Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Mineral resources in a fast growing global economy - are there any natural limits?
Coordinator: Pär Weihed, Luleå University of Technology (Sweden)

The world’s mineral resources have been said to be a limit to growth. At present, metal prices are high and new resources of minerals are explored and exploited, using new technologies. Estimates of reserves always seem to be too low. The symposium looks closely at some of mineral resources in particular and assesses the challenges facing the mining industry and therefore important parts of society, in the years to come. China, as one of the largest and fastest growing economies, presents its views on the resource situation.
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Geoscience program

08:30-08:35    Introduction  
                      Pierre Heeroma/Pär Weihed

08:35-09:00    Advances in Genetic Understanding of Sediment Hosted Base Metal and
                      Gold Deposits
                      Ross Large 
                      ARC Centre of Excellence, CODES (Australia)

09:00-09:30    Tomorrow's gold resources: Where will we find them?
                      Rich Goldfarb 
                      United States Geological Survey (USA)

09:30-10:00    Rare earth elements: a new scope of mining for saving energy and 
                      environment
                      Yasushi Watanabe 
                      National Instistute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST (Japan)

10:00-10:30    Uranium: The world's energy mineral  
                      Jamie McIntyre 
                      Cameco Corporation (USA)

10:30-11:00    Coffee  

11:00-11:30    Ocean floor mining  
                      Steve Scott 
                      University of Toronto (Canada)

14:15-14:45    Global assessment of undiscovered mineral resources: Opportunities and 
                      challenges  
                      Michael L. Zientek 
                      United States Geological Survey (USA)

12:00-13:00    Lunch  

StatoilHydro lecture

13:00-13:45    The exhaustion of mineral resources - a truism or a state 
                      of mind?    
                      Neil Williams 
                      Geoscience (Australia)

Societal program

14:00-14:30    The Geology and Mineral Resources of China  
                      Meng Xianlai 
                      The Ministry of Land and Resources of China (China)

14:30-15:00    The metal market: A new corporate landscape emerging  
                      Magnus Eriksson 
                      Raw Materials Group (Sweden)

15:00-15:30    Metals for a sustainable modern society  
                      Lennart Evrell 
                      Boliden AB (Sweden)

15:30-16:00    Coffee  

16:00-16:30    Challenges of the European Mining Industry in the Years to Come  
                      Corina Hebestreit 
                      Euromines (Belgium)
                    
16:30-17:00    Commision Raw Materials Initiative 
                      Hans Sierd Pietersen
                      European Commission - DG Enterprise (Belgium)
                        
17:00-18:00    Panel debate

18:00              Press conference