Dear Colleagues: Since 1996, the SEG Mining & Geothermal Committee (M&GC) has focused on organizing a mining geophysical theme for the SEG meetings on alternate years. After three such very successful events (we now term these "Mining Summits"); Denver '96, New Orleans '98 and Calgary '00, planning is well underway for "Mining Summit 2002" to be held as part of the 72nd annual SEG meeting in Salt Lake City next October (SLC_2002).
A critical phase in the overall schedule for Salt Lake has started, with the SEG having formally started their "CALL FOR PAPERS" (see http://meeting.seg.org/). While the submission window is somewhat longer than traditional, running until April 10th, it is vital for those of you who are considering submitting a paper to get your own personal schedule in place. The M&GC is working to organize the major building blocks for the Mining Summit; these are outlined below, with the Calgary 2000 events shown in brackets. -Short Courses (Geophysical Inversion, Airborne EM) -Focused Technical Sessions (Case Studies, New Technology, Advances in EM, Mine Scale Exploration) -Special Sessions (New Developments in AEM, Janus-Status of the Industry) -Mining Luncheon (Tom Eadie-Pasminco) -Workshops (Ore Deposits Seminar) -Enhanced Exhibitor Presence (organized by Geosoft) For SLC_2002, the following are the agenda/themes that the M&GC is working to development into a world class program: Short Courses: MT, Visualization for Mining Geophysics, Aeromagnetics Interpretation Focused Technical Sessions: South American exploration (both Cordilleran & Shield Areas), Gold (Great Basin and Cordilleran) Case Studies: Diamonds, PGEs/Nickel, Zinc, Brownfields New Technology: CEMI, airborne gravity gradiometry, processing, hardware Special Sessions: Geophysics in the mining value chain; e_biz in geophysics; success/failures & the way forward Mining Luncheon: Eat & think at the same time & enjoy a Polygamy Lager-unique to Utah! Workshops: Ore Deposit Seminar II Field Trips: Bingham, Carlin, Stillwater The M&GC will be contacting many of you shortly to see if you can become involved in making SLC_2002 as successful as the past three Mining Summits. If you can help by submitting a paper, the time to act is NOW. If you can help the M&GC in reviewing papers, your assistance will be needed post-April 10th. Most important for all of you is to begin thinking about attending the Mining Summit next October; as Woody Allen is purported to have said, "90% of success is showing up..." On behalf of the Mining & Geothermal Committee... Ken Witherly-Chair Dick West-Vice Chair Best regards for the holiday season! _______________________________________________________ List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
