April 23 2020
Registration, networking and exhibition
Introduction from the Conference Chair
Speaker
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Dr Hubert Fleming
Independent (previously Head, Water Management, Anglo American)
CLIMATE CHANGE & SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES
Incorporating more responsible water management practices
- Social risk issues
- Promoting sustainable water management
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Dr Hubert Fleming
Independent (previously Head, Water Management, Anglo American)
Water management in a scarcity environment
- Lessons from Peru
- Where are the opportunities for shared global learning?
Speaker
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José N. De Piérola C
Manager of Water Resources - Southern Peru Copper Corp
The value of Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) environmental protocols and frameworks
- Going beyond regulatory compliance
- Using MAC’s TSM water protocol
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Shirley Neault
Manager, Environment and Systems - Hudbay Minerals
Questions and panel discussion: the threat of climate change on water in mining
- How can the mining industry become a sustainability leader?
- How is climate change affecting business planning?
- Tackling flooding and drought: different approaches
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Brendan O’Brien
Director, Water - Newmont Goldcorp
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
WATER MANAGEMENT & EFFICIENCY: CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES
Formalising water targets for the next 5 years: learnings and ambitions
- Water usage and reporting opportunities
- Assessing the maturing of the process
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Scott Diggles
Principal Advisor – Water and Environment - Rio Tinto
Water efficiency and recycling in mining
- Responsible mine water policy and liabilities
- Characterization of the mine water balance
- Water use efficiency in mining and recycling optimization
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Jerry Zozo
Superintendent - Kibali Gold Mine
Water management at the Rainy River Mine: going from drought to flood in weeks
- Water management tools and approaches developed by RRM
- Minimizing flow loss and maximizing the benefits of additional stream flow
- Re-thinking how water is managed on site to render RRM nimble and able to react quickly to shifting weather regimes
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Sylvie St Jean
Environment Manager - New Gold
Live polling, questions and answers
Fork buffet lunch, networking and exhibition
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
BREAKOUT STREAMS: TECHNICAL & STRATEGIC
Choose to attend either a technical or strategic breakout session and brainstorm key challenges with your peers in an interactive roundtable format. Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis’
TECHNICAL – DESALINATION
- How to ‘do’ desalination
- What are the technical challenges and solutions?
- Reliability, price and sustainability considerations
STRATEGIC – HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
- How can the mining industry better tackle human rights issues?
- What problems do we still need to address?
Representative, Newmont Goldcorp
3:00 pm
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
THE FUTURE OF WATER IN MINING
BHP Chile water strategy
- Securing a sustainable water supply for one of the world’s largest Copper mines located in the driest place on earth
- Groundwater extraction to desalination: looking to a more sustainable future
- Enabling BHP to become water secure and setting an industry benchmark
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Sebastian Greco
Head of Strategic Planning - BHP
Better tools, better models, better stewardship
- Opening the black box of water quality through multidisciplinary collaborative research
- Bio-mines and bio-intelligent organisms for mining impacted water
- Paving the way to a more sustainable, efficient and cost-effective future for the industry
Speaker
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Lesley Warren
Director, Lassonde Institute of Mining - University of Toronto