AMD Mini Symposium - Program
The International Network for Acid Prevention (INAP) and The University of Queensland's Sustainable Minerals Institute are hosting a mini symposium on Acid and Metalliferous Drainage Management on 2 May 2019.
The symposium is an opportunity to meet the INAP board members and listen to selected talks from industry, academia and government representatives on a variety of AMD related topics.
Final Program
| Time | Presenter | Organisation | Title |
| 8:45 - 9:10 | Gilles Tremblay and Mansour Edraki | INAP and Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ | Welcome; INAP, ICARD 2021 and AMD Workshop updates |
| 9:10 - 9:35 | Oskar Kadletz | Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (DNRME) | Presentation from DNRME on abandoned mines |
| 9:35 - 10:00 | Rosalind Green | Rio Tinto | Strategies for Managing Chemically Reactive Mineral Waste at Rio Tinto Iron Ore Mines |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | Alessandro Nepomuceno | Kinross | Managing ARD in a Gold Mine in the Vicinity of Paracatu Town, MG State, Brazil |
| MORNING TEA | |||
| 10:55 - 11:00 | Neville Plint | Director Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ | Welcome to UQ and SMI |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | David Williams | Geotechnical Engineering Centre, UQ | Just how effective have soil covers been in limiting net percolation of rainfall and consequent AMD? |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Alan Robertson | RGS Environmental | RGS 2019 Case Studies: Geoenvironmental Metalliferous Block Model and 3D WRD Scheduling and Design |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Jeff Taylor | Earth Systems | A progress report on demonstrating pollution control from underground mines (The Inert Atmosphere Technology) |
| 12:15 - 12:35 | Pablo Ledezma | Advanced Water Management Centre, UQ | Targeted metal recovery during simultaneous treatment of acid mine drainage |
| LUNCH | |||
| 1:05 - 1:25 | Anita Parbhakar-Fox | Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ | Applications of geometallurgy across the mining value chain |
| 1:25 - 1:45 | Jared Robertson | O’Kane | Evolving kinetic testing methods to address risk for site-specific, sustainable closure planning |
| 1:45 - 2:10 | Gordon Southam | School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, UQ | Geomicrobiology and AMD |
| 2:10 - 2:30 | Anthony van der Ent | Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ | Metallophytes and hyperaccumulator plants for phytoremediation |
| 2:30 - 2:55 | Maria Rosier | Department of Environment and Science (DES) | An overview of the closure and rehabilitation legislative reforms and the new financial provisioning scheme |
| AFTERNOON TEA | |||
| 3:20 - 3:40 | Mansour Edraki | Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ | Predicting saline drainage from coal mine spoils |
| 3:40 - 4:00 | Artem Golev | Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ | Tailings desulfurization for mined land rehabilitation |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Bruce Kelly | INAP | Discussion and Conclusion |