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WORKING GROUP ON INCLUSIONS IN MINERALS (WGIM)

Officers
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IMA corresponding member


Members list (2004)
Scientific Activities

Annual reports, minutes &
Communication Plan

Objectives
The objectives of WGIM is to bring mineral inclusion researchers together for scientific exchanges, promoting technological awareness and technology development in mineral inclusion researches, and therefore to support researches in related fields including but not limited to mineralogy, petrology, mineral deposit study, geochemistry, astrochemistry, tectonic geology, and petroleum geology, etc.

The WGIM was instituted in July 1986 during the 14th General Meeting of the IMA at Stanford, California, USA.See the Historical development of WGIM by Zaolin Li (up to 2003)


News from the WGIM officers (26/2/2010)
In 2010, WGIM will participate to :
1) The IMA General meeting, where WGIM is sponsoring the Session D45 "Fluid in the Earth"
2) 3rd Asian Conference on Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI III).
This Conference is organizing in the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Novosibirsk, Russia.
For additional information contact Sergey Smirnov


New WGIM officers were elected during the Budapest general Meeting of IMA (see below and the 2010 4 year report prepared by the outgoing chair Serguey Z. Smirnov)

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Officers

Chairman: Pei NI
Department of earth sciences
Nanjing University
Nanjing 210093, China
e-mail Pei Ni

Elected in Kobe, 2006
as Secretary
Elected in Budapest, 2010 as President
pdf

Vice-Chairman: Fanus Viljoen
Research Chair of Geometallurgy
Department of Geology

University of Johannesburg,
PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006
Kingsway & University (APK campus)
Johannesburg, South Africa

e-mail Fanus Viljoen
Elected in Budapest, 2010

Secretary: Ronald Bakker
University of Leoben Mineralogy and Petrology Group Peter Tunner str. 5 A8700 Leoben, AUSTRIA
e-mail Ronald Bakker
Elected in Budapest, 2010 pdf

IMA corresponding member

Ekkehart Tillmanns

The WGIM has working to establish the Asian Current Research on Fluid Inclusions (ACROFI).
ACROFI is a parallel of ECROFI and PACROFI. The first meeting of ACROFI occured in May 2006 (26-28) in Nanjing.

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