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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
For more information on
GeoRegina
2014
, please visit the conference web-
site at
Seventh International
Conference on Deep and High
Stress Mining
September 16 - 18, 2014
Sudbury, Ontario
Underground mining continues to
progress at deeper levels and industry
is now extracting mineral reserves at
depths that previously would have
been considered “unmineable”. Deep
mining is a very technical and chal-
lenging environment. The geotechni-
cal and logistical issues, including
recirculation and refrigeration of fresh
air, are often intense and best practices
and innovations need to be imple-
mented.
The Australian Centre for Geome-
chanics, The University of Western
Australia looks forward to hosting the
Seventh International Conference on
Deep and High Stress Mining in Sud-
bury for the first time. This follows the
previous International Deep and High
Stress Mining Seminars held in Perth,
2012; Santiago, 2010; Perth, 2007;
Quebec City, 2006; Johannesburg,
2004; and Perth, 2002. The series
objective is to promote documentation
of the latest technologies and practices
of mining in deep and high stress min-
ing environment.
For more information, go to the con-
ference website at
www.deepmining2014.com
First International Conference
on Discrete Fracture Network
Engineering
October 19 - 22, 2014
Vancouver, B.C.
The Vancouver rock mechanics
community is pleased to host
DFNE
2014, the 1st International Confer-
ence on Discrete Fracture Network
Engineering
,
This conference will be the inaugural
international meeting of engineers
and geoscientists who use discrete
fracture network engineering in the
characterization of rock masses and
solutions of engineering problems.
This new and rapidly expanding area
of engineering has wide applications,
including underground and surface
mining, underground nuclear waste
disposal, petroleum geomechanics,
civil engineering and natural haz-
ards. Most modern geomechanical
simulation software packages now
include the option to consider discrete
fracture networks which are increas-
ingly important to engineers and
geoscientist involved in practical rock
engineering and fluid flow problems.
This conference will include key-
note lectures by experts in the areas
of Discrete Fracture Networks and
their application to mining, civil and
petroleum engineering. With almost
170 accepted abstracts and five short
course/workshops dealing with a wide
range of DFN topics from data col-
lection and structural geology to DFN
development and geomechanical mod-
eling, a major focus of the conference
is to provide a practical introduction to
DFN engineering and its relevance to
industry as well as to introduce state-
of-art developments.
DFNE 2014
will be held at the
Sheraton Wall Centre in scenic down-
town Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada from October 19 - 22, 2014.
The
DFNE 2014
organizing com-
mittee invites you to join us to share
your ideas and experiences in the
increased development and practical
use of this technology under the theme
Engineering Characterization of
Fractured Rock Masses: Applica-
tions of Discrete Fracture Network
Engineering.
The Conference Co-Chairs are
Doug
Stead
of Simon Fraser University and
Bill Dershowitz
of Golder Associates.
For more information contact Doug
Stead at
68th Canadian Geotechnical
Conference and 7th Canadian
Permafrost Conference
September 20 - 23, 2015
Québec City, Québec
Call for Abstracts
The Eastern Quebec Section
of the
Canadian Geotechnical Society and
the
Canadian National Committee
for the International Permafrost
Association (CNC-IPA)
, invite you
to
GéoQuébec 2015
, for the joint
68th Canadian Geotechnical and 7th
Canadian Permafrost Conference. The
conference will be held from Sep-
tember 20 - 23, 2015 in the Conven-
tion Center in Québec City, Québec.
It will cover a wide range of topics,
including speciality sessions that are
of local and national relevance to the
fields of geo-engineering, permafrost
and engineering geology. In addition
to the technical program and plenary
sessions, the conference will include
a complement of workshops, short
courses, technical excursions and local
tours.
The official languages for the confer-
ence will be English and French. The
Convention Center is located in the
historic downtown area of Québec
City, a UNESCO World Heritage
Site, facing onto Québec’s Parliament
Hill. Old Québec City, which is the
cradle of French civilization in North
America, is best explored on foot and
September is the best time of the year
with a typically warm, dry weather
and the maple trees just beginning to
take on their colourful fall foliage.
The conference theme
Challenges
from North to South
, reflects the
diverse and complex challenges