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October 2008:
Informations received on the 9th of October from Dogan Paktunc, chair of the CAM:
- 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.
2008 - A handbook for CAM was prepared by Dogan Paktunc. It is actually under discussion within the IMA council.
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
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