On behalf of the Organising Committee of PACRIM 2008, I invite you to join your colleagues and participate in PACRIM 2008 being held at Conrad Jupiters on the Gold Coast, Queensland, 24 – 26 November 2008.
PACRIM 2008, the premier AusIMM geological conference on the Pacific Rim, will bring together the most recent advances in fundamental academic research, regional surveys by government agencies and industry’s latest discoveries to showcase the importance of the Pacific Rim for global mineral wealth.
From mountain peaks to active hydrothermal vents in the seafloor, the Pacific Rim (PACRIM) is a major factory for mineral deposits. This region, surrounding the Pacific Ocean, encompasses Paleozoic to Present convergent plate margins where subduction and associated magmatism created a dynamic, rapidly changeng geological environment leading to the formation of world-class porphyry, skarn, vein-style and epithermal mineralisation. Unique climatic and tectonic conditions exposed mountain belts, island-arcs and ophiolites to surface processes, blanketing the Pacific Rim with supergene ore deposits.
PACRIM 2008 is a must for any geologist, geophysicist, or geochemist exploring in the Pacific Rim or interested in mineralisation processes in active tectonic margins. Special sessions on the Northwest Pacific, North America, the Andean Region and Central America, Australia and New Zealand and the SW Pacific provide a forum for researchers and exploration professionals to present the state-of-the-art in ore deposits research in their regions.
PACRIM 2008 will also offer a series of field workshops (Porphyry-related ore deposits of the Lachlan Fold Belt New South Wales and Drummond Basin Epithermal), creating a unique opportunity for researchers and exploration professionals to share, in the field, their experiences on a variety of topics, ranging from porphyry deposits and epithermal systems.
These field workshops will also provide an ideal environment for introducing new exploration professionals to the body of knowledge and experience acquired by academic institutions, government organisations and industry through decades of research in the Pacific Rim.
See you on the Gold Coast in November!
Prof Paulo Vasconcelos
Head of Earth Sciences, The University of Queensland
Event Management – The AusIMM
Miriam Way, Director of Conferences & Events
Alison M McKenzie, Manager, Conferences & Events
Kristy Pocock, Manager, Publications
The AusIMM, PO Box 660, Carlton South, Victoria Australia 3053
Telephone: +61 3 9658 6123
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Email: alisonm@ausimm.com.au
