ICAM 2011
Next ICAM meeting will be held 1-5 August 2011 in Trondheim, Norway. Maarten Broekmans who is CAM's sub-commission chair on building materials will serve as the chair of the scientific committee and editor in chief. The official congress website (www.icam2011.org)
First circular available here
ICAM will also host pre-congress workshops.
- The Workshop organized by CAM in Brisbane, Australia during the International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM) meeting was a success. Following the meeting, a steering committee was created to oversee the follow-up activities. Details on the workshop and other related informations may be found within a document titled "workshop" on the Dogan Paktunc's website pages. "Workshop notes and findings "
- Henrique Kahn, Secretary of the CAM, has decided to resign from his position. He was a CAM officer since the 14th of August, 1993. All the IMA persons, and more especially the IMA Council, thank him a lot for its long investment in IMA scientific activities as a chair of the CAM.
- The ICAM meetings will occur every three years instead of four. This will allow an easier participation of the IMA-CAM in the IMA General Meetings and vice versa, some IMA commissions and Working Groups could be more involved in the ICAM meetings.
- The next ICAM meeting will occur in Trondheim, Norway, in 2011. Marteen Broekmans was elected Vice-President of the next ICAM meeting.
Next Business Meeting in Budapest, August 2010
See the CAM 2009 report for informations on CAM activities in 2009 and projects in 2010 and 2011.
2009
Informations on the workshop held during the ICAM meeting, in Brisbane, 2008 is available at the following address: "Workshop notes and findings "
See also the sub-commissions pages.
A Secretary of the CAM, Megan Becker, was named in June 2009 after proposal by the chair of CAM.
A new sub-commission on Metallurgy and Quantitative Mineralogy was accepted by the IMA council after proposal by the chair of CAM.
CAM has also established a new chair in geometallurgy which has been filled by Professor Dee Bradshaw from the Julius Krutschnitt Mineral Research Centre at the University of Queensland in Australia.
With the establishment of a new subcommission on geometallurgy, CAM plans to lead and coordinate the development of reference and standard materials for quantitative mineralogy and geometallurgy. With the appointment of two new members onto the committee who are both based in the southern hemisphere, CAM also intends to try and extend its influence and activities into Australia and South Africa where geometallurgy and process mineralogy are thriving in collaboration with the mining and mineral processing industries.
Dee Bradshaw and Megan Becker run a course in process mineralogy for the mining industry (23-27 November 2009) hosted by the University of Cape Town
Other: Dogan Paktunc organized and chaired a special session on the geochemical aspects of mine wastes during 24th International Applied Geochemistry Symposium (IAGS 2009) in Fredericton, Canada
October 2008:
Informations received on the 9th of October from Dogan Paktunc, chair of the CAM:
2008 - A handbook for CAM was prepared by Dogan Paktunc. It was accepted by the IMA council in Davos 2009.
2006 - 2007 Following the Kobe meeting, flyers will be prepared and distributed
at various conferences and meetings including Frontiers in Mineral
Sciences 2007, Goldschmidt 2007, EMABM 2007, ICAM 2008, IGC 2008
and ICAAR 2008.
Have a copy
of a poster on CAM activities presented in Kobe, 2006.
The objectives of CAM was revisited during the Kobe business
meeting (see the 2006
annual report  )
CAM officers are looking for
appointment of sub-commission chairs for the (1) mineral exploration
and mine development and (2) medical mineralogy and biomaterials
sub-commissions. They are also looking for funding the CAM website.
Publication in Elements in 2005, V1-5: From
the Chairman of the Commission on Applied Mineralogy, Richard
Hagni
Applied
Mineralogy : Present and Past |
