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Quelle carrière pour demain? Partenariat entre les industries de matières premières minérales et les pôles de recherche scientifique

In Belgium, large underground mines have been closed for decades but there are still many important open quarry exploitations of raw materials such as of limestone, dolostone, porphyry, quartzite, sand, clay, gravel,... and moreover, large quantities of ores and industrial minerals are being imported.

This symposium will offer the different parties concerned the possibility to discuss this issue, the European, national and regional authorities, the universities and other research institutes and the industrial partners. More specifically we wish to emphasize the relationship between the scientific research and the extractive/transformation industries. The following questions will be addressed: How do we consider the future extractive industry in Belgium? To what extent can our industry relate on secondary resources? What is the future of ‘Landfill Mining’ and ‘Urban Mining’? What can we undertake with the publication by the European Commission of the list of 14 ‘critical’ materials with a risk of supply shortage within 10 years?

Venue

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Vautier street, 29
1000 Brussels
BELGIUM

Provisional Program

22/03/12 : CONFERENCES

• 9:00 : Welcome
• 9:30 – 9:40 : Opening speech
• 9:40 – 10:10 : Pim Demecheleer (NV Sibelco)
  "Challenges in defining Europe's raw materials base"
• 10:10 – 10:40 : Jean-Claude Lazarewicz (Société de l’Industrie Minérale - France)
  "Access to raw materials in France: limitations et perspectives"
• 10:40 – 11:00 : Ruth Allington (President European Federation of Geologists/GWP Consultants LLP, UK)
  "The quarry design process as an essential framework for sustainable planning and operation of aggregates quarries"
  
  
• 11:00 – 11:30 : Coffee break
  
  
• 11:30 – 12:00 : Ralf Littke (Rwth-Aachen)
  "Shale gas resources in Europe"
• 12:00 – 12:30 : Chris De Groot (ALBON)
  "Monitoring system for a sustainable surface mineral resources policy"
  
  
• 12:30 – 13:30 : Lunch time
  
  
• 13:30 – 14:00 : Ben Laenen (VITO)
  "Urban mining: a local source for raw meterials and energy"
• 14:00 – 14:30 : Johan Vanderbiest (NV Wienerberger)
  "From primary excavation to secondary materials"
• 14:30 – 15:00 : Luc Hance (Carmeuse s.a.)
  "Customer specifications driving the extraction for the lime industry"
  
  
• 15:00 – 15:30 : Coffee break
  
  
• 15:30 – 16:00 : Kris Piessens (Geological Survey of Belgium)
  "Industrial and metallic resources in Europe: preparing for strategic decisions"
• 16:00 – 16:30 : Koen Degrendele (Federale Overheidsdienst Economie, Dienst Continentaal Plat)
  "Marine sands and gravel : industrial and scientific aspects"
• 16:30 – 17:00 : Anne Vergari. (FEDIEX)
  "Integrated gestion of the quarries today: towards new responses to geological, technical and environmental constraints."

23/03/12 : FIELD TRIP

• Morning : The Famennian sandstones quarry of Yvoir. Marbres et Pierres d’Yvoir s.a. (E. Dapsens)
  Leaders : J.Thorez (Prof. émérite ULg), E. Groessens (GSB collaborator), R. Dreesen (GSB collaborator), F.Tourneur (Pierres et Marbres de Wallonie) & B. Delcambre (UCL).
  Geology, sedimentology, products, by-products, national and international market, paving stones
• Afternoon : Quarry of dolostones of Marche-les-Dames (Lhoist Group)
  Leaders : P. Koch, A. Lauwers, A. Volvert, B. Haas, Ph. Maréchal & J. Chaboteaux.

Organizing committee

• Eric Goemaere (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Geological Survey)
  Email : eric.goemaere@naturalsciences.be
• Johan Yans (University of Namur)
  Email : johan.yans@fundp.ac.be
• Jan Elsen (University of Leuven)
  Email : Jan.Elsen@ees.kuleuven.be

Scientific committee

• Dominique Nicaise (CSTC-WTCB)
• Ben Laenen (VITO)
• Griet verhaert (ALBON)
• Rudy Swennen (KuLeuven)
• Patric Jacobs (UGent)
• Veerle Cnudde (Ugent)
• Isabelle Fernandez (EurGeol EFG)
• Michiel Dusar (GSB-RBINS)
• Edouard Poty (Ulg)
• Alain Préat (ULB)
• Alain Rorive (Faculté Polytechnique de Mons)
• Philippe Sonnet (UCL)
• Francis Tourneur (Pierres et Marbres de Wallonie)
• Régis Lorant (FEDIEX)

Registration fee

• Master students: free of charge (no lunch)
• Phd-students: 20€
• Members of professional organisations (Fediex, SIM, UBLG/BLUG), scientific societies (GB, EFG, CBH…), GSB, Universities and Sponsors: 30€
• Other people: 50€

The registration fee includes:

• Access to the conference session
• Abstract book
• Refreshments as scheduled in the conference programme
• Lunch dinner

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