- Advanced materials, including high-performance technical ceramics and glasses
- Analytical techniques, instrumentation and automation
- Bio-mimetic mineral materials, medical mineralogy
- Construction materials including cement/SCMs, concrete, bricks, tiles, screeds
- Cultural heritage, stone artifacts and preservation
- Environment and energy mineralogy, including CO2 sequestration
- Geometallurgy and process mineralogy
- Industrial minerals including gems, ore minerals, and mineral exploration
- Oil and gas reservoirs, including gas hydrates/clathrates
All 10th ICAM publications shall be digitally accessible, color printable and fully searchable. Publications will include eg. peer-reviewed congress proceedings, extended abstracts and posters (further details below), congress program, technical visit guide.
Workshop course notes and/or excursion guides will be available to respective participants.
A digital copy of the 10th ICAM proceedings and a printed Program & Extended Abstracts booklet will be included in the registration fee. Printed hardcopies of the proceedings shall be available for pre-order through this website.
Guided poster sessions
The 10th ICAM will see a revival of the successful “guided poster sessions” from the ICAM 2004 in Brazil. These shall be held in the early evening hours after the technical sessions, with posters arranged per session. Thus, delegates have the opportunity to reassess a session, or to scrutinize parallel sessions initially not attended.
Nota bene: posters are intended as a means of enhanced communication among all delegates, and explicitly NOT as a sort of ‘second-rank publication’. All authors are to submit a poster in addition to the full manuscript, extended abstract and oral presentation. Posters will be included in the digital version of the ICAM Proceedings, and may very well contain additional data to the manuscript.
All posters will be outlined in 1-minute presentations, after which delegates will have time for discussion in an informal and relaxed atmosphere. Beverages, light-alcoholic drinks and light snacks will be available for purchase.
Submission and peer-review process
All contributions submitted to the 10th ICAM are all subject to a journal-style peer-review process, to warrant a consistent and high quality. Go to www.icam2011.org/submission.html to submit your contributions. Further instructions will be given onscreen.
One or two-day workshops will be organized on 30 and 31 July 2011, directly preceding the actual 10th ICAM congress. To respond to emerging themes and hot issues within the 10th ICAM scope, you are herewith invited to submit your workshop proposal.
Contact 10th ICAM secretary Mrs Anne Liinamaa-Dehls at secretary.icam2011@NGU.no for further instructions. All submitted proposals will be screened by the organizers, and selected themes will be announced in the second circular.
MSA short course “Applied mineralogy of cement and concrete”
This MSA short course will be convened by Dr. Maarten A.T.M. Broekmans from the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) and Prof.Dr.Dr. Herbert Pöllmann from the Martin Luther Universität in Halle (Saale) in Germany. Published proceedings of the MSA and GS short courses will appear as a volume in the Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry series. For further details see www.minsocam.org/MSA/SC . A list of confirmed contributors and (tentative) titles is given in the table below.
| author(-s) | contribution title |
| mineralogy and geochemistry of binder materials | |
| Jos Brouwers | ”Hydration of Ordinary Portland Cement" (confirmed title) |
| Harald Justnes | alternative low-CO2 ‘green’ clinkering processes |
| Herbert Pöllmann | aluminate cement clinker, special cements |
| Ian G Richardson | “Calcium silicate hydrates in nature, concrete and synthesized in the laboratory” (confirmed title) |
| Roger Meier | phase analysis of cement and clinker |
Ruben Snellings, |
“Natural and artificial cement replacement materials” (confirmed title) |
| Paul Stutzman | microscopical identification of clinker constituents, photo atlas of clinker mineral micro-morphology |
| deterioration and decay of concrete | |
| Maarten Broekmans | alkali-aggregate reactions in concrete, including ASR, ACR and SLEASSR |
| Per Hagelia | sulphate attack of concrete |
| Carolyn Hansson | corrosion of steel in concrete |
| Peter Laugesen | “The microstructure of real life concrete: Implication of mix design and casting techniques on obtained micro-morphology of concrete - with typical features of various subsequent decay types” (confirmed title) |
A half-day fieldtrip will be arranged during the congress at no additional fee.
After the congress, selected field trips will be organized to different destinations around the Scandinavian peninsula. Several options are currently under consideration, and the final choice will be announced in the second circular, together with booking details.
During the congress, a separate daytime activity program will be organized for a small additional fee. This may include a morning jog, a guided city sightseeing tour, a visit to a local museum, etc. Further details will be presented in the second circular.
The latest edition of the International Congress on Applied Mineralogy (ICAM) was held in Brisbane/Australia on 8‑10 September 2008. An overview of all previous ICAM editions is presented in below table. Additional information is located at the website of the International Council for Applied Mineralogy (also ICAM) at www.bgr.de/icam/home.html.
| edition | year | venue | congress chair |
| 10th | 2011 | Trondheim, Norway | Maarten Broekmans |
| 9th | 2008 | Brisbane, Australia | Ying Gu |
| 8th | 2004 | Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil | Henrique Kahn |
| 7th | 2000 | Göttingen/Hannover, Germany | Robert B. Heimann |
| 6th | 1996 | Warsaw, Poland | Andrzej Szymanski |
| 5th | 1993 | Perth, Australia | Jim Graham |
| 4th | 1991 | Pretoria, South Africa | Sybrand de Waal |
| 3rd | 1989 | Montréal, Canada | Bill Petruk |
| 2nd | 1984 | Los Angeles, USA | Donald Hausen |
| 1st | 1981 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Sybren Hiemstra |
The ICAM-council website defines ‘applied mineralogy’ as:
“Applied mineralogy covers the complete spectrum of mineralogical activity in 1) the exploration for, and exploitation of, base metals, precious metals, base minerals, industrial minerals, building and construction materials, and carbonaceous materials, in mining, extractive metallurgy, and economic geology, as well as in
2) the investigation and development of refractories, ceramics, cements, alloys and other industrial materials, including ancient material, and
3) the study and protection of the environment.”
The same website furthermore defines the goals of ICAM-congresses as:
- ICAM should provide an interdisciplinary forum for specialists in the fields of mineralogy, chemistry, mineral exploration, engineering, environment, ceramics, metallurgy, archaeometry and medicine.
- ICAM is to recruit industrial participation, to highlight their current research needs, and to promote contacts to specialists in all fields of applied mineralogy.