Abstracts 2017

List of Abstracts Submitted for 9th Triennial AMD Workshop (a total of 54 abstracts have been received)

No.	Authors	Affiliation	Paper or Poster Title
1	D. Allen, M. North , S. Black, B. Price and N. Rothnie	MBS Environmental, 4 Cook Street, West Perth, WA, 6005 ChemCentre, Resources and Chemistry Precinct, Manning Road, Bentley, WA, 6102	Using Chromium Reducible Sulfur to Predict AMD
6	A. Baisley, M. O’Kane, and S. Pearce	O'Kane Consultants, 200-1121 Centre Street NW Calgary, Alberta Canada T2E7K6	Are You Doing All You Could to Optimise your Closure Alternatives?
18	S. Black, B. Price, N. Rothnie, R. Sharma, R. Marton and D. Allen	ChemCentre, Resources and Chemistry Precinct, Bentley, WA, BHP Billiton Minerals Australia, Perth, WA, MBS Environment, 4 Cook Street, West Perth, WA	Validation of Sequential Leaching Tests to Predict Potential Impacts of Low Sulfur Iron Ore Waste on Surface and Groundwater Quality
52	N. Bourgeot, J. Taylor, A. Sampaklis, N. Staheyeff, S. Pape, E. Hardjo, and M. Quiatol	Earth Systems, Hawthorn VIC, NSW Department of Planning and Environment, Maitland NSW	Controlling Acid and Metalliferous Drainage from Decommissioned Underground Mines
35	J. Chapman, J. Jones, K. Mandaran, B. Luinstra and Hendry	SRK Consulting (Australasia) Ltd Pty, Brisbane, Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa	Development of a NAF/PAF grade control programme for placement of a WRD cover
20	H. Christenson, J. Pope, D. Craw, Justin Johns, D. Trumm, N. Newman	CRL Energy Ltd, 97 Nazareth Ave, Christchurch, New Zealand, Geology Department, University of Otago, 360 Leith Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, Oceana Gold Ltd, Macraes, Otago 9483, New Zealand	Arsenic geochemistry in the Macraes Mine tailings dam
22	D. Cohen, Q. Chen, M. Andersen, A. Robertson D. Jones and B. Kelly	School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre, University of New South Wales, RGS Environmental Pty Ltd, DR Jones Environmental Excellence, 5Santos GLNG	Application of alkaline coal seam gas waters to remediate AMD from historical sulfide ore mining operations
32	R. Cornelius^,A. Parbhakar-Fox and D.R Cooke	ARC Industrial Hub for Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC), University of Tasmania, ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits (CODES), University of Tasmania	Geoenvironmental characterisation tools for the coreshed during early life-of-mine assessments
5	Samuel Costin	Global Aquatica	Treatment of acid rock drainage including removal of contaminants from a site
2	L. Desaunoy and D. Kirste	Simon Fraser University – Department of Earth Science, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada	Investigating the Geochemistry of Selenium in the Residual from Biological Wastewater Treatment at a Coal Mine
14	P. Ferguson, C. Wels, D. Jones, and T. Laurencont	Robertson GeoConsultants Inc., DR Jones Environmental Excellence, Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry and Resources	Rehabilitation planning at the former Rum Jungle mine site in northern Australia Part 2. Environmental Performance Assessment for the Preferred Rehabilitation Scenario
54	P. Ferguson, C. Wels, A. Trapp, N. Pesonen	Robertson GeoConsultants Inc., Vancouver, Canada. Nyrstar Myra Falls, Campbell River, Canada.	Predicted (Post-Closure) Contaminant Loads and Water Quality Conditions in Myra Creek, Nyrstar Myra Falls (Canada)
30	A. Garvie and D. Kentwell	SRK Consulting (Australasia) Melbourne, SRK Consulting (Australasia) Sydney	The Influence of Sample Numbers and Distribution on the Assessment of AMD potential
15	W. Germs, G. Race, R. Green, R. Marton	ERM, Sydney, ERM, Melbourne, Rio Tinto, Perth, BHP Billiton, Perth	Developing Pilbara Pit Lake Analogues to Inform Closure Considerations
31	S. Gilmour, A. Parbhakar-Fox, L. Jackson, D.R. Cooke	ARC Industrial Hub for Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC), University of Tasmania, ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits (CODES), University of Tasmania	Geochemical and mineralogical characterisation of a tailings-rich sediment bank, King River, Tasmania
21	R. Green, C. Mather, C. Kleiber, S. Lee, M.Lund M.Blanchette	Rio Tinto Iron Ore, 152-156 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA 6000, Mine Water and Environment Research Centre (Miwer), Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, WA 6027	Waste not, want not – Using waste hay to improve pit lake water quality
36	A. Hendry, B. Luinstra, J. Jones, K. Mandaran and J. Chapman	SRK Consulting (Australasia) Ltd Pty, Perth, Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa	The practicalities and implementation of a NAF/NAP grade control programme for placement of a WRD cover
43	L. Jackson, A. Parbhakar-Fox, N. Fox, DR. Cooke, AC. Harris and E. Savinova	Transforming the Mining Value Chain, ARC Industrial Transformation Hub, University of Tasmania, Discipline of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania, Newcrest Mining Ltd, Melbourne, Corescan Pty Ltd, Ascot WA	Intrinsic Neutralisation Potential from Automated Drillcore Logging for Improved Geoenvironmental Domaining
13	D. Jones, P. Ferguson, and T. Laurencont	DR Jones Environmental Excellence, Robertson GeoConsultants Inc., Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry and Resources	Rehabilitation planning at the former Rum Jungle mine site in northern Australia Part 1. Physical and Geochemical Characteristics of Mine Wastes and Inferred Source Terms
26	A. Kemp and T. Laurencont	O’Kane Consultants Pty. Ltd, Department of Primary Industry and Resources, Northern Territory	Setting the Benchmark: Re-building Rum Jungle waste rock dumps to mitigate existing and limit long-term AMD risk and environmental liability
49	M. Landers, B. Usher, and P. Marianelli	RGS Environmental Pty Ltd, Sunnybank Hills, QLD, Klohn Crippen Berger, South Brisbane, Glencore McArthur River Mine Pty Ltd, Brisbane	Classification of Waste Rock for McArthur River Mine, Northern Territory
11	C. Linklater, A Watson, A Hendry, J Chapman, J. Crosbie and P. Defferrard	SRK Consulting (Australasia) Pty Ltd, MMG Limited, Century Mining Limited	Pit lake water quality modelling at Century Mine
45	Z. Liu, C. Huang, L. Ma and KA. Morin	National Research Council Canada, Minesite Drainage Assessment Group, Surrey BC, Canada	Observations and Explanations from the Monitoring Data of Equity Silver Mine, Canada
47	Z. Liu, C. Huang, L. Ma, E. Dy and Z. Xie	National Research Council Canada	Experimental Models of Metal Leaching for Scaling-Up to the Field
27	R. McLaine, A. Parbhakar-Fox, N. Fox, M. Reid	ARC Industrial Hub for Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC), University of Tasmania, Co-operative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE), University of Tasmania, Mineral Resources Tasmania	Determining bioaccessibility risks at the historic Aberfoyle tailings site, Northeast Tasmania: opportunities for effective rehabilitation
34	B. Mooney, B. Paull, T. Lewis, A. Parbhakar-Fox	Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS), University of Tasmania, School of Physical Sciences (Chemistry), University of Tasmania, Industrial Hub for Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC), University of Tasmania	Physicochemical Properties of Iron Oxides Opportunities for useful AMD products?
7	M. O’Kane, P. Weber, M. McKeown, Dave Christensen, Seth Mueller, Belinda Bird	O’Kane Consultants Inc., Calgary, Canada, O’Kane Consultants (NZ) Ltd., Canterbury, New Zealand O’Kane Consultants Inc., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Boliden Mineral AB. SE 936 81, Boliden, Sweden New South Wales Minerals Council	Forecasting long term water quality after closure: Boliden Aitik Cu mine
4	Omy T. Ogbughalu, Andrea R. Gerson, Gujie Qian, Roger St. C. Smart, Russell C. Schumann, Nobuyuki Kawashima, Rong Fan, Jun Li and Michael D. Short	School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia Blue Minerals Consultancy, Middleton, SA 5213, Australia Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia Levay and Co. Environmental Services, Edinburgh, SA	The link between microbial diversity and AMD prevention at-source
28	A. Parbhakar-Fox, J. Glen, D. Kemp	ARC Industrial Hub for Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC), University of Tasmania, ALS Metallurgical Laboratories, ALS Global	Extraction of cobalt from historic sulphide tailings using bioleaching
29	A. Parbhakar-Fox and R. Clifton and N. Fox	ARC Industrial Hub for Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC), University of Tasmania,	Evaluating applications of bed and fly ash for controlling acid and metalliferous drainage- examples from Tasmanian mine wastes
33	A. Parbhakar-Fox, T. Lewis P. Hamill, A. Wakefield, R Botrill and J. Parnell	ARC Industrial Hub for Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC), University of Tasmania, Discipline of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences, University of Tasmania, Mineral Resources Tasmania	Geoenvironmental characterisation of the abandoned Scotia Mine, north east Tasmania: implications for management practices
8	J. Pearce, S. Pearce, and R. Marton	O’Kane Consultants BHP Billiton Iron Ore	Why variable oxidation rates are needed for the prediction of AMD from dynamic waste rock dumps
24	S. Pearce , M. Barteaux and J. Pearce	O’Kane Consultants	Gas flux and the linkage with predicting AMD loads in waste rock dumps, and designing practical engineering solutions – field based case studies
9	A. Robertson, G. Maddocks and M. Landers	RGS Environmental Pty Ltd, PO Box 3091, Sunnybank South, QLD 4109	Geochemical characterisation of mine wastes: does it matter?
17	T. Rohde_,K. Hardie and N Jamson	EMM Consulting Pty Limited, Brisbane, Endeavor Operations Pty Ltd	Creating opportunities: improved rehabilitation outcomes through smart cover design at Endeavor Mine, NSW
10	D.A. Salmon	Amanzi Consulting	Guidelines developed for planning opencast coal mine final void closure and relinquishment
3	M.G. Sephton and J.A. Webb	Environmental Geosciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3073	Portland Cement Applications to control acid mine drainage generation from waste rocks
25	A. Sexton, A. Butler, J Chapman and T Anderson	Ernest Henry Mine (Glencore Copper Assets), Cloncurry, QLD, NRA Environmental Consultants, Cairns, QLD, CSRK Consulting, Brisbane, QLD	An Integrated Approach to Closure of Landforms Containing Potentially Acid Forming Waste Rock in North-West Queensland
38	A. Sexton and M. Edraki	Ernest Henry Mine, Cloncurry, Australia, Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, SMI	Optimisation of Site Hydro-Geochemical Data for Optimum Closure of a Tailings Storage Facility
39	G. Southam	School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland	Bacteria-Mineral Interactions at Sulphide Mineral Surfaces
12	R. Strand, J. Tuff and B. Usher	Klohn Crippen Berger, Level 5 Peel street South Brisbane	Hydrogeochemical modelling approaches for the dynamic nature of mine sites
51	J. Taylor, S. Winchester, M. Tyler, K. Ehrig, J. Waters and F. Beavis	Earth Systems, Hawthorn VIC, GHD, Sydney, BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide	Converting Chemistry to Mineralogy for Acid and Metalliferous Drainage Risk Management
53	J. Taylor, S. Pape, N. Murphy, N. Bourgeot, and E. Hardjo	Earth Systems, Hawthorn VIC	Kinetic Testwork for Mine Planning, Metal Recovery, Environmental and OH&S Management and Mine Closure
44	Y. Tian, R. Strand, G. Wang, J. Tuff and B. Usher	Klohn Crippen Berger, South Brisbane	Water Quality Predictions Under Highly Variable Moisture and Temperature: A Case Study on the Importance of Thermodynamics
48	B. Usher, M. Landers, and P. Marianelli	Klohn Crippen Berger, South Brisbane, RGS Environmental Pty Ltd, Sunnybank Hills, QLD, Glencore McArthur River Mine Pty Ltd, Brisbane	Multiple Kinetic Testing Methods to Understand the Geochemistry of Waste at McArthur River Mine, Northern Territory
46	D. Villa Gomez, H. Hoffman, A. Kerr, B. Ryan, M. Peces, and G. Southam	School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland	Integrated Leaching/Bioleaching and Sulphate Reducing Processes for Metal Recovery and Treatment of Mine Tailings
50	G. Wang and B. Usher	Klohn Crippen Berger, South Brisbane	Three-Dimensional Unsaturated Flow and Heat Modelling for Mine Waste Facilities
23	AP. Ware and R. T. Watkins	University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, Environmental Geochemistry Services, Bibra Lake, Australia	The Role of AMD in Pilbara Iron Ore: mobilisation and fate of trace elements during surface and groundwater flow
16	A Watson, C Linklater, J Chapman and R Marton	SRK Consulting (Australasia) Pty Ltd, BHP Billiton Iron Ore Pty Ltd	Weathered sulfidic waste laboratory-scale tests for assessing water quality in backfilled pits
42	P. Weber, J. Pearce, W. Olds, K. Malloch, and H. Christenson	O’Kane Consultants (NZ) Ltd, Canterbury, NZ, O’Kane Consultants Pty Ltd, Perth, Australia, CRL Energy Ltd, Christchurch, NZ	Setting AMD Treatment Objectives
40	DJ. Williams	The University of Queensland	Rehabilitation Options for Potentially Contaminating Coal Tailings Stored in Pits
41	DJ. Williams and C. Zhang	The University of Queensland	Instrumented Column Testing of Potentially Contaminating Tailings Under Field Climatic Conditions
37	GW. Wilson, B. Wickland and B. Weeks	Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Golder Associates, Vancouver	Designing Tailings and Waste Rock Systems for Chemical and Physical Stability
19	Yan Zhou, Michael D. Short, Jun Li, Russell C. Schumann, Roger St.C. Smart,Andrea R. Gerson and Gujie Qian	Natural and Built Environments Research Centre, School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Levay & Co. Environmental Services, Edinburgh, SA 5111, Blue Minerals Consultancy, Middleton, SA 5213, Australia	The formation of aluminate-doped surface passivating layer on pyrite for effective acid and metalliferous drainage control