Timings reflect Canadian Eastern Time
27 April 2023
Registration, refreshments and networking
Welcome from the chair
Keynote: Building a circular economy from mine waste
Exploring how the industry can unlock value in waste products to safely extract products. How does water management strategy need to develop to mitigate risk to local communities, wildlife and surrounding environment?
Speaker
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Andre Gagnon
Director, Tailings & Geotechnical Engineering - Lundin Mining
RESOURCE RECOVERY & CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Incentivizing the reprocessing of tailings, who carries the risk?
Unearthing the crucial points under analyses in applications to gain permitting approval. Analyzing the need for risk and closure responsibility to be shared to encourage innovative ways to realize economic benefit.
Question and answer session
Permitting to meet demand: what needs to change?
As a demand for rare earth minerals rises to meet net-zero targets, regulators, mining companies and the supply chain need to cooperate to drive efficiency in permitting
- How can collaboration drive efficiency in the permitting process?
- What should be considered when permitting the reprocessing of tailings?
- What is the regulators role in incentivizing a circular economy?
Networking and refreshments break
BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Pick a topic of your choice
Stream A: Culture, Community & Social License
Stream B: Treatment Technologies & Innovations
Implementing a robust stewardship strategy
Combining global best practice to develop a cohesive strategy which prioritizes communities at site level. Gaining company buy-in and lining up with governance policy.
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Estrella Guadalupe Martinez Ramos
Manager, Water Management - Peñoles
Optimising treatment works to treat 3million m3 of water
Overcoming operational challenges to achieve required treatment volumes following a one in one hundred precipitation year. Outlining the optimisation works to increase capacity of existing treatment infrastructure.
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Karien Scheepers
Metallurgist EIT - New Gold Inc.
Overcoming growing social conflict
Sharing lessons learnt from managing breakouts of social unrest directly affecting mine operation.
Nature-based solution to treating in perpetuity
Question & answer session
Case study: Bio treatment study
Providing an update on treating water for mercury. Sharing early testing results and critical lessons learned.
Roundtable discussions: Achieving water stewardship
- How can our industry avoid virtue signaling?
- Should the mining industry have site/regional approaches to stewardship or a globally strategy? Why?
Question and answer session
Feedback session
Sit down lunch and networking
OPERATIONAL MINE TO MINE CLOSURE
Repurposing abandoned coal mines to provide green heat
Showcasing how the UK are taking advantage of abandoned, closed mines to heat homes. Explaining how the existing infrastructure can provide the source for new head network developments.
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Richard Bond
Innovation and Engagement Director - The Coal Authority
Long term closure planning
Delving into the importance of forward planning and stakeholder engagement to ensure a successful closure. Exploring the liability, responsibility and security of legacy mines regarding environmental impact, considering indigenous communities and local taxpayers.
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Bill Pain
Environmental Scientist - Government of the Northwest Territories
Case study: Closing Flin Flon mine
Transitioning an operational mine and surrounding assets into closure and planning for changes in water flow and seasons. Unveiling modelling work used to predict and assist with building strategies to closure.
Speaker
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Shirley Neault
Manager, Environment and Systems - Hudbay Minerals
Question and answer session
Refreshments and networking break
ESTABLISHING COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIES
Improving operational performance through new strategy
Implementing strategy based of ICMM frameworks. Benchmarking where Goldfields are now and the obstacles that needed be overcome to create change across the whole business and site-specific operations.
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Nosimo Macatsha
Group Head of Water Stewardship - Gold Fields
Gaining board level buy in to develop a successful target programme across the Rio Tinto
Explaining the journey of setting targets and executing change through improved transparency of EDG across 60 operation globally. Sharing lessons learnt from gaining board approval to disclose asset level information publicly.
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Scott Diggles
Global Water Lead - Rio Tinto