COMMISSION ON APPLIED MINERALOGY (CAM)

Strategy: IMA-CAM (http://www.appliedmin.org) was initiated around 1979, after the creation of the International Council for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM). The aims of IMA-CAM are to co-ordinate or arrange conferences, symposia, seminars, or meetings devoted to applied mineralogy, to serve as a liaison body to other organizations active in the field, and to encourage interaction between applied mineralogists, particularly focusing on the areas of process mineralogy, applied mineralogy of ceramics, cements and glasses, development and application of advanced materials, environmental mineralogy and health, analytical techniques, mineral surfaces and nanoparticles.

Since the ICAM meeting in Perth 1993, it was decided to hold ICAM meetings on a quadrennial schedule at exactly half-way between the IMA meetings. In addition, ICAM and IMA-CAM decided of jointly sponsoring sessions organized by one or the other at ICAM and IMA Meetings (see CAM history ).
The objectives of CAM was revisited during the Kobe business meeting (see the
2006 annual report ).

Announcement of a short course:
What :School on Synchrotron X-ray and IR Methods Focusing on Environmental Sciences
When: 21-23 January 2008
Where: Synchrotron Radiation Source ANKA, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Who: Institute for Synchrotron Radiation, supported by EU N2 Networking Activity (I3 Project IA-SFS) and European X-ray Spectrometry Association
Info: http://ankaweb.fzk.de/conferences/EUN2school/


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Officers

Chairman: Dogan PAKTUNC
Research Scientist
Mineralogy and Metallurgical Processing
CANMET Mining and Mineral Sciences Laboratories
555 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G1, Canada
Tel/tél: 613-947-7061
Fax/fax: 613-996-9673
e-mail Dogan Paktunk

Dogan Patunc webpage
Vice-Chairman: Eric PIRARD
Université de Liège
GEOMAC Géoressources Minérales, Sart Tilman B52
B-4000 LIEGE, Belgium
Tel.: +32-4-366.95.28
Fax: +32-4-366.95.20
e-mail Eric Pirard
5 sept. 2002
Secretary: Henrique KAHN
Lab. de Caracterização Technologica
Depto. Eng. de Minas da Epusp Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Cidade Universitária - Caixa Postal 61548, São Paulo, 05508, Brazil
e-mail Henrique Kahn
14 Aug. 1993
Past-Chairman: Richard D. HAGNI
Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Missouri-Rolla
27 Johnson Drive, Rolla, MO 65409-0410, USA.
Phone (1) 573-341-4657
FAX: (1) 573-341-6935
e-mail Rcihard Agni
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Sub-commissons

 

Sub-commission on Mineralogy Applied to Building Materials
Chair : Maarten A.T.M. BROEKMANS

Geological Survey of Norway
Department of Mineral Characterization
N-7491 TRONDHEIM, Norway
Phone: +47 7390 4152
Fax: +47 7392 1620
e-
mail:
Maarten A.T.M. Broekmans

(November 2006)

Sub-commission on Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Materials
Chair : Isabella MEMMI

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Università degli Studi di Sienna
Via Laterna, 8 - 53100 Siena, Italy
Tel: +39 0577-233931
Fax: +39 0577-233938
e-mail: Isabella Memmi

(November 2006)

Sub-commission on Advanced Ceramics and Glasses
Chair : Hans-Joachim KLEEBE

Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften
Fachgebiet Geomaterialwissenschaft
Technische Universitt Darmstadt
Schnittspahnstr. 9
D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany
Tel: +49 6151 16-4554
Telefax: +49 6151 16-4021
e-mail: Hans Joachim Kleebe

(November 2006)

IMA corresponding member

Marcello MELLINI
e-mail Marcello Mellini

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