Timings reflect Eastern Time
30 September 2020
Exhibition opens
Welcome from Water in Mining 2020
CLIMATE CHANGE & SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES
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
Speaker
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Shirley Neault
Manager, Environment and Systems - Hudbay Minerals
Climate risk management in the mining sector
- Climate risk and extreme events: the effect on water management
- Adaptation management at watershed level
- Examples of the use of telemetric sensors to manage climate risk and natural hazards
Speaker
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Gabriel Castillo
PhD Candidate - Mining Engineering - University of British Columbia
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
Speakers
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José N. De Piérola C
Manager of Water Resources - Southern Peru Copper Corp -
Shirley Neault
Manager, Environment and Systems - Hudbay Minerals -
Gabriel Castillo
PhD Candidate - Mining Engineering - University of British Columbia
BREAKOUT SESSIONS – participants should choose to attend session A OR session B
BREAKOUT A: DESALINATION
- How to ‘do’ desalination
- What are the technical challenges and solutions?
- Reliability, price and sustainability considerations
Speaker
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Borja Blanco
Board Member - IDA
BREAKOUT B: HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
- How can the mining industry better tackle human rights issues?
- What problems do we still need to address?
SPEED NETWORKING – meet and interact with your peers face-to-face
EXHIBITION ZONE – engage with new and existing partners and solutions
Take a break
THE FUTURE OF WATER IN MINING
Welcome back
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
- New business model to sustainably supply water for mining in Chile: BHP´s Spence desalination plant based on a Build Own Operate and Transfer Contract
- Setting an industry benchmark by securing water through desalination using renewable energy sources
Speaker
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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