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CIM's TORONTO 2005 - "MINING ROCKS" April 24 to 27, 2005 CIM Geological Society Activities - A MUST SEE "The Convention within the Convention" Organizers of the GeolSoc activities at the 2005 CIM Annual General Meeting in Toronto have gone all out to ensure this will be a meeting to remember. Plans include a 1½-exploration geochemistry workshop followed by seven full (10-11 presentations) and four half technical sessions (5-6 presentations). Four very interesting field trips will round out the agenda. Topics to be covered in the technical sessions include: World Class Ni-Cu-PGM deposits, Diamonds, VMS deposits, Gold deposits and exploration economics, IOCG deposits, Mine Geology Issues, Geometallurgical Mapping, Collaborative Geoscience Initiatives, Mining in Southern Ontario and, in the session entitled: The Project Development Toolkit, an overview will be provided of the various aspects which workers in the mine development field need to understand to conduct the evaluation, advancement and development of a mining project, in today's Canadian regulatory environment. Some very well known and respected people within academia as well as the mining/exploration business have so far been confirmed as presenters (some 100 in total!). These include: John Ayer, Michael Doggett, Jim Franklin, Al Galley, Tony Green, Mark Hannington, Tony Naldrett, Pat Williams, Vic Wall, and Reid Keays to date, as well as many mine and exploration geologists from existing or emerging mining/exploration districts. Activities will get underway on Saturday, April 23rd with a Geochemistry Workshop entitled: "Practical Approaches to Exploration Geochemistry for Mineral Deposits". This will be immediately followed, starting on Sunday afternoon, April 24th, with the commencement of the CIM GeolSoc Special Sessions, slated to continue on Monday and Tuesday afternoon as well as all day on Wednesday, April 25th, 26th and 27th, respectively. Field trips are scheduled to start on April 28th and GeolSoc has arranged four which are expected to generate a lot of interest. FNX have kindly agreed to permit an underground and surface tour of their exciting new Ni-Cu-PGM operation in Sudbury. Similarly a trip will be held to Southeast Ontario to examine industrial mineral operations there. As well, SGS-Lakefield has graciously agreed to host a tour of their facilities in Lakefield. Finally, an overseas trip to the various deposits in SW Iberia is at the advanced planning stage. Most trips are one-day in length. However, the Sudbury trip will require an overnight stay in Sudbury whereas the Spain/Portugal trip starts and ends in Lisbon and will be 12 days in duration. All and all, this promises to be one of the best CIM AGM's ever, in no small part due to the hard work being invested by CIM GeolSoc to ensure that every geologist attending goes home satisfied. To view the CIM website Click Here |
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