SYMPOSIUM, Lima, Peru - Contact address: National Mining Oil and Energy Society (SNMPE); fax: +51 14 60 1616; e-mail: cmendoza@snmpe.org.pe
April 21-24
15TH INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS, Meridien Etoile, Paris, France - Contact address: Industrial Minerals Conference Department, Park House, Park Terrace, Worcester Park, Surrey, KT4 7HY, UK; phone: +44 207 827 99 77; fax: +44 208 335 39 94 or 337 89 43; e-mail: conferences@metalbulletin.plc.uk; website: http://www. mineralnet.co.uk
April 24-26
15TH ARGENTINE GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, El Calafate, Santa Cruz Province (Southern Patagonia), Argentina - Contact address: President Dr. Miguel Haller, Secretary Dr. Roberto Page, Asociación Geológica Argentina, Maipu 645, ler Pico, Buenos Aires, Argentina; fax: +54 11 43253104; e-mail: haller@cenpat.edu.ar or fomicruz@internet.siscotel.com; web-site: www.cenpat.edu.ar/xvcga
May 12-15
RESOURCING THE FUTURE: THE GLOBAL MINING INITIATIVE CONFERENCE: MINING, MINERALS AND METALS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, Toronto, Canada - Contact address: C/o Pinnacle Group, 2 Pardee Avenue, Suite 300, Toronto, Canada M6K 3H5; phone: +1 416 588 5051; fax: +1 416 588 5047; e-mail: pinn@pinngroup.com or Global Mining Initiative, c/o 6, St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LD, England; phone: +44 (0)20 7753 2273>; fax: +44 (0)20 7753 2309; e-mail: contact@globalmining.com; web-site: www.globalmining.com
May 14-18
AAPG HEDBERG RESEARCH CONFERENCE "DEFORMATION, FLUID FLOW AND RESERVOIR APPRAISAL IN FORELAND FOLD AND THRUST BELTS", Palermo, Italy - Contact address: François Roure francois.roure@ifp.fr or Rudy Swennen rudy.swennen@ifp.fr (see page 20)
May 20-24
THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE (GES-6). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA - Contact address: e-mail ges6@soest.hawaii.edu, web-site: http://imina.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/ges-6/
May 25-26
MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA SHORT COURSE ON SYNCHROTRON RADIATION: EARTH, ENVIRONMENTAL AND MATERIALS SCIENCES APPLICATIONS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada - Contact address: Grant S. Henderson, henders@geology.utoronto.ca; web-site: www.usask.ca/geology/sask2002/ (see page 20)
May 29-31
GREEN PROCESSING 2002: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SUSTAINABLE PROCESSING OF MINERALS, Cairns, Australia - Contact address: Miriam Way, AusIMM, P.O. Box 660, Carlton South, Victoria, Australia 3053; phone: +61 3 966 23166; fax: +61 3 966 23662; e-mail: conference@ausimm.com.au, web-site: www.ausimm.com
June 3-7
ZEOLITE 2002: 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE OCCURRENCE, PROPERTIES AND UTILIZATION OF NATURAL ZEOLITES, Thessaloniki, Greece - Contact address: web-site: http://www.chem.auth.gr/activities/zeo2002/
June 11-13
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IRON ORE INDUSTRY: TODAY AND TOMORROW, Kiruna, Sweden - Contact address: Dr. K. Hanumantha Rao, Convener, TIOITT-2002, Division of Mineral Processing, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden; phone: +46 920 91705; fax: +46 920 97364/91199; e-mail: Hanumantha.Rao@km.luth.se
June 17-21
CHAPMAN CONFERENCE: VOLCANISM AND THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE, Thera, Greece - Contact address: A. Singer, AGU Meetings, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA; phone +1 202 462 6900; fax: +1 202 328 0566; e-mail: meetinginfo@agu.org; web-site: www.agu.org/meetings/cc02bcall.html
June 24-28
IGARSS 2002 AND THE 24TH CANADIAN REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM, Toronto, Canada - Contact address: Lisa Ostendorf, IEE GRSS Director of Information Services, 63 Live Oak Lane, Stafford, VA 22554; phone: +1 540/658 1676; e-mail: ostendorf@email.msn.com, web-site: http://www.igarss02.ca
June 30-July 5
16TH AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL CONVENTION. GEOSCIENCE 2002: EXPANDING HORIZONS, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide SA, Australia - Contact address: The Organising Committee, 16th Australian Geological Convention, c/-the Secretary GSA (SA Division), P.O. Box 295, Kent Town, SA 5071; e-mail: 16thagc.gsa.org.au; web-site: www.16thagc.gsa.org.au
July 17-August 2
SGA-Cosponsored
9TH INTERNATIONAL PLATINUM SYMPOSIUM AND FIELD TRIPS TO THE STILLWATER COMPLEX (IGCP 427/SEG/SGA), Billings, MT, USA - Contact address: Roger Cooper, Dept. of Geology, Lamar University,P.O. Box 10031, Beaumont, TX 77710; phone: +1 409 880 8239; e-mail: cooperrw@hal.lamar.edu; web-site: http://www.platinumsymposium.org
July 22-27
SGA-Cosponsored
11TH IAGOD QUADRENNIAL SYMPOSIUM/ GEOCONGRESS 2002, Windhoek, Namibia - Contact address: The Secretary IAGOD/GEOCONGRESS 2002, P.O. Box 44283, LINDEN 2104, SOUTH AFRICA; web-site: http://www.wits.ac.za/gssa (see page 21)
August 18-23
12TH V.M. GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE, Davos, Switzerland - Contact address: Prof. A. Halliday, Institut für Min. und Petrographie, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092, Zürich Switzerland; e-mail: halliday@erdw.ethz.ch; website: http://gs.wustl.edu/conferences/
August 25-30
GONDWANA 11: CORRELATIONS AND CONNECTIONS, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand - Contact address: Susannah Hawtin, Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand; phone: +64 3 364 2136; fax: +64 3 364 2197; e-mail: s.hawtin@anta.canterbury.ac.nz; web-site: www.anta.canterbury.ac.nz
September 1-6
IMA 2002: 18TH GENERAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION: MINERALOGY FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM, Edinbourgh, Scotland, UK - Contact address: Executive Secretary: Mr K. Murphy, Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 41 Queen's Gate, London SW7 5HR, United Kingdom; phone: +44 171 584 7516; e-mail: IMA2002@ed.ac.uk or info@minersoc.org; web-site: http://www.minersoc.org
September 9-11
IRON ORE 2002, Perth, Australia - Contact address: web-site: www.ausim.com
September 10-11
International Workshop, Uranium Deposits: From their Genesis to their Environmental Aspects (IAGOD), Prague, Czech Republic - Bohdan Kribek, Czech Geological Survey, Geologicka 6, 15200 Prague 5, Czech Republic; phone/fax: +420 2 581 7390; e-mail: kribek@cgu.cz; web-site: http://xrd.cgu.cz/uranium.htm
September 15-21
URANIUM MINING AND HYDROGEOLOGY III, INTERNATIONAL MINE WATER ASSOCIATION SYMPOSIUM - MINE WATER AND THE ENVIRONMENT, Freiberg, Germany - Contact address: Prof. Dr. B. Merkel/Dr. Shristian Wolkerdorfer, Lehrstuhl für Hydrogeologie, Gustav-Zeuner Street 12, D-09596 Freiberg/Sachsen, Germany; phone: +49 3731 393309; fax: +49 3731 392720; web-site: http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de, www.IMWA.de
September 16-18
5TH INTERANTIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ANDEAN GEODYNAMICS, Toulouse, France - Contact address: ISAG, IRD, LMTG, 38 Rue des 36 Ponts; 31000 Toulouse, France, Attn.: Patrice Baby, Gerard Herail, Alain Laenu; e-mail ISAG@cict.fr
September 18-20
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM "METALLOGENY OF PRECAMBRIAN SHIELDS", Kyiv, Ukraine - Contact address: Symposium Secretariat, 13A Tymoshenka str. 128, Kyiv, 04212 Ukraine; phone/fax: +380 44 295 72 98; e-mail: bt@ukrdgri.gov.ua
September 22-27
SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS (SEG), INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION AND 72ND ANNUAL MEETING, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - Contact address: SEG Business Office; phone: +1 918/497 5500; fax: +1 918/497 5557; web-site: http://seg.org
September 23-25
APPLIED STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION AND MINING, INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia - Contact address: AIG, P.O. Box 1094, West Perth 6827, Australia; phone: +61 8 9226 0500; fax: +61 8 9226 0700; e-mail: aig@aig.asn.au, web-site: http://www.aig.asn.au
October 7-10
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ENERGY AND MINERAL PRODUCTION (SWEMP-2002), Cagliari, Italy - Contact address: Prof. R. Ciccu, Departimento di Geoingegneria e Tecnologie Ambientali, Universita degli Studi di Cagliari, Piazza d'Armi 09123, Cagliari, Italy; e-mail: ciccu@unica.it; web-site: http://geoing.unica.it/digita/swemp/index.htm
October 20-24
SEG, MINERAL PROCESSING PLANT DESIGN, OPERATING PRACTICE AND CONTROL CONFERENCE, Vancouver, BC, Canada - Contact address: SME, Meetings Department, P.O. Box 625002, Littleton, CO 80162-5002, USA; phone: +1 303 973 9550; fax: +1 303 979 3461; e-mail: sme@smenet.org
October 28-31
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (GSA), ANNUAL MEETING, Denver, CO, USA - Contact address: GSA, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, CO 80301-9140, USA; phone: +1 303 447 2020; fax: +1- 303 447 0648; e-mail: meetings@geosociety.org; web-site: http://www.geosociety.org/ meetings/index.htm
2003
February 24-26
SOCIETY FOR MINING, METALLURGY AND EXPLORATION (SME), ANNUAL MEETING, Cincinnati, OH, USA - Contact address: SME, Meetings Department, P.O. Box 277002, Littleton, CO 80127, USA; e-mail: sme@smenet.org
March 9-12
PROSPECTORS & DEVELOPERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, ANNUAL CONVENTION, Toronto, Canada - Contact address: PDAC, 34 King Street East, 9th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5C 2X8; phone: +1 416 362 1969; fax: +1 416 362 0101; e-mail info@pdac.ca; web-site: www.pdac.ca
April 7-11
JOINT MEETING: EUROPEAN GEOPHYSICAL SOCIETY (EGS) XXVIII GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION (AGU) SPRING 2003 MEETING, Nice, France - Contact address: EGS office, Max-Planck-Str. 13, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; phone: +49 5556 1440; fax: +49 5556 4709; e-mail: egs@copernicus.org; web-site: www.copernicus.org/EGS/ or AGU Meetings Department, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA; phone: +1 202 462 6900; fax: +1 202 328 0566; e-mail: meetingsinfo@agu.org; web-site: www.agu.org/meetings/
April 13-17
EUROPEAN UNION OF GEOSCIENCES (EUG) XII, Strasbourg, France - Contact address: EUG Office-EOST, 5, rue Rene Descartes, 67084 Stasbourg Cedex, FRANCE; phone: +33 3 88 45 01 91; fax: +33 3 88 60-38 87; e-mail: eug@eost.u-strasbg.fr; web-site: eost.u-strasbg.fr/EUG
June 22-27
8TH INTERNATIONAL KIMBERLITE CONFERENCE, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - Contact address: Dr. Roger H. Mitchell, Geology Department, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1; phone: +1 807 343 8287; fax: +1 807 623 7526; e-mail: Roger.Mitchell@lakeheadu.ca; web-site: www.venuewest.com/8IKC
August 29-September 3
THE 21ST INTERNATIONAL GEOCHEMICAL SYMPOSIUM (IGES) OF THE ASSOCIATION OF EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTS, Dublin, Ireland - Contact address: Eibhlin Doyle; e-mail: eibhlindoyle@gsi.ie; web-site: http://www.aeg.org/Symposia/21stSymposiumTrip/21st_international_geochemical_s.htm
August 31-September 3
NORTH ATLANTIC MINERALS SYMPOSIUM (NAMS-2003), Dublin, Ireland - Contact address: web-site: www.gov.nf.ca/nams/
September 7-11
6TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY (ISEG), Edinburgh, Scotland - Contact address: John Farmer, Department of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh, Joseph Black Building, Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EHP 3JJ Scotland; phone: +44 131 650 1000; fax: +44 131 650 4757; e-mail: J.G.Farmer@ed.ac.uk
September 15-18
INDUSTRIAL MINERALS AND BUILDING STONES, INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (IAEG), Istanbul, Turkey - Contact address: Prof. Dr. Erdogan Yüzer, Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Moden Fakültesi, Ayazaga Kampüsü 80626-Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey; phone/fax: +90 212 2856 146; e-mail: yuzer@itu.edu.tr
September 28-October 3
SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS (SEG), INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION AND 73RD ANNUAL MEETING, Dallas, TX, USA - Contact address:SEG Business Office; phone: +1 918/497 5500; fax: +1 918/497 5557; web-site: http://seg.org
October 5-10
THE XXII INTERNATIONAL MINERAL PROCESSING CONGRESS, Cape Town, South Africa - Contact address: Mrs. Meg Winter, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa; fax: +27 (0)21 689 7579; e-mail: mw@chemeng.uct.ac.za; web-site: http://www.impc2003.org.za/
November 1-5
19TH WORLD MINING: MINING IN THE 21ST CENTURY - QUO VADIS? CONGRESS & EXPO - 2003, New Delhi, India - Contact address: The Institution of Engineers (India), Indian National Committee of World Mining Congress, 8, Gokhale Road Calcutta -700020; phone: +91 33 2238311, 2238314, 2238316; fax: +91 33 2238345; e-mail: ieihqrs@vsnl.com; web-site: www.tafcon.com or http://www.19wmce2003.com
November 2-5
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA: ANNUAL MEETING, Seattle, Washington, USA - Contact address: GSA Meetings Department, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, CO 80301-9140, USA; phone: +1 303 447 2020; fax: +1 303 447 0648; e-mail: meetings@geosociety.org; web-site: http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/index.htm
2004
February 23-25
SME ANNUAL MEETING AND EXHIBITION, Denver, Colorado, USA - Contact address: Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration; phone: +1 303 973 9550; fax: +1 303 979 3461; web-site: http://www.smenet.org
August 18-28
32ND INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, Florence, Italy - Contact address: Matteo Moscatelli or Erica Galli, Newtours SpA, Via San Donato 20, I-50127 Florence, Italy; phone: +39 055 33611; fax: +39 055 33611250/350; e-mail: newtours@newtours.it; web-site: http://www.newtours.it or http://www.32igc.org
October 10-15
SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS (SEG), 74TH ANNUAL MEETING AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION, Denver, CO, USA - Contact address: Debbi Hyer, 8801 S. Yale, Tulsa, OK 74137, USA; phone: +1 918 497 5500; e-mail: dhyer@seg.org; web-site: meeting.seg.org