Digging deeper. Volume 1 / Копаем глубже. Часть 1

In 2003 the Council of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) decided to accept the offer from the Irish Association for Economic Geology (IAEG) to organize its’ 9th Biennial Meeting. The title proposed was “Digging Deeper”, not meant in the this literal sense (although this is partly true in some ore districts) but metaphorically in terms of using more scientific applications and methodologies to understand mineral deposits and also to use advanced techniques in mineral exploration. The IAEG believed that this would have a broad interest to industry which is presently booming and would, we believed, still be in the throws of this boom in 2007. <...>