Dear all:

Below is the running programme for the forthcoming Mineral Deposits Studies
Group -MinSoc Applied Mineralogy Group meeting to be held at Burlington
House London on the 22nd-23rd October 2001.

Further registration details can be found at: http://www.minersoc.org/ on
the meetings page.  Alternatively contact Dr Clive Rice via the following
email address: [log in to unmask] 

IT IS STILL NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER !

22nd October
10.00 - 10.50   Registration and Coffee
10.50 - 11.00   Welcome address
11.00 - 11.40   KEYNOTE : Charles Curtis.  Manchester. The aqueous
geochemistry of metals in the supergene environment: strengths and
weaknesses in our understanding of speciation and process 
11.40 - 12.00   Polya, D A, Lythgoe, P R, Nimfopoulos, M K, Gault, A G,
Abou-Shakra, F, Brydie, J R, and Michailidis, K M: IC-ICP-MS and
IC-ICP-HEX-MS determination of arsenic speciation in surface and
groundwaters: preservation and analytical issues
12.00 - 12.20   Gault, A G and Polya, D A: Processes controlling the
species-dependent dispersion of arsenic in a temperate weathering
environment: A case study
12.20 - 12.40   Moles, N, Betz, Silke and McCready, A: Metal provenance and
speciation in contaminated stream, canal and estuarine sediments at
Newtownards, Northern Ireland
12.40 - 13.00   Discussion
13.00 - 14.00   Lunch
14.00 - 14.40   KEYNOTE : Andrew Meharg.  Aberdeen. Pollutant bioavailability
in soils; from molecular interactions to landscapes'.
14.40 - 15.00   Altinay, A and Morton, J D: Microbiological influences on
original mineral concentration and metalliferous variance in a mineralized
Proterozoic black shale host rock and stock-work system, a Bull River Mine
Prospect, B C, Canada
16.00 - 16.20   Davies, Nicola A, Hodson, Mark E, and Black Stuart: Earthworms
as indicators of the potential for use of bonemeal for the remediation of
metal contaminated land
16.20 - 16.40   Dolgopolova A, Seltmann R, Stanley C., Weiss, D, Raimbault, L,
Aksyuk, A M, Zaraisky, G P, Ginsburg, L N, Mayorova, O, Romanovsky, G &
Shatov, V.: Complex petrological, geochemical and bio-ecological studies of
the abandoned Orlovka tantalum deposit, East Transbaikalia, Russia:
implications for environmental pollution
16.40 - 17.00   Discussion
17.00 - 17.20   Tea
17.20 - 17.40   De Vos, E, Edwards, S J and McDonald I: The behaviour of
anthropogenic platinum group elements in the weathering environment
17.40 - 18.00   Poster introductions
18.00 - 19.00   Posters and drinks
19.00           Dinner

Poster presentations:

Belogub, Helen  and  NovoselovConstantin        The supergene alteration of blind
massive sulphide ore bodies of South Urals      Poster
Arnold, Rebecca E, Davies, Nicola A, Hodson, Mark E, Black, Stuart
Preliminary investigations into the toxicity of copper to eisenia fetida by
means of the OECD acute toxicity test   Poster
Bend, Stephen L and Morton, J D "Microbiological links with oil shale
origins in creation and ongoing changes of a metalliferous deposit in a
PreCambrian organic black shale formation, B C Canada   Poster
Brydie, J R and Polya, D A      Metal dispersion in sediments and waters of the
River Conwy draining the Llanrwst Mining Field, North Wales     Poster
Buckby, T, Hodson, M E, Black, S, and Coleman, M L      Leaching characteristics
of historical mine waste from the Rio Tinto, S W Spain  Poster
Chopin, E I B, Black, S, Hodson, M E, Coleman, M L, Alloway, B J        Two
examples of mining impact using surface soils and plants: Tharsis and Rio
Tinto (SW Spain)        Poster
Davies, Nicola A, Hodson, Mark E, and Black, Stuart     Effect of mineralogical
form on apparent lead toxicity to earthworms    Poster
Davies, Nicola A, Hodson, Mark E, Black, Stuart The influence of time on
lead toxicity and bioaccumulation determined by the OECD earthworm toxicity
test    Poster
Herrington, Richard, Gleeson, Sarah, Carlos Alberto Velásquez Zuleta, Gordon
Koll    Mineralogical evidence for the controls to the origin of the Cerro
Matoso Nickel Laterite deposit Colombia Poster
Hopgood, Michael, and Alloway, Brian    Targeted metal mobilisation for
phytoextraction purposes in a calcareous, urban soil    Poster
Romero, Antonia, Gonzalez, Isabel, Galan, Emilio, and Fernandez-Caliani,
Juan Carlos     Environmental study of waste dumps at the Pena de Hierro Mine
(Iberian Pyrite Belt, S W Spain)        Poster
Stephens, S R, Alloway, B J, Parker, A, Carter, J E, and Hodson, ME     Changes
in the associations of metals in dredged canal sediment on drying and
oxidation       Poster
Trueman, E, Black, S, Read, D, and Hodson, M    Geochemical controls on the
availability of depleted uranium in soils       Poster
Uwins, P J R and Morton, J D    "Nano- and Micro-biological presence and
mineralogical inferences in Veins and Mineralized host rocks at Bull River,
British Columbia"       Poster



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Dr Richard Herrington
Department of Mineralogy
The Natural History Museum
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United Kingdom
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