BC Chamber hosts golf tournament

The British Columbia & Yukon Chamber of Mines will hold a golf tournament at the Mayfair Lakes Golf and Country Club in Richmond, B.C., on May 13.

Players of various skill levels will participate in a team best-ball Texas scramble; thus if a player hits a bad shot, he simply picks up the ball and moves it to where the best-hit ball of the group lies.

Money raised from the event will go to a recognized charity.

To register, visit www.bc-mining-house.com or phone Gary Giroux at (604) 684-0899.

Economic analysis in Golden

A presentation on discounted cashflow concepts is slated for Golden, Colo., on July 21-25.

The course provides economic analysis of income-producing and service-producing investments using discounted cashflow analysis and measures.

The source of the analysis is the book Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods, written by two professors of the Colorado School of Mines.

The fee for the course is US$1,675, which covers tuition and a set of textbooks. For more information, call (303) 273-3321 or e-mail space@mines.edu

Extemin expects bigger numbers

More than 10,700 participants from around the world are expected to attend the Extemin 2003 mining conference in Arequipa, Peru, from Sept. 15 to 19.

Extemin often attracts senior management and technical personnel from Peruvian mining companies. It is organized by the Peruvian Institute of Mining Engineers.

The event will include various technical presentations, as well as an “entrepreneurial meeting,” in which executives can discuss new business ventures.

For more information, contact Cristina Dunn of the Canadian Association of Mining Equipment & Services for Export (CAMESE) at dunn@camese.org or call 1-905-513-0046, ext. 305.

Guth leads 3-D short course

Peter Guth, an oceanographer with the U.S. Naval Academy, will teach a course on the use of topography in visualizing geology, geomorphology and active tectonics. The course precedes the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting and exposition, slated for Nov. 2-5 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle.

The course will take place Nov. 1 and cost US$650.

Designed for those who want to use digital elevation models for three-dimensional analysis, the course will focus on the use of high- resolution digital topography.

Guth will discuss the detection of fault scarps and the mapping of marine terraces, landslides and geomorphology, as well as satellite imagery.

For more information, e-mail the Geological Society of America at gsaservice@geosociety.org or call 1-888-443-447.

India hosts mining congress

India will host the 19th World Mining Congress Nov. 1-5 in New Delhi.

About 3,500 mining experts and 1,000 exhibitors are expected to attend the event, which is being organized by the Tafcon Group, in conjunction with the Indian branch of the Institution of Engineers.

India is the third-largest producer of coal in the world.

For more information, visit www.19wmce2003.com/index.htm or contact the Indian National Committee of World Mining Congress at +91-11-23327635. E-mail: info@19wmce2003.com