Number: 1999-004-1-600 [ 6/1/99 ]
Title: Environmental Analytical Chemistry - Workshop on Problems
Related to Mining in Africa
Series: Joint IOCD/IUPAC Task Group
Coordinator(s): W.R.
Benson - Access
to list of members
Remarks: Joint project with the International Organization for
Chemical Sciences in Development, IOCD
Completion Date: 2000 - project completed
Objective:
To make available the latest lab techniques, information and official
methodology to African analytical and supervisory chemists on environmental
analytical chemistry.
Description:
Five day Regional workshop will be held at the University of Potchefstroom,
South Africa, in conjunction with the South African Chemical Institute's
National Annual meeting. It is anticipated that 10 African countries
will be involved in the reviewing environmental chemistry activities
related to mining. Chemists in the developing world are faced the globalization
of the economy. Regulatory chemists and their lab managers need to be
aware of the latest official methods of analysis. Africa is engaged
in heavy mining projects. Ten officials of five different Chemical Societies
in Africa all said that their largest pollution problems came from mining.
Progress:
For protecting the water, air, food, and soils in Africa from those
problems associated with mining, we propose to organize a workshop which
addresses these and related analytical problems based on the past successful
workshops of this Joint Working Party.
Worshop date and location: 24-29 Sept. 2000, Potchefstroom,
South Africa.
<http://www.saci.co.za/35th_convention/webcirc1.htm>
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report
A previous Workshop was planned in Prague, Czech Republic, 16-18 June,
1999. > Program
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Last update: 7 December 2000
<Project announcement published in Chem.
Int.
22(3), 2000>