Russian Academy of Sciences

Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation

International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits (IAGOD)

XIV INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON PLACER AND WEATHERED

ROCK DEPOSITS (PWR-2010)

«Placers and Weathered Rock Deposits:

Modern Problems of Research and Development»

02-10 September 2010,

Novosibirsk, Russia

We invite you to take part in the XIV International Symposium on Placer and Weathered Rock

Deposits. This meeting is held in our country every four years since 1969. This meeting is dedicated to

the memory of the founder and leader of the placer geology science

academician RAS Nikolay A. Shilo (1913-2008)

and his associate and follower

prof. Natalia G. Patyk-Kara (1938-2008)

Placers and weathered rock deposits are the source for many important types of commodities (gold,

platinum, diamonds, bauxites, nickel, manganese, tin, rare metals, titanium, zirconium, jam stones etc.)

which potential is not exhausted yet. Siberia is the region where placers (including unique large ones)

are one of the main types of economically important mineral deposits.

Registration fee:

foreign participants - 200 US$

Russian participants - 3000 roubles

students - 500 roubles

Official languages of the Symposium – Russian and English

Important dates

First Circular – January 15, 2010

Preliminary registration – before February 15, 2010

Extended Abstract submission – April 1, 2010 (dead-line)

Second Circular – May 2010

The Symposium Dates – September 5–7, 2010.

Field Trips: September 2-5, 8-10, 2010