10 April 2019
Registration, Coffee, and Innovation Showcase
WATER USE MINIMISATION & EFFICIENCY
Creating a Water Management Program in Order to Achieve Production & Water Efficiency Targets Simultaneously
- Identifying today’s and tomorrow’s challenges while understanding the management of water on mine sites
- Reporting and documenting water utilization from the mines and mills
- Benchmarking with sites mining similar minerals in similar climates
Speaker
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Seth Mueller
Senior Development Engineer - Environment - Boliden Mines
Data Requirements in the Design and Operation of the Water Management System
- The value of data collection in project development
- Continuous monitoring to ensure the consistency of design, operation and trends
- Data collected during operation are basis for mine closure design.
Speakers
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Mei Schelp
Senior Manager, Water Management - Centerra Gold -
David Luzi
National Technical Leader - Hydrology - Stantec
Mine Affected Water Minimization Technology – 3 Years of Development
- Results of treating different types of mine affected water, collected from different mine sites with MAXH2O Desalter technology.
- Showing significant advantage as a treatment alternative for mine affected water.
- Reaching high recovery of over 90%, and decreasing chemical consumption and sludge discharge.
Speaker
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Dr Alex Drak
Industrial Water Treatment Expert - IDE Technologies
Audience Poll, Questions, and Answers
Coffee, Networking, and Innovation Showcase
MEASURING THE VALUE OF WATER
Maximising Sustainable Outcomes and Production Value by Setting Risk Based Water Targets
- Setting appropriate water targets and metrics based on risk
- Incorporating uncertainty and variability into water targets
- Understanding the value of water in production planning and leveraging technology
Speaker
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Blair Douglas
Head of Water - BHP Billiton
PANEL SESSION: Quantifying and Qualifying the Intrinsic Value of Water
- What is the business value of investing in a water strategy and innovative technology?
- How to create tangential value of water using metrics that the entire company understands
- Which data and metrics should be used to quantify the value of water?
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Troy Jones
Director of Water - Teck Resources -
Brendan O’Brien
Director, Water - Goldcorp -
Will Sarni
Founder and CEO - Water Foundry -
Andrew Watson
Vice President - Stantec
Buffet Lunch, Networking, and Innovation Showcase
INNOVATIVE TREATMENT SOLUTIONS
Reliable Process Water Solutions and Treatment of Complex Mine Discharge/Wastewater for Environmental Compliance
- Reverse osmosis efficiency that is produced on a modular scale for quick installation and start-up
- Reducing overall energy consumption through efficient technologies designed for sustainability that lowers operational expenditure year over year
- How to recover water from wastewater that is clean enough to be discharged or recycled back into the system for mining/process/future use for water conservation
Speakers
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Paul Begin
Chief Financial Officer - Continental Gold -
Ashwin Thakkar
Senior Sales Manager - Aquatech International
Controlling Calcium Sulphate Scale Formation in Mining Membrane Plants
- How many RO membrane plants are currently used in mining? Where are they and what are they used for?
- Research results of calcium sulphate solubility at different pH and in the presence of metals.
- Development of new antiscalants and cleaners to keep RO membranes clean and operating at maximum recovery even with acidic feed water.
Speaker
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Steve Chesters
Managing Director - Genesys International
Standardizing Acid Rock Drainage (ARD) Prediction and Mitigation
- Properly assessing the potential problems and risks of ARD with analytics to lower treatment costs for mining closure
- Creating a model technique that considers geochemistry and climate to control ARD
- How to limit ARD at the source through engineering and management controls
Speaker
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Jacob Croall
Senior Manager, Water Technology - Newmont Mining
Financial Assurance for Water Treatment
- Estimating water treatment financial assurance and asset retirement obligation
- Review of jurisdictional requirements
- Managing uncertainties and risk
Speaker
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Kristin Pouw
Senior Consultant, Water Management - SRK Consulting