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SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MINE CAVES Iglesias (Sardinia, Italy) April 26th ? 29th 2012
Since the early stages in the development of human kind, caves wereused as mines to extract minerals impossible to find at the surface.Later, mining activities, digging galleries underground, allowed toreach a peculiar type of natural cavities, the so called ?mine caves?, that would otherwise be impossible to explore and study. These cavities, which are particularly widespread within carbonate formations, were known since the antiquity but they started to be studied only very recently. Mine caves have shown to be extremely important in several research fields: from speleogenesis to cavemineralogy, from history of mining activities to cave tourism, just tocite the most important ones. A first Symposium on mine caves was held in Iglesias in 2004 giving a strong impulse to the research, which flourished in the following years not only in Italy but also in many Countries abroad. For these reasons the Sardinian Geomining and Historical Environmental Park, together with the Sardinian Speleological Federation and the Italian Institute of Speleology decided to organize a Second International Symposium on Mine Caves to discuss the latest achieved results in this field all around theWorld. Date and Venue 25- 29 April 2012 Iglesias (Sardinia) (Depending on organizing problems, dates are provisional: the final dates will be fixed in the near future and they may change from 1-2days before or later of the actually fixed dates).
Tentative programme April 26th All day Arrival and registration of the Participants April 27th Morning Welcome by the Local Authorities Invited talks
Afternoon The Naica Caves
Evening Film show on Naica April 28th
All day Invited talks and presentations on mine caves ofthe world
Evening Official dinner
April 29th All day Excursions in the Iglesiente mine caves
End of the Symposium and departure of the participants
Abstracts Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts on any topic relatedto mine caves. An abstract of a maximum of 500 words must be submitted to the Scientific Committee. Oral and poster presentation will be accepted. Oral presentation will normally last 15 minutes each.
After the Symposium the presentations, accepted by the Scientific Committee,will be printed in a special issue of the International Journal of Speleology.
Costs The registration fee of 100 ? allows to participate to the symposiumsessions, excursions and dinner and to receive the book of abstracts.
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline January 31st 2012
Confirmation of acceptance February 20th 2012
Final papers July 3th 2012
Contacts paolo.forti@unibo.it and jo.dewaele@unibo.it
Since the early stages in the development of human kind, caves wereused as mines to extract minerals impossible to find at the surface.Later, mining activities, digging galleries underground, allowed toreach a peculiar type of natural cavities, the so called ?mine caves?, that would otherwise be impossible to explore and study. These cavities, which are particularly widespread within carbonate formations, were known since the antiquity but they started to be studied only very recently. Mine caves have shown to be extremely important in several research fields: from speleogenesis to cavemineralogy, from history of mining activities to cave tourism, just tocite the most important ones. A first Symposium on mine caves was held in Iglesias in 2004 giving a strong impulse to the research, which flourished in the following years not only in Italy but also in many Countries abroad. For these reasons the Sardinian Geomining and Historical Environmental Park, together with the Sardinian Speleological Federation and the Italian Institute of Speleology decided to organize a Second International Symposium on Mine Caves to discuss the latest achieved results in this field all around theWorld. Date and Venue 25- 29 April 2012 Iglesias (Sardinia) (Depending on organizing problems, dates are provisional: the final dates will be fixed in the near future and they may change from 1-2days before or later of the actually fixed dates).
Tentative programme April 26th All day Arrival and registration of the Participants April 27th Morning Welcome by the Local Authorities Invited talks
Afternoon The Naica Caves
Evening Film show on Naica April 28th
All day Invited talks and presentations on mine caves ofthe world
Evening Official dinner
April 29th All day Excursions in the Iglesiente mine caves
End of the Symposium and departure of the participants
Abstracts Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts on any topic relatedto mine caves. An abstract of a maximum of 500 words must be submitted to the Scientific Committee. Oral and poster presentation will be accepted. Oral presentation will normally last 15 minutes each.
After the Symposium the presentations, accepted by the Scientific Committee,will be printed in a special issue of the International Journal of Speleology.
Costs The registration fee of 100 ? allows to participate to the symposiumsessions, excursions and dinner and to receive the book of abstracts.
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline January 31st 2012
Confirmation of acceptance February 20th 2012
Final papers July 3th 2012
Contacts paolo.forti@unibo.it and jo.dewaele@unibo.it