The 3rd International Symposium of Elecromagnetic Processing of Materials, EMP2000, sponsored by the Iron and Steel Institue of Japan, will be held at the Nagoya Noh Theatre in Nagoya Japan.

Contact:
Ms. Mai Furuya, Symposium Secretariat
Japan Technology Information Service (JATIS)
Sogo-Kojimachi
No. 3 Building
1-6 Kojimachi
Chiyoda-Ku, Tokoyo, Japan, 102-0083
Phone: +011-81-3-3239-4804
Fax: +011-81-3-3239-4714

The workshop aims to enchance participants' understanding of risks in trade and project finance and the strengths and weaknesses of the various risk mitigation tools. The workshop will use two practical case studies, each incorporating features from real transactions.

The fourth annual U.S. - Mexico Border Conference is being held in an effort to provide a clearer and more educated understanding of the border region for decision- makers in Washington, D.C. This conference is an integeral part of the continuing NAFTA education program hosted by the US - Mexico Chamber of Commerce and by the El Pasco Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

With the extraordinary growth of trade due to NAFTA, this region faces significant callenges in: environment, education, health, security and economic development.

Contact:
El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Event Coordinator
2829 Montana
Suite B - 100
El Paso, Texas, USA, 79903
Fax: +1-915-566-9714
E-Mail: ephcc01@whc.net

The premier Conference for mining investment in Latin America and the Caribbean. Encourages dialogue between governments that "make the rules" and the businesses, private companies and financial and investment communities. Hundreds of senior level mining executives from all parts of the world, governmental lawmakers and ministers, property owners, bankers, institutional investors and mining analysts attend the Conference. It's the place for deal making and promoting dialogue between power players in Latin American markets and facilitating financing for worthwhile projects.

This year's session will explore:
• Innovative approaches to clean-up and reclamation
• Rebuilding mine-land soil for long-term planting success
• Techniques for improving the visual quality of mine- land reclamation
• Acid soils reclamation practices
• Water-quality management in mining and reclamation
• Successful integration of mining and reclamation
• Reclamation and closure planning
• Understanding reclamation bonding and release
• Reclamation insurance: a new and different approach

This two-day workshop is designed for those interested in developing their evalution skillls and inproving theiri ability to communicate within their corporate or government organization. You will learn about evaluation techniques commonly used in the minerals industry and be better able to relate to botton line values used in the technical decision-makeing process.

Instructor: Dr. Michael Doggett

Contact:
Jim Sadler, Engineering and Technology Programming Associate
APGEGS
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Phone: 1+-306-966-5547
E-Mail: Jim.Sadler@usask.ca

Canada's Premier Mining Health and Safety Event

Presentations from Ontario, the USA and Africa on the key health issues in mining.

Presentations from mining industry representatives,information exchange regarding inovative safety products.

Presentations on Supervisory Effectiveness, Ergonomic issues, Safety Auditing, Aggregate issues,Ground Control, research and development in Mining safety.

The LARGEST one-day conference in the world!

Contact:
Richard Radez, Conference Organizer
David A. Noyes

Phone: +1-800-285-1700
Fax: +1-317-634-1083
Toll Free: +1-800-285-1700
E-Mail: rradez@danoyes.com

Symposium of results from the 1995 - 2000 Nechako NATMAP mapping project in central British Columbia.

Environmental Impact Studies will cover:
• How are environmental studies conducted for large mining projects?
• How much of an impact is too much?
• What are baseline studies?
• What about heritage?

This session will give the public some answers to these questions. Time: 7 - 9 pm.

Contact:
Klondike Placer Miners' Association Town Hall
Gold Rush Inn
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

The symposium aims to promote investments by sharing information regarding Peru's impressive gold potential, as well as to discuss new advances in exploitation and gold recovery technologies.

Internationally distinguished professionals from the global mining industry will present lectures on a variety of topics, including: the location of new ore deposits, geology, new developments, technological innovations, metallurgic, environmental protection, financing and gold markets.

The event is directed to Peruvian and foreign executives, professionals, firms related to the mining industry, investors and general public interested in the present and future of the gold mining sector. Simultaneous interpretation will be available for all conferences (Spanish/English).

Parallely to the Conferences, booths will be set up in the Exhibition Area where products and services may be displayed and promoted during the Symposium. During the last Symposium over 130 domestic and foreign companies participated as exhibitors.

Contact:
CAMESE
Fax: 905 - 513 - 1834

indianminerals@mineralnet.co.uk

Minerals of the Indian Subcontinent, Emerging Opportunities

Featuring:
• Two-day conference programme
• Presentations from leading players in the industry
• Discussion on the current and future direction for minerals and markets in India
• Attendance from producers, traders, investors, and consumers of Indian minerals

Over 50 papers on Extravive Industry Geology

Covers industrial minerals and constructional materials

7 Field Excursions

Excellend CPD

Affordable due to generous sponsorship

Trade Exhibition

Attractive social programme.

McGill University Depratment of Mining and Meallurgical Engineering will be holding a professioan development seminar entiteld "Mineral Processing". The seminar leader is Professor Jim Finch: the fee is $1200 Canadian.

Contact:
Norma Procyshyn, Conference organizer
Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering
McGill University,
Frank Dawson Adams Buidings
3450 Univerisity Street
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2A7
Phone: +1-514-398-4383
Fax: +1-514-398-7099
E-Mail: norma@minmet.Ina.mcgill.ca

Schedule:
Octuber 15th, 1999.- Submission of Abstracts (500 words)
November 15th, 1999.- Notification de Authors
February 15th, 2000.- Submission of manuscripts
April 15th, 2000.- Early Registration
May 9-13th, 2000.- Conference

For details, please see http://www.expomin.cl and http://www.editec.cl

Contact:
Dr. Mario Sánchez, Chairman
Departamento Ing. Metalúrgica
Edmundo Larenas 270
Casilla (P.O. Box) 53-C
Concepción, Chile
Phone: +56 41 - 204241
Fax: +56 41 - 243418
E-Mail: msanchez@udec.cl

The role of the mine geologist

Driliing, sampling and analysis

Mapping and geology modelling

Geotechnical, structural and hydrogeology

Metallury and ore characterisation

Ore reserves and resources

Grade control and reconciliaiton

Geophysics and new technologies

Environmental Geology and Rehabilitation

Management, education and training and Working in the urban environment.

For further information please contact: ALTA Conference Secretariat 4 Newbury Close Lower Templestowe Victoria, Australia 3107

Contact:
Graham Couch, ALTA Conference Secretariat
A. Metallurgical Services
4 Newbury Close
Lower Templestowe
Victoria, Australia, 3107
Phone: +1-613-9850-3484
Fax: +1-613-9850-5446
E-Mail: confsec@altamet.com.au

Topics to be Covered
• World-Class Ore Systems, Ultimate Origins
• Ore Deposits in Volcanic Terranes
• Geology of Nevada
• Tectonics and Ore Deposits
• Ore Deposit Models for Frontier Exploration
• Environmental Geology
• Exploration Technology for the 21st Century
• Tons and Grade-Descriptive Geology of New Discoveries

In addition to the many topics to be discussed by our team of experts, we will also be offering a series of Short Courses by some of the most knowledgable people in their respective fields.

Field Trips , Exhibits and Social Events have been arranged for your enjoyment.

Contact:
Geological Society of Nevada
PO Box 12021
Reno, Nevada, USA, 89510-2021
Phone: +1-775-323-4569
Fax: +1-775-323-3599

This conference is an opportunity for mining industry suppliers, owners & operators, exploration, and Ministry of Energy & Mines, Mines Branch to discuss what is happening in Northern British Columbia in a relaxed atmosphere than can only happen in northern BC.

This session will discuss issues relevant to gold mining, with emphasis on placer mining, such as effective recovery, trends in gold prices and reclamation planning and practice.

Contact:
Klondike Placer Miner's Association
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

ASTM Committee D-5 on Cole and Coke will be held at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Toronto Canada. ASTM meeting are open to all interested individuals.

Contact:
Len Morrissey, Conference organizer
ASTM
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Phone: +01-610-832-9730
E-Mail: lmorriss@astm.org

Sponsored by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration Inc.

Contact:
SME, Meetings Dept., Event Co-ordinator
meetings@smenet.org
P.O. Box 625002
Littleton, Colorado, USA, 80162-5002
Phone: (303)973-9550
Fax: (303)979-3461
Toll Free: 1-800-763-3132

Emissions Trading is fast becoming one of the most talked about subjects in industrial circles domestically and worldwide and the stakes are hight. In the battle against climate change, your organization's financial helath could be a risk. Whether your organization is a supplier or buyer of emissions credits, Emissions Trading 2000 will provide you with the expertise to fully maximize opportunities to profit from the emissions trading marketplace.

Abstracts are due by September 30th, 1999
Submit to:
Dr. Raj K. Singhal
P.O. Box 68002
Crowfoot Postal Outlet,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3G 1Y0
Fax: (403)241-9460.

Contact:
Margaret-Anne Stroh, Conference Management Services
University of Calgary
1833 Crowchi

The world's best metals and mining investmnet conference.

Topics to be covered:
• Internet & hight tech
• Mid-Cap growth stocks
• Energy/oil & gas
• Global Opportunities

The Northeast Investment in Mining Conference offers 2 full days of events and exhibits relating to the mining industry in the new millenium.

Newletter editors that deal with the ever changing face of the mining will be treated to Workshops lead by some of the best mining editors in the business today. Workshops will held on both days to assist your editor.

Contact:
Lawrence Roulston, Resource Opportunities, Editor & publisher
International Investment Conferences, Inc.
6310 Sunset Drive
Miami, Florida, USA, 33143-4823
Phone: +1-305-669-1963
Fax: +1-305-669-7350
E-Mail: iiconf@iiconf.com

The Conference will provide a forum for presentation of innovations in the following topics:
• -automation of mining machines
• -underground transport
• -methane and other gas monitoring
• -telecommunication in mining
• -central computer monitoring and control
• -coal and minerals processing automation
• -instrumetnation
• -process modelling and simulation

• Planning Techniques
• End Land Use Plans
• End Land Use Assessments
• Sustainability of End Land Use Planning

With strong market fundamentals and demand for diamonds, this very timely program will be the catalyst for strategic alliances, successful financings and the expansion of the shareholder base for worldwide diamond companies.

This program will also increase investor education about diamond mning to facilitate economic development and provide necessary financing for projects. Participation will be particularily valuable for companies located outside of North America to reach the large capital bases in New York, Toronto and Vancouver markets, and their respective investors.

Exploitation of natural resources generates interaction between geotechnical engineering and the environment - the symposium will address the following general aspects of this interaction:

1) The direct consequences of the extraction/acquisition of resources from the ground.
2) Disposal of the waste products from processing/utilisation of resources.
3) The use of mineral wastes in geotechnical construction.
4) Ground reclamation/re-utilisation and treatment.

Contact:
Dr. Paul H. McMahon, MSc Course Director
Bolton Institute
Civil and Environmental Engineering Subject Group
Faculty of Technology
Dean Road
Bolton, UK, BL3 5AB
E-Mail: pm4@bolton.ac.uk

MINMEX 2000 will feature an exhibition and seminar that will focus on the Nigerian solid minerals industry and the largely un-harnessed investment opportunities.

Participating firms will be encouraged to promote their machinery and services, manage private seminars and workshops focusing on various aspects of the industry. MINMEX 2000 promises powerful keynotes and topical conference and seminar papers by leading and professional experts from Nigerian and other countries.

Key issues to be discussed at the Conference include:

• The official sector
• Investment
• Producers
• Jewellery demand

The Waterloo in Situ Course provides the scientific and technical basis for the control and remediation of plumes of contaminants dissolved in groundwater. Recent developments in monitored natural attenuation (MNA) and for passive and semi-passive remediaiton of plumes and source zones will be presented.

The course will review and provide analysis of:
• data needs for delineating plumes, desgining and monitoring MNA andin situ treatment of organisc,
• the EPA approach to MNA, supporting tools, their limitation, and recent andvances
• semi-passive, insitu treatment of source zones
• enhanced natural bioattenuation and boiaugentation
• the design of sem-passive plume interception and in- situ treatment involving fences of wells, permeable barriers and Funnel-and -Gate systems
• pilot-scale and full-scale experience at a variety of sites with inplementation of MNA and in situ, semi-passive technologies, including zero-valent iron, metal preceipitation, and biodegradation treatments.

Valuation 2000 is sponsored by the three major national US appraisal societies.

• The large-scale environmental WISMUT Project and its significance for economic and regional devleopment
• Economic and ecological approaches to remediation - options and limitations
• Remediation & rehabilitation
• Development of innovative remedial technologies for the mining industry
• Mining and mine rehabilitation interrelationships

The conference will be done in the German and English language with simultaneous interpretation.

Contact:
Wismut GmbH
JagdschankenstraBe 29
Chemnitz, Germany, 09117
Phone: +011-49-371-81200
Fax: +011-49-371-812-0107

39th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, COM 2000, will be held in Ottawa, Ontario.

Contact:
Louisa Davis, Conference organizer
Metallurgical Socitey of CIM
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Phone: +1-514-939-2710 ext:317
Fax: +1-514-939-9160
E-Mail: Idavis@cim.org

Located in northwestern Argentina, Mendoza is close to much of the exploration and mineral development that is going on the in the country, as well as across the border in Chile.

The conference will comprise technical papaers on geology, mining, metallurgy and allied topics. Field trips to the Bajo de la Alumbrera mine and other deposits will be offered.

Make your reservations early and save $1000.00

Congress topics will include:
Mine water, underground and surface mines,
Mine closure and reclamation,
Environmental impact of mining activity,
Utilization of mine water and mine wastes,
Environmental mine legislation

Contact:
Dr . Andrzej J. Witowski, Dr. Andrezej Kowalczyk, Secretariat of the 7th IMWA Congress
University of Silesia
Bedzinska Str., 60
41-200 Sosnowiec
, Poland
Phone: +48 32 291 68 88
Fax: +48 32 291 58 65
E-Mail: awitkows@us.edu.pl

As the biotechnology industy emerges, Canada will now host an annual Conference and Exhibiiton. BioFuture 2000 will be focused around a world class Conference and joined by a major Exhibiton and Investor presentation. Witht he vast array of biotechnical opportuniteis about to deluge the industry, the BioFuture 2000 Conference will be focusing its direction on Envioronmental, Thereapeutics, Agriculture, Lab Diagnostics, and Investments.

The hibition will be limited exclusively to the first 103 exhitors withthe Investor program will take advantage of Canada's ability to promote a truly international fucus on investor market opportunies and strategies.

Contact:
, Conference organizer
BioFuture 2000
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Phone: +1-403-254-9222
Fax: +1-403-256-8495
E-Mail: exhibit@gwexpo.com

111 International Symposium of Computer Applications for the Mining Industry.

Contact:
, Chairman of the organising commitee, Eng.
Carlos Santa Cruiz, IIMP
Av. Los Canarios 154-156
Urb. Sand Sesar 11, Etapa La Molina
Lima, Peru
Fax: +011-51-1-349-0449
E-Mail: Infomina2000@iimp.org.pe

Miami Construction Show - MIACON/Miami Mining Show-MIAMIN

Contact:
Jose A Garcia, Event Coordinator
MIACON/MIAMIN
2921 Coral Way
Miami, Florida, USA, 33145
Phone: +1-305-441-2865
Fax: +1-305-529-9217
E-Mail: mail@miamin.com

Hydrometallurgy Forum (Oct 2-3)

ALTA 2000 SX/IX - 1 (Oct 4-5)

Including International Trade Exhibiiton.

Call For Papers.

Contact:
Elizabeth Hounslow, Business Development Manager
ALTA Metallurgical Services
PO Box 126
Blackburn South, Victoria, Australia, 3130
Phone: (61 3) 9877 9335
Fax: (61 3) 9877 9336
E-Mail: info@altamet.com.au

The conference will provide a forum for all interested parties to meet and discuss both formally and informally issues relevant to the current states-of-practice as well as future directions. The conference combines five themes of common interest, with a number of invited letures reflecting the activities and interest of delegates from all participaing organisations.

Register early and save $1000.00

Themes
• 1.Exploration Technology
• 2.Mining Technology
• 3.Processing Technology
• 4.Information Technology
• 5.Reliability
• 6.Environmental Technology