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Events This page is a bulletin board for forthcoming events such as conferences, seminars and exhibitions concerning mineral resource issues in the North American region. To post an event to this page please email the event details to: minerals.forum@unctad.org. Please include the event title, venue, dates, a contact name and email, and a description of the event. Additional information such as programmes or documents may also be forwarded, preferably in MS Word, Adobe PDF or text formats. Events are also listed on: InfoMine - The Events section has a comprehensive listing of all minerals, mining and processing related events worldwide. Title of event: CIM
Conference and Exhibition Event details: The CIM Conference and Exhibition is the foremost event for the Canadian minerals industry where industry leaders and professionals come together to network and share knowledge. The conference theme, Energy and Mines, underpins one of the major challenges industry faces today... more
Title of event: Coal's
New Frontier Event details: This conference will focus on the technologies that together will bring coal back into the limelight as the world's most important fossil fuel... more
Title of event: Industry
Summit on Mining Performance Event details: The Industry Summit on Mining Performance: Continuous Business Process Improvement (BPI) in the Mining, Energy, and Extractive Industries Conference will be a gathering place to discuss performance improvement issues, opportunities, and challenges, and will include presentations from industry leaders in key mining sectors-coal, metals, and nonmetallic minerals-as well as from customers, suppliers, and others with a keen interest in mining industry performance... more Title of event: 43rd
Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals Event details: The fundamental objective of the Forum is to advance the understanding of the geology of industrial minerals and their practical application. Ideas addressed cover a wide range of topics including the basic geology and geographic occurrences of mineral deposits, responsible development of natural resources, and new techniques for exploration and development of industrial minerals... more
Title of event: COM
2007- 46th Annual Conference of Metallurgists hosting Cu2007 the 6th Copper
– Cobre Conference held in conjunction with the 37th Annual Hydrometallurgy
Meeting Event details: Main topics of the Conference:
Title of event: Exploration
Fifth
Decentennial International Conference on Mining Exploration 07 Event details: Exploration 07 will review the current state of the art in geophysics, geochemistry, remote sensing, data processing and integration... more
Title of event: 50th Annual Rocky Mountain
Mineral Law Institute Further details on this conference will be posted at: http://www.rmmlf.org/confrnce/upcoming.htm
Title of event: World
Water and Environmental Resources Congress 2004 The Congress will include symposium on:
A variety of short courses and workshops are also offered.
Title of event: 14th
World Conference on Disaster Management This conference brings together professionals from the fields of:
Title of event: Accelerating
Site Closeout, Improving Performance and Reducing Costs Through Optimization The goals of the conference are to:
Title of event: Ground
Water and Environmental Law This event will focus on ground water law and environmental contamination litigation and will feature court cases and the presentation of hydrogeology, contaminant transport, and geochemistry in the courtroom.
Title of event: Natural
Attenuation for Remediation of Contaminated Sites This short course on the use of natural attenuation as a potential remediation approach to groundwater contamination provides the information needed to effectively evaluate natural attenuation as a remediation alternative at sites with petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, and other contaminants.
Title of event: The
Changing Face of Mining - Mineral Economics and Management Society (MEMS)
2004 Annual Conference Mining is in a period of transition as it confronts an array of interrelated technical, environmental, and social issues. Financial implications have multiplied as investors, indigenous people, communities, non-governmental organizations and other interests apply increasing scrutiny to mining operations. With the immediacy of worldwide communications, local incidents become global news overnight. The MEMS 2004 Conference will explore elements of this change through presentations, panel discussions, special speakers, and a plenary debate. Topics will include:
Title of event: 10th Annual British Columbia
- MEND ML/ARD Workshop - Characterization of Wastes, Changes in ARD Generating
Wastes and Recent MEND3 Projects Further information is available from the MEND website. Title of event: AAAS
Symposium 1034 - Coal Fires Burning Around the World: A
Title of event: Introduction to Metal Leaching
and Acid Rock Drainage Further information can be obtained from smithersinfo@nwcc.bc.ca
Title of event: Prediction of Metal Leaching
and Acid Rock Drainage: Theory and Practice Further information can be obtained from smithersinfo@nwcc.bc.ca
Title of event: North American Indigenous
Mining Summit The focus is on hard rock mining, gold mining, uranium mining, coal mining and other mining on and near Indigenous lands. The objective is to develop strategies to empower our Indigenous Communities to form and create perpetual alliances and networks with each other and our allies. Other topics include how mining and mining extraction affects and effects human rights, Tribal sovereignty, government to government relationships with the federal government and its agencies, state/provincial and federal legislatures, Sacred sites, traditional knowledge, right to food and food security.
Title of event: American Society for Surface
Mining and Reclamation (ASSMR) International Conference The second call for papers for the American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation (ASSMR) International Conference on "Reclamation with a Purpose" has been made. Abstracts for papers or posters should be sent to Professor Richard Barnhisel <rbarnhis@ca.uky.edu> as soon as possible.
Title of event: The Global Mining Initiative
Conference - "Resourcing the Future" The Global Mining Initiative (GMI) Conference, entitled "Resourcing the Future", is intended to be a worldwide policy dialogue and forum to assist the industry define its response to the challenges of sustainable development leading into the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) to be held later in 2002. Representatives from industry, industry associations, government and NGO stakeholders are expected to attend. The major input to the conference will come from the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project due to conclude in April 2002 with the release of a final report. Further information on the GMI and the conference, including the program, can be obtained from the conference website at www.gmiconference.com,and the GMI web site at www.globalmining.com.
Title of event: 2nd World Mines Ministries
Forum (WMMF) The 2nd World Mine Ministries Forum (WMMF) will be held in Canada in
March 2002. Attendee's will include government officials, non-government
organizations and service providers to the mineral industry. Topics to be explored at the meeting will include: mining and people; creating a positive investment climate; public perception of mining/MMSD; sustainable development; the road to Rio+10; and the Regulator's Workshop: Dealing with voluntary codes of conduct. Further information is available from the WMMF website.
Title of event: Building a Global Mining
Campaign The Building a Global Mining Campaign is an meeting intended to bring together activists, NGO representatives, and community leaders from around the world to discuss the potential for a coordinated international campaign to improve the mining industry's global performance on environmental, social, cultural and human rights issues. This meeting to planned to be the first of a series. It is hosted and organized by the Mining Policy Center (MPC). Further information is available from the Building a Global Mining Campaign and the Mineral Policy Center websites.
Title of event: Sullivan Mine Roundtable
- Lessons in Sustainability The City of Kimberley is home to the Sullivan Mine, which will be closing later this year after nearly 100 years of mining activity. Cominco Ltd., The World Bank and the City of Kimberley will host an international gathering of experts and representatives of communities of interest to examine the social, environmental and economic aspects of the Sullivan and other mine projects. While the Sullivan Mine will serve as a focal point, other case studies, including the Antamina Mine and Placer Dome's Porgera and Misima mines will be discussed. A round table format will be adopted to encourage a lively and open dialogue and the sharing of experiences and perspectives of all participants. Further information on the Sullivan
Mine and the Roundtable
is available on the TeckCominco website.
Title of event: 4th Environmental Cooperation
Workshop and the 6th APEC- GEMEED Plenary Meeting The Fourth Environmental Cooperation Workshop together with the Sixth
Plenary Meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) forum, Group of Experts on Minerals and Energy
Exploration and Development (GEMEED) was hosted by the Mining Promotion
Division of the Ministry of the Economy of Mexico. Further information and presentations are available from the GEMEED Secretariat and the Meeting/Workshop websites.
Title of event: 1st World Mines Ministries
Forum (WMMF) The proceedings of the 1st World Mine Ministries Forum (WMMF) held in
March 2000 are available from the WMMF website at http://www.wmmf.org/2000wmmf/2000proceedings.htm. Major themes of the forum included: mining and sustainable development, mining and the community and the competitiveness of nations. The event was co-organized by the Prospectors
and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), the World
Bank, the Ontario
Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (MNDM) and Natural
Resources Canada. The next WMMF will be conducted in Toronto, Canada from 13-15 March 2002. See event details above, or the WMMF website for more information.
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