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geotec Rohstoffe GmbH

Partnership for Acid Drainage Remediation in Europe

Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology

Helmholtz Forschungszentrum Rossendorf

International Association of Hydrogeologists

International Mine Water Association

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Fachsektion Hydrogeologie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften

About FreibergFreiberg is located 240 km south of Berlin, 45 kmsouthwest of Dresden and inspires visitors with animpressive medieval atmosphere and over 800 years of history in silver and metal mining. The Bergakademie Freiberg (Freiberg mining academy) was founded in 1765 and is thus the oldest still existing one in the world. Nowadays the Technical University has more than 6,000 students, being an important geo-center for research as well as for undergraduateand graduate education.

Scientific and Organizing OfficeTU Bergakademie FreibergDepartment of GeologyMSc.-Ing. Alireza ArabGustav-Zeuner-Straße 12 09599 Freiberg, Germany

Phone: +49-3731-39-2642Fax: +49-3731-39-2720Email: umh@geo.tu-freiberg.dehttp://www.tu-freiberg.de/umh-vii-2014

Registration

With this announcement a final registration form will be available and has to be be filled out by the participants. Authors must register and pay the conference fee before July 1st, 2014, in order to get the full paper printed in the conference proceedings.

If a fair number of people will ask for an accompanying programme, guided cultural tours will be organized at an extra fee.

Conference feeThe conference fee includes refreshments, workshops ice breaker party and conference proceedings. UMH participants may join the IAEA UMREG sessions without extra fees.

Registration for non-membersstbefore July 1 , 2014 Euro 200.00

after July 1, 2014 Euro 250.00

Registration for membersstbefore July 1 , 2014 Euro 150.00

after July 1, 2014 Euro 200.00

Student registration Euro 80.00 (incl. conference proceedings)

TUBAF Members’ Registration Free(Conference proceedings not included)

*members´rate applies to members and repsentitives of cooperating organisations

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TU Bergakademie FreibergDepartment of GeologyChair of Hydrogeology

URANIUM MINING

AND HYDROGEOLOGY& IAEA UMREG Meeting 2014

(The International Atomic Energy Agency

Uranium Mining and Remediation Exchange Group)

nd2 CircularCall for Abstracts

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thSeptember 21 - 25 , 2014Freiberg, Germany

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Important deadlinesst10.08.2013 1 Circular & Call for abstracts

15.02.2014 Abstract submission deadline

15.03.2014 Notification of acceptancerd15.03.2014 3 Circular & Preliminary programme

30.06.2014 Camera ready papers

30.06.2014 End of early bird registration and Payment

nd20.12.2013 2 Circular & Call for abstracts

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- UMH is offers sponsoring, advertising and exhibition opportunities. For full information please visit the UMH website or contact the organizing office.

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Conference ObjectivesOnce again, the Institute for Geology at the TU

Bergakademie Freiberg is pleased to invite you to the

international conference “UMH VII” taking place in Freiberg

in September 2014. The UMH VII conference will be an

international forum for discussing uranium related problems

and protecting and preserving our environment. This

conference builds up on the tradition of past conferences

(UMH I to UMH VI) from 1995 until 2011.

Practitioners, consultants, regulators, politicians,

researchers, scientists, engineers, and students will have

numerous opportunities to learn about innovative and

emerging scientific advances and technologies.

Also, the IAEA Technical meeting of the Uranium Mining

and Remediation Exchange Group (UMREG) will hold it’s

2014 meeting during two days. UMREG is a network of peers

working in the remediation of uranium mining and ore

processing facilities that has existed for nearly 20 years.

Session I: Uranium Mining

* In-situ leaching

* Heap leaching

* Radiation protection

* Environmental issues

* Life-cycle concepts

* International safety standards

* Risk assessment studies

* Education, training, and public relations

Session II: Uranium and Phosphates

* New methods of Uranium recovery

* Phosphogypsum

* Case studies

Session III: Clean-up technologies for water and soil

* Mine closure: concepts, clean up and reality

* Phytoremediation / stabilization

* Microbiological aspects

Session IV: Uranium and daughter nuclides

* Species analytics

* sotopes

* Sensors and assays

* Radon indoor

* Uranium and radium in drinking water including water treatment

Session V: Basic research and modelling

* Thermodynamics and kinetics

* Reactive transport modeling

* Fate of uranium released by phosphate fertilizers

* Intelligent management and treatment of uranium-enriched mine water

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* Impact of Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters on groundwater

Paul Brown, Australia

Peter Waggitt, Australia

Peter Woods, Austria

Horst Monken-Fernandes, Austria

Stoyan Groudev, Bulgaria

David Blowes, Canada

Lechang Xu, China

Nada Rapantova, Czech Rep.

Juani Suksi, Finland

Eberhard Falck, France

Gert Bernhard, Germany

Gert Dudel, Germany

Stephanie Hurst, Germany

Alex Jakubick, Germany

Michael Paul, Germany

Gerhard Schmidt, Germany

Ewald Schnug, Germany

Vinzensz Brendler. Germany

Christian Wolkersdorfer, Germany

Yaduvendra Agrawal, India

Bolat Uralbekov, Kazakhstan

Bekmamat Djenbaev, Kyrgyz Rep.

Isakbek Torgoev, Kyrgyz Rep.

Said Fakhi, Morocco

Fred Kamona, Namibia

Nico Scholtz, Namibia

Fernando Carvalho, Portugal

Henk Coetzee, South Africa

Frank Winde, South Africa

Jordi Bruno, Spain

Christian Ekberg, Sweden

David Read, UK

Bernd Lottermoser, UK

Diane Blake, USA

Arokiasamy Francis, USA

Donald Metzler, USA

Organizing CommitteeBroder Merkel, Chair

Alireza Arab, Coordinator

guidelines

Guidelines Papers/PostersthDeadline for submitting an abstract is February 15 ,

2014. Abstract should be maximum 300 words as PDF file and submitted e-mailed to the conference office .The final paper will consist of a maximum of 10 pages including tables and figures (even page number).Posters should not exceed 1.20 m height to 0.90 m width.The formats of the paper and poster presentations will be communicated to the author(s) or is downloadable from the UMH-website.The author should send the final paper before June

th30 , 2014. Early submission is strongly encouraged. Either the author or co-author of the accepted papers or poster have to be registered and paid the

stconference fee by July 1 , 2014.Oral and poster presentations are published in the conference proceedings. The conference language is English. Oral presentations will be 20 minutes plus 5

online or

Preliminary Programme1000-1700 Workshop

1800 Icebreaker party

0900-1200 Opening Ceremony

1300-1800 Parallel Session

1800-2000 Poster Session

0900-1800 Parallel Session

1900 Conference Dinner

0900- 1500 Parallel Session

1500-1700 Workshop

Field trip

Plenum Talks

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ParallelSession

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