Dear Colleague: Calgary is less than two weeks away! The SEG's web site www.seg.org has had for some time a full list of all the technical events; talks, short courses and workshops that will be offered. As well all needed ancillary information about hotels, lunches and spouse programs is available to review and act upon as need be. What I wanted to do with this final message is highlight some of the special or last minute events that happen during the week on a day by day basis. Prof Ken Duckworth, has kindly offered to arrange visits to the University of Calgary Geophysics Lab for any interested visitors. Those wanting more information can either get a preview of the lab at: http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~duckwrth/kd.html or contact Professor Duckworth directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by phone at 403 220 7375. Monday August 7th: -SEG Awards: As flagged earlier, there will be three awards given at the Monday AM Presidential Session that honor significant contributions made to the mining industry; to Dr Stan Ward; the Maurice Ewing Award (the SEG's highest honor), to Dr. Peter Annan; Honorary Membership, and the University of Toronto Geophysics Group of the Physics Department; the Distinguished Achievement Award. Be there if you can! -SEG Mining and Geothermal General Meeting: Time: 5:30pm - 8:00pm Venue: Stampede Park; Room: Rotary House Get to hear what the Committee has been up to while you have some free food and beer! As Special Feature in conjunction with IAGSA, Malcolm Imray (SGL) will wrap up the session with a talk entitled: "Aviation Safety issues in Airborne Geophysics - Twin engine versus single engine" Wednesday August 9th: -Mining Lunch: 11:30-1:30; Guest Speaker: Mr Tom Eadie; GM Exploration Pasminco; Talk entitled :"Budgets, Success, Innovation & Cooperation - A Lunchtime Perspective on Mining Exploration" -JANUS Session: 1:30PM-5PM; A Special Session for the Turing of the Millennium: "Where from and Where to for Mining Geophysics?" Chaired by Mr Joe Inman; Kennecott. The session will be comprised of two parts; to start a series of distinguished speakers will set the stage, followed by a panel discussion Opening Speakers: Norm Paterson � The Impact of Geophysics on Minefinding in the 20th Century, (presenter: Steve Reford) Ken Witherly - Competitive Advantage Through Technology; a Historical Review and Predictions for the Future Brian Spies � Future Technology Seigel, Corrans, Gingerich & Kostlin � Explore or Acquire? The Dilemma, (presenter: Eddie Kostlin) -Special Last Minute Feature!! Dr Mark Dransfield, BHP Minerals will give us an update on BHP's new airborne gravity gradiometer system. This will be immediately following the finish of the JANUS session (same venue @ 5PM) -Mining and Geothermal Committee Meeting: 5:30pm - 7:30pm Venue: Stampede Park Room: Quarterhorse Room If you want to come out and help you and your profession be all that it can be, plan to attend! Time: Al King is offering wooden nickels for the first 10 to arrive! Thursday August 10th. -Special Session on Airborne EM: Catch the Latest Developments in AEM; Co-chaired by P Diorio (BHP) and Chris Vaughan (CGI) 1:30 Introduction 1:35 The Reid Mahaffy test site R. Irvine ----------------- Helicopter Platforms ----------- 1:40 The HoistEM System; A. Foley, P.Eaton, G.Boyd 2:10 AEROTEM: System Characteristics and field results; N. Paterson, W.Boyko, K.Kwan 2:40 The THEM system; B. Krammer, C Vaughan 3:10 Designing (Digital) HEM for Maximum Data Quality; by G. Hodges Fugro Airborne Surveys,Toronto. ----------------- Fixed Wing Platforms ---------- 3:30 An introduction to the MEGATEM system: a comparison with GEOTEM data over the Reid-Mahaffy test site, by R. Smith Fugro Airborne Surveys, Ottawa. 3:50 The TEMPEST system by R. Lane, Fugro Airborne Surveys,Perth. 4:20 The SPECTREM system ; E. Kostlin, T.Hagg, 4:50 Discussion 5:00 Close Friday August 11th: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm -Mining Workshop; Chaired by Dick West (BHP) "Ore Deposits Seminar" Dick has summarized this wrap-up highlight of Calgary as follows: "...at this workshop, 10 of your peers from various mineral exploration and exploration contract/consulting companies will present investigations of the discovery of Porphyry Copper and Unconformity Uranium deposits with an emphasis on the development of exploration models based on physical property measurements of the ore and host. Discussions on the effectiveness of the geophysical models in the discovery process and how the models were modified as the exploration process matured. The learnings gained from the evaluation will aid exploration efforts in other deposits styles. Jeremy Richards, a professor of economic geology at the University of Alberta and Mary Doherty a leading mineral geochemist will be part of the panel discussions and will help keep the focus on geologic reality and a multi-disciplinary approach. I believe this workshop will provide explorers in the mineral industry with a good sampling of current exploration models for Porphyry Copper and Unconformity Uranium ore deposits and will also expand the understanding and the importance of the role of physical property measurements in the exploration process." Contact Dick @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] for any further information. Hope to see you there! Regards Ken Witherly Condor Consulting, Inc. St. 206, 4860 Robb Street Wheat Ridge CO 80033 Tel: 303-423-8475 Fax: 303-423-9729 www.condorconsult.com _______________________________________________________ List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
