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Sustainable Development in the Minerals Industry – 5th Conference

The Call for Papers for the 5th SDIMI Conference has been posted.

The Institute of Mining Engineering I of the RWTH Aachen University is pleased to announce:
Sustainable Development in the Minerals Industry From Primary Production to Sustainable Supply Chains on June 14 – 17, 2011 in Aachen, Germany under the framework of Aachen International Mining Symposia (AIMS)

SDIMI 2011 is the fifth in a series of international conferences dedicated to the issue of sustainable development in the minerals industry world wide.

This conference series is jointly organized by RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Virginia Tech University, USA, and the Technical University of Crete, Greece.

The purpose of the SDIMI conference series is best captured in the “Milos Declaration”, that has been adopted at the first SDIMI conference held on the island of Milos, Greece, in the year 2003 and which has been endorsed by leading global professional and scientific organizations active in the sector.

Please check it out:
http://www.aims.rwth-aachen.de/SDIMI2011/

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Resource curse

The Fraser Institute’s new global centre for mining studies has produced an important new paper on the “resource curse”. It shows that the vast majority of nations benefit from mining activities and lays out the conditions for increasing mining benefits for all nations. The paper is available for free download at:

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/newsandevents/news/6982.aspx

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Canadian mining companies abroad

The podcast below gives a timely update on the debate about the role of Canadian mining companies abroad:

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2009/200910/20091016.html

a new NGO campaign:

http://www.drc.moonfruit.org/

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October 16th SWG meeting

SWG meeting notice

The next SWG Meeting is going to be held on friday, October 16th, from 11 am-12 pm in FF 519W (conference room).

Agenda for the meeting as follows,

1. Green bag lunch update on speaker, venue, etc.
2. SWG participation in the Mining and Sustainability BC seminar, Nov 19th http://mining.bc.ca/?p2=/modules/evcalendar/view.jsp&eventId=79
3. Future project, including: developing a sustainability course…

Please reserve this time in your calendar.

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