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Timings reflect Canadian Eastern Time (UTC/GMT-4)
26 April 2022
Registration opens
Welcome from the chair
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Lesley Warren
Director, Lassonde Institute of Mining - University of Toronto
REGULATION, REPORTING & STRATEGY
Reimagining and advancing the way mines manage water to ensure strategic resilience
Uncovering the key drivers behind prioritising more an efficient water management strategy and explaining why water stewardship is part of the business’s strategy. How does reporting and regulation drive business transformation? What can be done now to improve resilience in the mining industry? How are you improving your transparency of ESG with the community?
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Charles Dumaresq
Vice President, Science and Environmental Management - Mining Association of Canada
Global best practice for water reporting, stewardship and regulation
Outlining how to standardize water reporting to help promote a shared responsibility over water catchments, improve community engagement and make informed decisions. Explaining how the industry can optimize the way it regulates, monitors and prioritizes water through the full life cycle of the mine.
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Dawn Brock
Manager - ICMM
PANEL DISCUSSION: The future of regulating and reporting water in mining
- What is your regulatory landscape like in your country?
- How are you engaging with smaller mining companies to help them adhere to the law?
- How has collaboration helped you regulate the mining industry’s use of water and engaged with policy?
- How are you supporting mining companies to introduce a circular economy with water? What policies are you introducing?
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Sandra Choqesillo Santillan
Legal Specialist Level I - General Directorate of Mining Environmental Affairs - Ministry of Energy and Mining -
Tatiana Aguilar
Head of corporate mining - Ministry of Mines and Energy, Colombia
Networking and refreshments break
MANAGING WATER SCARCITY
Enhancing desalination processes to sustainably source water cost effectively
Exploring how desalination can provide a clear solution to water scarcity and enable mines to be more resilient to adverse weather and climate change. Debating the impact on communities and marine life and the need for a collaborative approach to a sustainable supply of clean water.
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Patricio Mártiz
Director - ALADYR -
Juan Miguel Pinto
Director, Sales & Strategy - Americas for Energy Recovery Inc.
CASE STUDY: Water and salt management in gold mines in West Africa
Delving into essential processes to optimise the management of salt and water.
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James Murray
Industrial Utilities/ Heavy Industry - Veolia HQ -
Henri Joggand
Senior Technical Expert - Veolia HQ
Ensuring water security for mining operations
Explaining how to work with external stakeholders in water stressed areas to ensure a secure and equal supply of water. Planning for long term water security by using alterative resources.
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Hermien Oberholzer
Senior Principal Engineer Water and Infrastructure - Anglo American Platinum
Question & answer session
Networking & lunch break
BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Pick a topic of your choice
Stream A: Community Engagement will be chaired by Lesley Warren, Director, Lassonde Institute of Mining and Michael van Aanhout, Facilitator, Towards Sustainable Mining, Community of Interest Advisory Panel
Stream B: Water Quality & Treatment will be chaired by Jay Werber, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
CASE STUDY: prioritizing water stewardship and sustainable water management
- Outlining how to optimize water stewardship and consider the local communities to mining operations. Why should the industry prioritize sustainable water management?
- What challenges were overcome to build a successful water stewardship strategy?
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Shirley Neault
Manager, Environment and Systems - Hudbay Minerals
Demystifying microbial film engineering to improve acid mine drainage control in situ.
Enhancing natural repair processes in mine wastes and improving the quality of mine drainage seepages to the receiving environments.
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Margarete Kalin-Seidenfaden
Research Director - Boojum Research
Building a robust community engagement strategy to ensure water licensing approval
Revealing how to successfully engage with local communities and businesses to improve water sourcing, usage and treatment. Learning how to construct community engagement into the wider strategy for water in mining.
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Jocelyn Fraser
Research Associate - University of British Columbia
Investigating new innovations for water recovery and re-use
Exploring new technology to recover water from mining effluents using forward osmosis and freeze concentration. Water capture and recovery for re-use, and minimization of discharge, energy costs and freshwater intakes.
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Vladimiros Papangelakis
Director - Institute for Water Innovation
Minimizing environmental water impacts and engaging with the local community to obtain project permits
Delving into the importance of strong community engagement when applying for new licenses for mining projects. Understanding how to improve transparency over impacts for local communities and avoid social conflicts.
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Marielena Lucen
Professor of environmental engineering - University of Engineering and Technology, Peru
Optimising reverse osmosis units with difficult to treat waters
Developing new antiscalants to control severe calcium sulphate precipitation up to saturation ration limits of 14.0.
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Naresh Kanderi
Technical Development Manager - Italmatch, USA
Question & answer session
Networking & refreshment break
Roundtable discussions (in-person only)
Creating business cases and securing funding
- How has funding been an obstacle or facilitator to community engagement?
- What would you like to see companies invest in and prioritise to aid stakeholder engagement?
Moderator: Shirley Neault, Environment & Systems Manager, Hudbay Minerals
Progressing CSR and stakeholder engagement to transform relationships
- How can mining be a catalyst for sustainable improvement host communities sustainable
- How are you going above and beyond?
- What’s next for mining community relations?
Moderator: Jocelyn Fraser, Research Associate, University of British Columbia
Engaging with communities and indigenous populations in non-developed nations
- What is your approach to engagement? Do you have one strategy?
- How are your current relationships with local communities, are there any social conflicts?
- How are you managing community expectations?
Roundtable discussions (in-person only)
Converting poorer quality water into a useable resource
- How can desalination and reverse osmosis aid reuse of water throughout mining operations?
- How does this change sourcing water for certain sites?
Moderator: Jay Weber, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Treating water in perpetuity
- What solutions are you exploring for treating water in closed and legacy mines?
- How does climate change impact planning?
Moderator: Vladimiros Papangelakis,Director, Institute for Water Innovation
Treating contaminated water on a mine site
- What is the role of regulators in your region?
- How are you managing relations with the local communities?
- What is the most efficient way to balance capital and operational costs?
Moderator: Ron Benn, Director, Boojum Research
Feedback session
FUTURE GAZING WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE MINING INDUSTRY
CLOSING KEYNOTE: The role of water in mining by 2040
Taking a futuristic perspective on the importance of water for mining companies and how it will be sourced, used and discarded in the coming decades.
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Blair Douglas
Global Practice Lead for Hydrology and Water - BHP
Closing remarks from the chair
Speaker
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Lesley Warren
Director, Lassonde Institute of Mining - University of Toronto
Drinks reception
Following the conference, enjoy informal networking and drinks with your peers
Close of day 1
