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5th International Seiminar on Deep and High Stress Mining
Written by Grzegorz Kwiatek
Friday, 25 September 2009
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in collaboration with the Australian Centre for Geomechanics, the University of Toronto and the University of Witwatersrand, is pleased to host the 5th International Seiminar on Deep and High Stress Mining, October 6th to 8th 2010, in Santiago, Chile.
As the mining industry is facing new challenges in order to extract the mineral resources at increasing depths, the Deep Mining International Seminar series provide a forum for the industry, academics and researchers to share information, experience and ideas on deep and high stress mining.
Papers are called in the following areas:
Planning and design
Ventilation
Blasting
Risk and safety
Geophysics
Seismicity and seismological analysis
Numerical modelling
Ground support and ground behaviour
Observations and monitoring
Case studies
Intending authors are invited to submit a 500-word abstract by 1 March 2010 to
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. Those abstracts which have been received for the previous seminar date will automatically be included unless the intending authors notify on the contrary. Abstracts are to be submitted as a Word document. They are to provide a general scope of the work, a summary of the results, and the significance of the work and applications. They should also include the title, authors’ affiliation, and the contact author’s address, telephone and fax numbers and email address. All accepted papers will be included in the Deep Mining 09 seminar proceedings. Authors will be notified of abstract acceptance by late March 2010.
Key Dates:
All abstracts received by: 1 March 2010
Acceptance of abstracts and authors notified: 22 March 2010
The technological response to increasing needs for energy and minerals results also in appearance of induced seismicity in previously aseismic areas;
Strong seismic events caused by human technological activity are dangerous for people, technical devices, and infrastructure objects;
The problems of estimation, prediction and mitigation of the hazards implied by induced seismicity have not found satisfactory solutions;
The present unsatisfactory level of understanding of the hazards implied by induced seismicity results partially from insufficient integration of research groups in the field,
we propose to initiate TEAMWORK FOR HAZARD ESTIMATION FOR TRIGGERED AND INDUCED SEISMICITY (THETAIS). THETAIS will be a virtual centre team to study all aspects of the seismic hazard due to triggered and induced seismicity. Presently, research groups dealing with induced seismicity are organized around technological processes that originate the seismicity. THETAIS initiative is intended to group scientists and industrial representatives in virtual research centers defined by specific scientific problems, which are common regardless the processes that cause seismicity. Cooperation within the teamwork will be supported by modern IT.
Some details describing THETAIS initiative are presented in the attached document.
The first open meeting of TEAMWORK FOR HAZARD ESTIMATION FOR TRIGGERED AND INDUCED SEISMICITY will take place during the ESC General Assembly A in Montpellier on Thursday, Sept. 9th at 12:00 (room Barthez, level 2). All interested are welcomed.
Please have a look into the email I (and possibly many of you) received today. I encourage you to undersign the open letter to the President of the Italian Republic and support our colleagues.
Dear colleagues and friends,
Two weeks ago the L’Aquila Prosecutor’s office indicted of manslaughter the members of the National High Risk Committee that met in L'Aquila one week before the Mw6.3 earthquake. The charges are for failing to provide a short term alarm to the population before the earthquake struck, killing more than 300 people. The president of INGV, Enzo Boschi (member of the High Risk Committee), and the director of the National Earthquake Center, Giulio Selvaggi (just accompanying Boschi to the meeting as technical specialist), are among the scientists in seismology and earthquake engineering now under investigation together with some civil protection officials.
The aim of the ECGS-FKPE Workshop on „Induced Seismicity“ is to bring together leading scientists that work in this field. In contrast to similar workshops on this theme, we want to bring together mainly academic researchers as well as representatives from state geological surveys or state earthquake onitoring agencies. A special volume of the Cahiers du Centre Européen de Géodynamique et de Séismologie will be published with extended abstracts to be printed just before the meeting).
