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Clay Minerals Group
The Clay Minerals Group promotes the advancement of clay science and clay technology as applied to all aspects of pure and applied research and industrial uses. The interests of its members cover a wide spectrum, including mining and mineral processing, soils and plant nutrition, crystallography, sedimentary geology, ceramics, petroleum engineering and medicine. Regular meetings are held two or three times a year. The group publishes reference monographs on specific aspects of clay science, is responsible for the journal Clay Minerals, and sponsors the annual
George Brown Lecture. Further details about the group are available from the secretary, Dr D.S. Wray at D.Wray@greenwich.ac.uk The Group also provides CMG Bursaries to help students and CMG members attend conferences.
Clay Minerals Group Committee
Office bearers
in the Clay Minerals Group since foundation
Report of September 2008 meeting: AluSiV -
Aluminium and silicon in soils and the environment
(including photographs, powerpoint presentations and recordings
of several of the talks).
Visit the 'Images of Clay' picture archive
14–16 December 2009, Newcastle University,
UK
FINAL PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE
MAPS OF NEWCASTLE:
City Map,
Walking Map,
Restaurants+Pubs Map,
Newcastle University Campus Map
Instructions for presenters
Registration has now closed. If you
would still like to attend the meeting, please contact
Maggie White who
will arrange on-site registration for you.
REGISTER
(paper form)
Book
your own accommodation (list of recommended hotels, and prices)
Abstracts should be submitted at the
time of registration. They may also be submitted later, by
email, to kevin@minersoc.org.
Only abstracts submitted by those who have registered will be
included in the abstract volume. Abstracts will only be accepted
up to 30/11/2009.
FuturoClays: advances in clay science
for future geological, environmental and industrial applications
Clays and clay minerals are abundant and widespread in soils and
sediments worldwide and clays form well over 50% of the
sedimentary rocks which occupy about ¾ of the Earth’s surface.
They are widely used in agricultural, industrial and
environmental engineering applications due to their remarkable
set of physical and chemical properties, such as large surface
area, low permeability, large cationic exchange capacity,
swelling behaviour, etc. In recent years, scientific research
has largely focused on the development of new clay-based
technologies. In particular, several teams of researchers have
been focusing on the study of Fe reduction and reoxidation in
Fe-bearing clays and clay minerals and its application to the
remediation of contaminated land and waters. Many others have
focused their research on the development of organoclay
materials, pillared clays, or other clay-based materials for
environmental or agricultural applications.
New advances in these issues will be addressed by a number of
eminent keynote speakers including
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Prof. Joseph W. Stucki (University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign, USA) (the 10th George Brown lecture)
Evolution of the study of redox reactions of Fe in smectites
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Dr Ravi Kukkadapu (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
Richland, WA, USA)
Effect of Fe-mineral (oxides and clays) reductive
biotransformations on remediation of radioactive metals from
contaminated aquifers
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Dr Eric Ferrage (HydrASA Laboratory, Université de Poitiers,
France)
Recent advances in the characterization of organizational
properties of water in expandable clays
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Dr Deeba M. Ansari (Imerys Minerals Ltd., St Austell,
Cornwall, UK)
Current and future demands for clay minerals – an industrial
perspective
The meeting will be based
around two days of talks and a one-day field trip to examine
local coal-bearing sequences associated with the low-Fe clays
that are mined for brick-making. This is an excellent
opportunity to see innovative methods of dust suppression an
environmental practice in a working surface mine. The first day
of the meeting will focus on the theme of 'iron reduction in
clays and clay minerals', while the second day will be a more
general session dealing with all new advances in the field of
clay science.
The Futuroclays conference dinner will be held on Monday 14
December in the prestigious and newly refurbished Great North
Museum: Hancock and will include a curator-led tour of the
museum and exhibits (free of charge to any Futuroclays
delegates).
Organizing committee: David Manning (chair),
Claire Fialips,
Maggie White, Andy
Aplin, Joe Harwood, Uzochukwu Ugochukwu, Phil Renforth and Sani
Yahaya.
Registration
now open.
FINAL PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE
MAPS OF NEWCASTLE:
City Map,
Walking Map,
Restaurants+Pubs Map,
Newcastle University Campus Map
Instructions for presenters
Registration has now closed. If you
would still like to attend the meeting, please contact
Maggie White who
will arrange on-site registration for you.
REGISTER
(paper form)
14/12 – Iron in clays
15/12 – General session
16/12 – Field trip:
Visit to
Banks opencast mine at Shotton
First circular
For all enquiries, email Claire Fialips (cfialips@yahoo.com),
Maggie White (Maggie.White@ncl.ac.uk)
or David Manning (david.manning@ncl.ac.uk). |