1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 From: Simon Jowitt <simon.jowitt@xxxxxxxx> 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 Hi All, Apologies for cross-posting. We would like to invite you to consider submitting an abstract to a session focused on the economics of ore deposits at the 15th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA 2019 <https://www.sga2019glasgow.com/>), which will be held at the University of Glasgow from 27â??30 August 2019: *Economics of ore deposits* *Keynote*: John Thompson *Convenors*: *Simon Jowitt, Gavin Mudd, Nedal Nassar* The mining industry faces a number of critical challenges both now and in the future beyond those typically considered by geologists. In particular, this session will explore some of these challenges and focuses on the economics of ore deposits, including what makes a mineral deposit economic beyond grade and tonnage, the social and environmental challenges faced by future brownfield and greenfield mining, long term trends in resource use, production, and future trends in demands for metals and minerals, and estimates of global metal resources and the controls on the conversion of resources to reserves to production. We also invite submissions on research into what makes world-class deposits truly world class (i.e., not just size alone), the potential challenges of increasing by-product recovery from existing and future mineral resources, including opportunities for generating wealth from e.g. mine waste (especially tailings), as well as the human resources required by the minerals industry to meet these current and future challenges. Abstract submission is currently open on the SGA 2019 website <https://www.sga2019glasgow.com/abstract> and the abstract deadline is 11th March 2019. Hope to see you in August; if you have any questions please contact me and I'll do my best to answer any queries for you. Cheers, Simon (on behalf of Gavin Mudd and Nedal Nassar) ============================================================== Volcano Listserv is a collaborative venture among Arizona State University (ASU), Portland State University (PSU), the Global Volcanism Program (GVP) of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and the International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI). ASU - http://www.asu.edu/ PSU - http://pdx.edu/ GVP - http://www.volcano.si.edu/ IAVCEI - http://www.iavcei.org/ To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxx. To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxx. Please do not send attachments. ============================================================== ------------------------------
