Sustainability workshop

Vancouver-based consultants Anthony Hodge and Ian Thomson will moderate a workshop dubbed “Seven Questions to Sustainability” on March 13 at Metro Hall in downtown Toronto.

As the heads of the their respective consulting firms, Anthony Hodge Consultants and On Common Ground, Hodge and Thomson helped develop a 2-year initiative to determine how the international mining industry can contribute to sustainable development.

The cost of the workshop is $130. It is being held in conjunction with a meeting of the International Sustainability Indicators Network.

For more information, call (978) 975-1939 or visit www.sustainabilityindicators.org

Teck’s Thompson in Kamloops

John Thompson, chief geoscientist with Teck Cominco, will outline what major mining companies want from government, in a talk at the Kamloops Exploration Conference.

The event, slated for April 15-16 at the Best Western Towne Lodge in Kamloops, B.C., is being organized by the Kamloops Exploration Group.

Chief attractions include a tradeshow, a core shack, workshops, a field trip, and a hockey game.

For more information, contact Eco Tech Laboratory at (250) 573-5700 or visit www.keg.bc.ca.

Economic analysis in Golden

About 19,000 people have attended 800 presentations of a 5-day course on discounted cashflow concepts. The next presentation is slated for Golden, Colo., on July 21-25.

The course looks at the economic analysis of income-producing and service-producing investments using discounted cashflow analysis and measures.

The course is based on the book Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods, written by two professors of the Colorado School of Mines.

The fee for the course is US$1,675, which covers tuition and a set of textbooks.

For more information, call (303) 273-3321 or e-mail space@mines.edu

Greek geologists convene

Several field trips to metallogenic provinces of Greece are planned as part of the seventh biennial meeting of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA), slated for Aug. 24-28 in Athens.

The society is calling for papers on the theme of mineral exploration and development.

Organizers of the event include the Greek Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration, Athens Technical University, the University of Thessaloniky, and the Geological Society of Greece.

For more information, e-mail Demetrios Eliopoulos at eliopoulos@igme.gr.

Congress heads to Acapulco

Expo2003, the bi-annual congress of Mexican geologists, mining engineers and metallurgists, is slated for Oct. 23-25 in Acapulco.

The event will feature about 80 technical papers on such topics as exploration trends and extraction techniques for epithermal silver and gold deposits.

About 4,000 delegates are expected to attend, as well as 400 exhibitors, mainly from Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. The Canadian Association of Mining Equipment and Services for Export will host a Canadian pavilion.

For more information, e-mail Cristina Dunn at dunn@camese.org.

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