News 2024 Annual Autumn Business Meeting

2024 Annual Autumn Business Meeting

 

The 2024 three-day autumn annual joint meeting of the IUGS Commission on Global Geochemical Baselines, the EuroGeoSurveys Geochemistry Expert Group (EGS-GEG) and the Geochemistry Group of the Asociación de Servicios de Geología y Minería Iberoamericanos (ASGMI) will be held in Prague, and the premises of the Czech Geological Survey (Klárov 3, CZ-118 21 Praha 1, Czech Republic).

 

The days will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday (19th to the 21st of September 2024).

 

Colleagues needing an invitation letter for:

 

Pre-registration

 

Please inform Alecos Demetriades of your intention to participate.

 
The schedule will be as follows:-
  • Thursday, 19th of September 2024, reporting (after the meeting we will visit the extraordinary palaeontological collections of the Czech Geological Survey, and afterwards we will go to a nice restaurant for a shared-cost evening meal). 
  • Friday, 20th of September 2024, presentations of recent work (after the meeting we will take a short walk around Prague and afterwards we will go to a restaurant for a shared-cost evening meal).
  • Saturday, 21st of September 2024, excursion.  We will visit Pribram, a historical polymetallic deposit and radioactive material deposit. We would go through the separation line-processing of tailings after U-ore mining.  Our host, Michal  Poňavič , would like to know how many colleagues are interested in joining the Saturday excursion, because It is important the number of participants for the transportation arrangements. 
 
Hosts are our colleagues, Michal Poňavič, Eva Martinková and Julie Erban Kocergina.

The EGS-GEG is celebrating the 10th anniversary since the publication of the GEMAS project two-volume atlas.  It was published in April 2014.  It is hoped that even retired GEMAS Project Team members will be able to come to Prague for a reunion.