Timings reflect Canadian Eastern Time (UTC/GMT-4)
29 September 2020
Event opens
Head to the BHP coffee area, speed network, or visit the exhibition booths
Welcome from Water in Mining 2020
DELIVERING TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS & TACKLING RISK
Leveraging emerging water treatment technologies for step-change reduction in water risk
- Maximising process/mine water reuse
- Longer term closure water resource management
- Brines and AMD treatment
Speaker
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Brad Smith
Principal Innovation - BHP
Ceramic ultrafiltration membranes in coal mine dewatering
- Reduced system complexity and improved water recovery
- Long lifetime and robustness against harsh operating environments
- How it’s proven in coal mine dewatering and can be extended broadly to mine dewatering
Speaker
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Carlo Patteri
Business Leader Industrial Water - Nanostone Water
How can we better connect as an industry to deliver technical solutions?
Speaker
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Lora Field
Team Leader - Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
MAXH2O Desalter as a membrane based solution for mine affected water reuse and discharge limit compliance
• Treating mine affected water to be reused or to comply with discharge regulation
• How to reach high recoveries while maintaining minimal operating costs
• Eliminating water chemistry limitations when using membranes based solutions for mine affected water
Speaker
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Matan Alper
Product Manager - IDE Techologies
Questions and answers
BREAKOUT SESSIONS – participants should choose to attend session A OR session B
BREAKOUT A: TREATMENT SOLUTIONS
How can we get more out of treatment facilities? Are they working effectively?
- Where is the potential in mine sites becoming their own treatment facilities?
- Challenges in treating high TDS brines
- Managing impurities such as Se, CN, SO4, Cl in the WW water
Speaker
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Konstantin Volchek
Section Head, Water Treatment - Natural Resources Canada
Assessing the hydraulic behaviour and flow characteristics of Mine Water Treatment Schemes
- Protecting water supplies locally
- Optimising and retrofitting facilities
- Identifying critical challenges faced in performing tracer studies in high salinity
Speaker
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Dr Vasiliki Ioannidou
Lecturer in Water Resources, School of Engineering and Built Environment - Birmingham City University
BREAKOUT B: WATER STEWARDSHIP
What do we mean by stewardship?
- Where are the collaboration opportunities?
- What approaches are being taken to water stewardship?
- What would stewardship mean from different perspectives?
Speakers
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Nadja Kunz
Canada Research Chair in Mine Water Management and Stewardship - University of British Columbia -
Lesley Warren
Director, Lassonde Institute of Mining - University of Toronto
Questions and answers
SPEED NETWORKING – meet and interact with your peers face-to-face
EXHIBITION ZONE – engage with new and existing partners and solutions
Grab a bite, network or meet the exhibitors
Welcome back
WATER MANAGEMENT & EFFICIENCY: CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES
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
Speaker
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Jerry Zozo
Superintendent - Kibali Gold Mine
A soil first platform for dust neutral mining
- What is dust neutrality?
- Solutions to achieving dust neutrality
- Water balance impact on dust neutrality
Speaker
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Michael Warren
CEO - Earth Alive Clean Technologies
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
Speaker
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Sylvie St Jean
Environment Manager - New Gold