Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in collaboration with the Australian Centre for Geomechanics, the Université Laval, and the University of Witwatersrand, is organizing an International Seminar on Deep and High Stress Mining , from October 6th to 8th 2010 in Santiago City, Chile.

As the mining industry is facing new challenges in order to extract the mineral resources at increasing depths, the Deep Mining International Seminar series provide a forum for the industry, academics and researchers to share information, experience and ideas on deep and high stress mining.