Visiting WA

Professor Robert Mair, professor of geotechnical engineering at Cambridge University in the UK, to speak an Engineers Australia’s seminar on tunnelling and underground structures, September 12 at the University Club. Rod Hill - head of metals & mining Asia Pacific, WestLB (Germany); Sam Akoitai - Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Mining; Horacio Ramos - director of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, Department of Environment & Natural Resources (Philippines); and Benjamin Romualdez, president of the Asean Federation of Mining Associations, to speak at the Asia Pacific Downunder Conference, on September 18 and 19 at the Sheraton Hotel.