VNIIOKEANGEOLOGIA
RWTH-AACHEN UNIVERSITY
BERLIN FREE UNIVERSITY
Joint International Conference
MINERALS OF THE OCEAN-7 & DEEP-SEA MINERALS AND MINING-4
02-05 June, 2014
VNIIOkeangeologia (Angliysky pr., 1)
St.Petersburg, Russia
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
02 June, Monday
18.00 – 20.00 Registration of participants, Reception/Ice-breaker
03 June, Tuesday
10.00 – Welcome announcement
10.15 Plenary Session.
Convener: Georgy Cherkashov
10.15 – 10.35 Johannes Post (HYDROMOD Service GmbH, Hannover, Germany), Michael
Jarowinsky (MC Marketing Consulting, Hamburg, Germany), Peter Halbach (Berlin Free
University, Berlin, Germany)
Recent Efforts in Germany to found a powerful Consortium on the Exploitation and Mining of
Marine Mineral Resources.
10.35 – 10.55 Graham Westbrook1,2, T.A. Minshull1, S. Ker2, B. Marsset2, S. Sarkar1, H. M.
Moreno1, B. Sinha1
1
Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of
Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
2
Géosciences Marines, Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, France.
HYDRATE BENEATH THE SEABED OFFSHORE SVALBARD, INDIRECT EVIDENCE
FROM SEISMIC SURVEYS AND THERMAL MODELLING
10.55 – 11.15 Zhu Kechao, Yang Yong (Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, Guangzhou,
China), Zhang Fuyuan, Zhang Weiyan (The Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Hangzhou,
China)
The Distribution of Ferromanganese Nodules in Chinese Pioneer Area in the Eastern Pacific and
Detailed Exploration in Local Area
11.30 - 11.50 Sergey Andreev, G.A. Cherkashov
(VNIIOkeangeologia, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Exploration of the marine minerals: Russian experience.
11.50-12.10 Coffee-break
12.10-12.30 Victor Ivanov and Logatchev team
(Polar Marine Geosurvey Expedition, Lomonosov, Russia)
Preliminary results of the recent expedition to the Russian Exploration Area at the MAR.
12.30 - 12.50 Xuefa Shi, Bing Li, Jun Ye, Yaomin Yang, Quanshu Yan, Xiangwen Ren
Key Laboratory of Marine Sedimentology and Environmental Geology, First Institute of
Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, China
Hydrothermal mineralization at 14.0°S vent field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge: implications for
hydrothermal systems at ridge-transform inside-corner intersections of slow-spreading midocean ridges.
12.50-13.10 Sven Petersen1, Colin W. Devey1, Maren Walter2, John W. Jamieson1, Isobel Yeo1,
Ko-ichi Nakamura3, Marcel Rothenbeck1, Anja Steinführer1, Lars Triebe1
1
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. 2Institut für Umweltphysik
(IUP), Universität Bremen. 3National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
(AIST), Japan
Exploration for hydrothermal activity along the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge using long-range
(>100 km) AUV surveys
13.10 - 14.20 Lunch
14.20 Technical session
Convener: Peter Halbach
14.20-14.40 1,2Georgy Cherkashov, 2Vlad Kuznetsov, 3Victor Bel’tenev, 2Erick Tabuns
1
VNIIOkeangeologia 2 Institute of Earth Sciences, SPbSU 3PMGE, St. Petersburg, Russia
230
Th/U chronology of Seafloor Massive Sulfides at the MAR: results and problems.
14.40-15.00 Irina Melekestseva (Institute of Mineralogy UB RAS, Miass, Chelyabinsk district,
Russia), V.E. Beltenev, V.N. Ivanov (Polar Marine Geosurvey Expedition, St.-Petersburg–
Lomonosov, Russia)
Peterburgskoe and Irinovskoe hydrothermal fields, MAR: a diversity of massive sulfides and
mineralized rocks
15.00-15.20 John W. Jamieson, Sven Petersen, Nico Augustin, Anja Steinführer (GEOMAR,
Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany), Javier Escartin (Institut de Physique du
Globe de Paris, France) & ODEMAR Scientific Party
Seafloor massive sulfide formation on oceanic core complexes: Recent exploration of the
Semyenov and Irinovskoe hydrothermal fields, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
15.40-16.00 Ye Jun, Shi Xuefa, Yang Yaomin, Li Bin, Ren Xiangwen
First Institute of Oceanography, SOA, China
Hydrothermal Mineralization at 15°S and 26°S on South Atlantic Ridge
16.00-16.20Coffee-break
16.20-16.40 Irina Gablina (Geological Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia), Dobretzova I.G. (Polar
Marine
Geological
Expedition,
St.Petersburg,
Lomonosov,
Russia),
Popova
E.A.(VNIIOkeangeologiya, St.Petersburg, Russia)
MINERAL COMPOSITION AND FORMATION OF SULFIDE ORES IN THE 19-20°N
AREA MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
16.40-17.00 Svetlana Babaeva, Andreev S.I., Kazakova V.E.
VNIIOkeangeologia, St. Petersburg, Russia
Сomprehensive analysis of the typomorphic features of seafloor massive sulphides
17.00-17.20 Boris Uglov (Central Geological Research Institute for Nonferrous and Precious
Metals), Egorov I.V. (I.S.Gramberg VNIIOkeangeologia, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Geophysical and geomorphologic study of seafloor massive sulphides
17.20-17.40 Ozhogina E.G., Rogozhin A.A., Yakushina O.A., Likhnikevich E.G.
N.M. Fedorovsky Institute of Mineral Resources, Moscow, Russia
Seafloor massive sulphides: evaluation by the methods of technological mineralogy
17.40-18.00 Sergey Sudarikov
Mining University, St.Petersburg, Russia; VNIIOkeangeologia, St.Petersburg, Russia
Geochemistry and structure of hydrothermal plumes along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
18.00-19.00 Discussion & Poster session
04 June, Wednesday
10.00 Technical Section.
Convener: Xuefa Shi
10.00 - 10.20 Zhang Huodai, Zhu Benduo, He Gaowen
Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, Guangzhou, China
REE Content of Polymetallic Nodules in COMRA’S Contract Area
10.20 – 10.40 Peter E. Halbach, Andreas Jahn (Free University Berlin), Andrea Koschinsky
(Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)
Fractionation of REEs in marine ferromanganese crusts controlled by the main oxide compounds
and water depth
10.40 – 11.00 Ren Jiangbo, Zhu Kechao, Deng Xiguang, He Gaowen, Zhang Huodai
MLR Key Laboratory of Marine Mineral Resources, Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey,
Guangzhou, China
Contribution of phosphatization to the Rare Earth Elements accumulation in Co-rich Fe-Mn
Crusts
11.00 – 11.20 REN Xiangwen, YAN Shijuan, SHI Xuefa.
Key Laboratory of Marine Sedimentology & Environmental Geology, First Institute of
Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, China
Origin of texture of Co-rich ferromanganese crusts - evidences from simulation based on
Diffusion-Limited Aggregation
11.20-11.40 Coffee-break
11.40 - 12.00 Mikhail Melnikov
Yuzhmorgeologiya, Krasnodarsky Krai, Russia
Some aspects of the application site planning in accordance with regulations for exploration of
cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts in the area
12.00-12.20 Tatiana Sedysheva, M.Ye. Melnikov
Yuzmorgeologiya, Gelendzhik, Krasnodarsky Krai, Russia
Criteria of comparison of equal commercial value for a sites at the stage of application
submission for a cobalt-rich manganese crusts
12.20-12.40 Yang Yong, He Gao-wen, Zhu Ke-chao, Yao Hui-qiang, Ma Jin-feng, Yang Shengxiong, Deng Xi-guang
MLR Key Laboratory of Marine Mineral Resources, Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey,
Guangzhou, China
Classification of substrate types of Qianyu seamount from Mid-Pacific seamounts using
multibeam backscatter intensity data
12.40-13.00 Pavel Mikhailik, E.V. Mikhailik, N.V. Zarubina, M.G. Blokhin
Far East Geological Institute, FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia
Peculiarities of Fe–Mn crusts composition from the North-West Pacific seamounts
13.00 - 14.20 Lunch
Convener: Valery Yubko
14.20-14.40 V.V.Kruglyakov
Yuzhmorgeologiya, Gelendzhik, Krasnodarsky Krai, Russia
To the nature of oceanic manganese nodules
14.40-15.00 Rita Goleva
N.M. Fedorovsky Institute of mineral resources, Moscow, Russia
Complex investigation of the oceanic ferromanganese ores - basis of the confidence estimation
of the inferred resources.
15.00-15.20 Stanislav Verichev, Laurens de Jonge, Wiebe Boomsma, Rodney Norman
IHC Mining B.V., Kinderdijk, The Netherlands
Deep sea mining: from exploration to exploitation
15.20-15.40 Cheonhong Min, TaekyeongYeu, Hyungwoo Kim and Sup Hong
Korea research institute of ships & ocean engineering, Daejeon, Korea
Axial vibration analysis of long umbilical cable with a pilot mining robot
Coffee-break 15.40-16.00
16.00-16.20 Tom Wambeke1,2, Joerg Benndorf2
1
MTI Holland (IHC Merwede), Smitweg 6, 2961 AW Kinderdijk, The Netherlands
2
Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628CN Delft, The Netherlands
Embracing geological uncertainty in marine resource exploration and exploitation
16.20-16.40 V. Chernyshev, A. Gavrilov
Volgograd State Technical University, Volgograd, Russia
Traction properties of walking machines on underwater soils with a low bearing ability
16.40-17.00 Pavel Mikhailik1, V.V. Ivin2, E.V. Mikhailik1
1
Far East Geological Institute, FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia
2
A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia
Advantages of using remotely operated vehicle in the study of the geological structure of the
marginal seas of the Far East of Russia.
17.00 – Final discussion
18.00 – 22.00 Banquet on the ship and excursion along Neva river
05 July Thursday
Excursion to Peterhof at will (duration – app. 6 hours, from 10 am)