Short Course on African Metallogeny
“Mineral Resources-Based Sustainable Development in Africa”
23rd to 31st March 2015
Africa is well endowed with mineral resources and yet much of Africa’s mineral riches remain to be discovered. Mining has played a pivotal role in the economy of many African countries with contributions to foreign exchange earnings exceeding 50% in many instances. There is no doubt that the exploitation of mineral deposits could form a substantial, if not the strongest, platform on which to base the future uplifting of the African economy. The discovery of new deposits as well as the economic and sustainable exploitation of known deposits requires skills that are not as readily available in many areas of Africa as they might be in other parts of the world. The aims of the recently founded Short Courses on African Metallogeny have been firstly to train African geoscientists in the specific field of metallogeny. So far, the original goal to conduct these short courses on an annual basis in different parts of the continent could be achieved. After three highly successful editions, beginning in 2012 in Burkina Faso, followed in 2013 in Zambia and in 2014 in Morocco, we are very pleased to announce the fourth of these courses, which is being organized by the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA), in collaboration with the School of Earth Sciences at Addis Ababa University, the Ethiopian Ministry of Mines in collaboration with the Ethiopian Geoscience and Mineral Engineering Association (EGMEA) and the Geological Society of Africa (GSAf), and supported by UNESCO, IUGS, and the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG).
Short course flyer with more details.
Contact Course organiser for more information:
Hartwig Frimmel: hartwig.frimmel@uni-wuerzburg.de
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