ICAM 2008 : 9th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy, 8-10 September 2008, Brisbane, Australia

An initiative of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, CSIRO and JKTech. Website : http://www.icam2008.com/

The Congress will cover applied mineralogy in the broadest sense and will be an excellent opportunity for the presentation of the latest basic and applied research results and state-of-the-art overviews by international specialists.
Applied mineralogy embraces numerous applications of mineralogy in the mineral, metallurgical, chemical and materials industries, as well as in waste recycling, environmental assessment and medicine. As an interdisciplinary field, it involves characterisation of a wide variety of crystalline materials including ores, mineral concentrates, engineering materials, biomaterials and industrial residues.
The main Congress themes will include: Advanced materials Analytical techniques and automated instrumentation Applied mineralogy in precious metals Biominerals and biomaterials Cement and construction materials Ceramics and glasses Cultural heritage Don Hausen Environmental and medical mineralogy Geometallurgy and process mineralogy Industrial minerals, including gems Mineral exploration Oil reservoirs Ore mineralogyCongress Chair: Dr Ying Gu, JKMRC, Brisbane Australia

Key submission dates: Abstracts submitted by the 16th of November 2007
Notification of acceptance in January 2008
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words (in English) and must address the themes of the ICAM Congress.
Abstracts should be submitted to: Kristy Pocock, Senior Publications Coordinator, The AusIMM, PO Box 660, Carlton South, Victoria, 3053, AustraliaTelephone: + 61 3 9662 3166, Facsimile: + 61 3 9662 3662
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Click here to view the call for papers: http://www.icam2008.com/papers.asp

(Information provided on the 23th of October, 2007)

Announcement of a short course (from D. Paktunk - 19 October 2007):
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/

CAM will be participating in RILEM's (Réunion Internationale des Laboratoires et Experts des Matériaux, Systèmes de Constructions et Ouvrages) technical committee on Alkali-aggregate Reactions in Concrete Structures. This committee deals with the assessment and appraisal of existing alkali-silica reactivity (ASR) in concrete structures.

IMA-CAM short course: Microscopía Cuantitativa y control de procesos minerals" is being organized by Eric Pirard. It will be held in 2008 (24-28 March) at Universidad Catolica del Peru in Lima, Peru and feature an overview of optical and electron microscopy, image analysis and case studies in process mineralogy. The short course will be thought in Spanish.