Wednesday June 8 |
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9:00 am | Navon | The formation of fibrous and monocrystalline lithospheric diamonds |
9:30 am | Weiss | Diamond-forming fluids – from micro to macro |
10:00 am | Timmerman | Silicic to saline fluid inclusions in Koffiefontein diamonds |
10:15 am | Smit | Type Ib diamond formation and preservation in the West African lithospheric keel: Re-Os age constraints from sulphide inclusions |
10:30 am | Coffee | |
11:00 am | Kohn | Developments in FTIR spectroscopy of diamond (part 1): Nitrogen aggregation in zoned diamonds, the timing of diamond growth and the thermal history of the lithosphere |
11:30 am | Speich | Developments in FTIR spectroscopy of diamond (part 2): The kinetics of platelet growth and degradation as a potential thermochronometer |
11:45 am | D’Haenens-Johansson | Identification of treated synthetic diamonds |
12:00 pm | Czas | Diamond formation and evolution beneath the Sask Craton, Canada |
12:15 pm | Motsamai | Diamond Inclusions from Karowe Mine, Botswana |
12:30 pm | Lunch | |
1:30 pm | Jacobsen | Earth’s deep mantle water cycle: what diamond inclusions might be telling us |
2:00 pm | Shirey | Diamond dating: how it is done and what it means |
2:30 pm | Rosenthal | Heterogeneous mantle melting |
2:45 pm | Rapp | Sediment-derived Fluid Metasomatism in the Subcratonic Lithospheric Mantle and the Origin of Diamonds |
3:15 pm | Coffee | |
3:35 pm | Jacob | Insights into subcratonic lithosphere development from banded kyanite eclogite xenoliths |
4:05 pm | Shu | Mantle evolution of the Kaapvaal craton |
4:30 pm | Kopylova | Local fertilization of the mantle and proto-kimberlite formation |
5:00 pm | Liu | Age and evolution of the mantle lithosphere beneath Chidliak, Baffin Island. |
6:30 pm | Social Event: The Rocky Mountain Ice House @ 10516 Jasper Ave (Corona LRT station) | |
Thursday June 9 |
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9:00 am | ScottSmith | The economic implications of kimberlite emplacement. |
9:30 am | Russell | Kimberlite Ascent and Eruption: Insights from Particle Attrition Studies |
10:00 am | Gaudet | Renard 65: A multi-phase Pipe infilled with hypabyssal and Kimberly-type pyroclastic kimberlite |
10:15 am | Katayama | Magmatic S-isotopic compositions of sulfides and sulfates in the “salty” Udachnaya-East kimberlite |
10:30 am | Sarkar | Dating kimberlite magmatism and new results from the Slave and Rae cratons |
10:50 am | Coffee | |
11:10 am | Kjarsgaard | A 4000 km longCretaceous kimberlite corridor in N America |
11:40 am | Soltys | In-situ assimilation of mantle minerals by kimberlitic magmas – Direct evidence from a garnet wehrlite xenolith entrained in the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) |
11:55 am | Guiliani | Trace element traverses across kimberlite olivine: A new tool to decipher the evolution of kimberlite magmas |
12:25 pm | Busseweiler | Al – in – olivine thermometry: experimental versus empirical calibration and analytical challenges |
12:40 pm | Lunch | |
1:40 pm | Rivard | Imaging spectroscopy for kimberlite core characterisation |
2:10 pm | Elliott | Slave Province Surficial Materials and Permafrost Study |
2:40 pm | Grutter | Rapid lithosphere-scale events constrained by cpx thermobarometry for the Coromandel area, Brazil |
3:10 pm | Harris | Mantle chemistry and age beneath the Darby kimberlite, NW Rae craton |
3:25 pm | Coffee | |
3:45 pm | Hardman | Statistical discrmination of mantle eclogitic garnet from crustal garnets |
4:00 pm | Poitras | Indicator mineral chemistry of the Horn Plateau, NWT |
4:15 pm | Nowicki | Are size distributions of natural diamond populations lognormal and does it matter |
4:30 pm | Smith | Resolving the origins of KIMs on Banks Island, NWT |
6:00 pm | Social Event/Dinner: The Faculty Club, University of Alberta | |
Friday June 10 |
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09:30 am | Laboratory Tours CCIM Ion probe lab, Mass spec lab, De Beers Diamond Display, Closed Cell Laser ablation |