Short Courses
Short Course 1
Ore Microscopy for SEM Microscopists
The presenter:
Dr Ivan Reynolds, Principal Adviser – Mineralogy, Rio Tinto Technolgy and Innovation.
Email: Ivan.Reynolds@riotinto.com
Date: Saturday 6th September 2008
Time: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm
Location: Berkley’s on Ann, Rendezvous Hotel Brisbane, 55 Ann Street,
Brisbane Qld 4000
Cost: A$350 per person (incl. GST)
Includes: Lecture notes, lunch and morning and afternoon tea. This course is subject to reaching a minimum number of 15 participants by 30th July 2008. Maximum 30 participants.
Short Course 2
Quantitative Mineralogy Workshop
The presenter:
Dr Dogan Paktunc, Research Scientist, CANMET Mining and Metallurgical Processing, Canada.
Email: dpaktunc@NRCan.gc.ca
Date: Saturday 6th September 2008
Time: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm
Location: Berkley’s on Ann, Rendezvous Hotel Brisbane, 55 Ann Street,
Brisbane Qld 4000.
Cost: A$140 per person, covering morning and afternoon refreshments, lunch and AusIMM overhead.
Minimum 25, maximum 50 participants (Please note the short course may be cancelled if the minimum is not reached).
Short Courses 3A & 3B – extended to include morning short course.
MLA – An Introduction
The presenter:
Kurt Moeller, Customer Support Manager, JKTech.
Email: k.moeller@jktech.com.au
Date: Saturday 6th September 2008
Short Course 3A: 9.00 am – 12.00 noon
Short Course 3B: 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Location: JK Mineral Research Centre – MLA, Isles Road, Indooroopilly, QLD 4068.
Cost: Free of charge.
Includes: The workshop informal hands-on taught with PowerPoint projection slides along side practical demonstrations using the MLA instrument in order to facilitate understanding of the topic. Participants are invited to bring laptops so they can follow and practice data presentation exercises using MLA software on their own computers. Each participant will receive a printed copy of the workshop notes as well as a CD containing example data and images along with the MLA data presentation software.
Number of participants per short course: 3 (min) – 12 (max).
Short Course 4
Introduction to mineralogical image analysis: from 2D to 3D
The presenter:
Eric PIRARD, Professor of Mineral Resources Characterisation, University of Liège and Head of the GeMMe – Minerals Engineering, Materials and Environment – Department.
Email: eric.pirard@ulg.ac.be
Date: Sunday 7th September 2008
Time: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm
Location: Berkley’s on Ann, Rendezvous Hotel Brisbane, 55 Ann Street, Brisbane Qld 4000.
Cost: A$400 per person (incl. GST)
Includes: The course will be taught with permanent video-projection in order to facilitate understanding of the imaging operations. The participants will receive a complete copy of the PowerPoint lecture notes. Lunch and morning and afternoon tea included.
This course is subject to reaching a minimum number of 12 participants by 30th July 2008. Maximum 30 participants.
Short Course 5
Deleterious AAR in Concrete: Reaction Basics, Damage Diagnosis, Aggregate Assessment, Expansion Testing, and Discrepancies.
The presenters:
Maarten A.T.M. Broekmans, MSc, PhD.
Email: maarten.broekmans@ngu.no
Kevin J. Folliard, Ph.D., FACI.
Email: folliard@mail.utexas.edu
Date: Sunday 7th September 2008
Time: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm
Location: Berkley’s on Ann, Rendezvous Hotel Brisbane, 55 Ann Street, Brisbane Qld 4000.
Cost: A$400 per person (incl. GST)
Includes: The course will be taught with PowerPoint slides, and plane and thin sections with a number of aggregates will be shown. Participants will receive a copy of the lecture notes and the 13th ICAAR proceedings (June 2008). Lunch and morning and afternoon tea included.
Short Course 6
Applied Mineralogy – An Introduction to Analytical Methods and Applications
The presenters:
Joe Zhou, Manager Mineralogy Consulting, JKTech Pty Ltd.
Email: j.zhou@jktech.com.au
In this workshop Joe will be assisted by experts in analytical methods and applied mineralogy applications, including Louis Cabri, David Steele, and Kevin Pietersen.
Date: Sunday 7th September 2008
Time: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Location: JK Mineral Research Centre, Isles Road, Indooroopilly, QLD 4068.
Cost: A$125 per person (incl. GST)
Includes: Presentation notes, morning and afternoon tea, lunch, and transport to and from the venue for participants staying in central Brisbane city accommodation. The workshop morning sessions will be presented using PowerPoint slides. Afternoon demonstrations will be informal. Number of participants: 10 (min) – 30 (max). Please note the workshop may be cancelled if the minimum number of participants is not achieved.
Short Course 7
An Introduction to QEMSCAN and applications of Automated Mineralogy
The presenters:
Dr Alan Butcher, Chief Scientist, Intellection
http://www.intellectioncorp.com/alan_butcher.html
Paul Gottlieb, Chief Technology Officer, Intellection http://www.intellectioncorp.com/paul_gottlieb.html
Date: Sunday 7th September 2008
Time: 12.00 – 4.00 pm
Location: Intellection Customer Centre, 18 Mayneview St, Milton, QLD 4064.
Cost: Free of charge.
Includes: This workshop is designed to provide participants with a basic understanding of the concept of automated mineralogy with its applications to the mining industry, and new and emerging fields. The course will focus on the QEMSCAN method, and will start at sample preparation through to QEMSCAN analysis, to interpretation and finally implementation and application of results.
This short course will use PowerPoint, with some tutorial style hands on sessions, and other system based examples throughout. The course will be run at the Intellection Customer Centre with immediate access to all necessary equipment.
Number of participants: This course requires a minumum of 10 participants.
Should interest be sufficent, additional courses could be scheduled for the morning of Sunday 7 September.
For further information please contact:
Event Management
Alison M McKenzie, Manager, Conferences & Events
The AusIMM, PO Box 660, Carlton South, Victoria Australia 3053
Telephone: +61 3 9658 6123
Facsimile: +61 3 9662 3662
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