On March 18, members of the Canadian diamond industry will organize “Diamond Day on the Hill,” a campaign designed to underscore to the economic and social importance of diamond mining in this country.
Diamond miners, cutters, polishers and jewelers will participate.
Canada’s diamond production will be the third largest in the world by value.
The event will close with “Diamonds and Ice,” a reception at the Chteau Laurier hotel, in downtown Ottawa, for members of parliament, senators, officials and other invited guests. The reception will include displays of rough and polished diamonds, as well as Canadian diamond jewelry.
For more information, contact Gray Picco at (613) 238-2090, ext. 356.
Kimberlite exploration in Nunavut and Finland will be among the topics discussed at the Calgary Mining Forum, to be held April 8-13 at that city’s Ramada Hotel.
Hosted by the Alberta Geological Survey, the event will also feature presentations on platinum group elements in northern Quebec, gold projects in Ontario’s Red Lake camp, and diamond potential in Alberta.
The forum is being organized by the Calgary Mineral Exploration Group. For more information, visit www.meg.calgary.ab.ca
A short course on alkaline copper-gold porphyries and iron-oxide copper-gold deposits will take place May 24-25 at the Sheraton Wall Centre in Vancouver, B.C.
The course will explore the similarities and differences of the two geological settings.
Among the presenters will be Murray Hitzman of the Colorado School of Mines and Mark Barton of the University of Colorado.
The course will be part of the joint annual meeting of the Geological Association of Canada, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, and the Society of Economic Geologists, slated for May 24-28 in Vancouver. The cost is $350, or $175 for students.
For more information, visit www.vancouver2003.com
The organizers of Aimex 2003 promise to broaden the scope of one of the largest mining conferences in the Asia-Pacific region. The event is slated for Sept. 9-12 in Sydney, Australia.
“Aimex 2003 will provide the mining industry with a range of solutions and equipment for all environments, from longwall mines through to quarrying,” says Dan Londero, managing director of Reid Exhibitions.
In the past the event has been accused of focusing too much on coal; this year, however, equal attention will be given to hard rock, open-pit and metalliferous mining.
For more information, e-mail Alison Stieven-Taylor at realityillusion@ozemail.com.au
The Canadian Association of Mining Equipment and Services for Export (CAMESE) has reserved exhibition space at Exposibram, a conference slated for Sept. 23-26 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
The bi-annual event is being organized by the Brazilian Mining Institute and will be held in the Belo Horizonte Exhibition Pavilion, which has 8,000 sq. metres of space.
Brazil’s mining output is about half that of Canada, and the country expects to attract US$35 billion in mining-related investment over the next 20 years.
Exposibram is expected to draw 15,000 visitors. For more information, e-mail dunn@camese.org
In the story “Brisas gets regulatory nod” (T.N.M., March 3/03), a grade in grams per tonne was incorrectly identified as “oz. per tonne.”
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