• 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.

• Performance of the bioreactor.     
• Required maintenance, including rebuilds and tracer studies.
• Opportunities for increased treatment rates.

• 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 for constituent strategy development to minimize environmental impact.
• Using sustainability lenses incorporating company and local community values to determine a path forward.
• Outcomes of developed strategy.

• Water and sanitation (WASH) challenges facing communities in and around mines.
• CSI options for sustainable water management.
• Trust-building through community-corporate WASH partnerships: lessons from Pitstop/Eradicatour.

• Steps Newmont is taking to prepare for evolving nature reporting requirements, focusing on water.
• Commitment to contribute to nature positive future.

• 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.
• Interacting with site wide water balance modeling.