• Understand how they have incorporated international guidelines to improve water management through governance structures, risk management and reportability initiatives
• Hear how they are maximizing water reuse to reduce freshwater use to enhance water efficiency and reduce their environmental footprint
• Learn how they are providing ongoing training and stakeholder engagement promoting sustainability and operational efficiency

• Hear how they are engaging with community representatives in water management planning
• Learn how they are building trust to achieve water stewardship success 
• Identify tangible benefits to local communities 

• Discover how the Pilbara Region’s early 2000s expansion relied on tactical mining with water management as a key enabler
• Learn how operations are now in a sustaining phase, with older mines closing & replacements underway
• Understand the adaptive approach to water management, aligning corporate water goals with operational tools that supports mine plans.  

This is a chance to engage with your peers to discuss what you’ve learned in previous case studies and to discuss additional challenges and solutions. 

Discussion points: 

• How to communicate sustainability efforts to communities, reduce environmental footprint and align corporate water goals with on-site reality 
• Developing external and internal water shed water stewardship strategies

• Identifying the metrics
• Brine
• Understanding the geochemical characterization of material in order to be flexible with water treatment 

• Results of utilizing a new non-hazardous, environmentally friendly reagent with several technical advantages in water treatment
• Optimizing in-situ treatment using an unmanned smart dispensing vessel: lessons learned from site demonstrations
• ESG and economic benefits achieved 

• Process Design Development 
• Risk-Based Approach
• Current and Advanced Treatment Technologies

This is a chance to engage with your peers to discuss what you’ve learned in previous case studies and to discuss additional challenges and solutions. 

Discussion points: 

• Environmentally friendly water treatment solutions and approaches
• Flexible water treatment practices
• New economic and environmental metrics for water treatment

• Water stewardship strategies that enhance resource efficiency and minimize environmental impact
• Collaborating with local communities to support shared water management initiatives
• Investing in partnerships to empower communities and create lasting social and economic benefits 

• Steps Newmont is taking to prepare for evolving biodiversity reporting requirements
• Commitment to achieving net-positive impact on biodiversity across operational sites
• Examples of habitat restoration and biodiversity project

• Continuously monitor water inputs, outputs, and quality to ensure compliance and transparency
• Employ advanced technologies and innovative techniques to minimize water consumption
• Implement closed-loop systems to maximize water recycling 

• Hear how New Gold’s site water balance went from negative to positive to negative and optimized utilization
• Understand how they managed this transition with an operational water balance model as the priority tool to make informed decisions
• Learn how they developed a multidisciplinary team that collaborated to ensure quality outputs of the model that were useful across departments on site

• Hear their use of geophysical tools to characterize hydraulic properties of the bedrock
• Advantages compared to Packer Testing 
• Results presentations

• Assessing environmental impact and identifying areas of risk
• Simulating dewatering issues