The final list will depend on the results of the full paper reviews, which means that several of the papers listed here might not appear in the symposium programme. O stands for Oral, and P for Poster presentation.
1 Mine Water Issues & Innovative Mining Methods
Speakers in this session will present existing or evolving methodologies that prevent the pollution of mine water during operations, produce a smaller water footprint and limit impacts on surrounding ecosystems.
Thursday Morning & Afternoon
| Author | Title |
| Adams, D. Jack; Peoples, Michael | New Electrobiochemical Reactor and Water Gas Mixing Technology for Removal of Metals, Nitrate, and BOD (O) |
| Akoachere, Richard Ayuk II | Thermal Dilution Test: A New Method For The Determination Of Fracture Positions, Flow Zones And Ground Water Velocities In Aquifers, Using Temperature As A Tracer In Single Wells (O) |
| Bender, Michael; Long, Dejiang; Fitch, Murray | Oil Sands Mining Water Use and Management (O) |
| Bhattacharya, Jayanta; Roy, Arup | Synthesis of Ca(OH)2 nanoparticles for rapid treatment of mine waste water (P) |
| Cordeiro, José Roberto Centeno; Castro, Leonardo Mitre Alvim de; Souza, Ana Katiuscia Pastana de; Oliveira, Gilcimar Pires Cabral | A Water Resources Management System as a tool to guarantee the water supply of an iron ore mining project in Brazil (O) |
| Jenk, Ulf; Michalek, Bedrich; Meyer, Jürgen; Paul, Michael; Zabojnik, Pavol; Lusk, Karel | Hydrochemical Development in Flooded Uranium Mines – A comparison between the Mines at Olši (Czech Republic) and Pöhla (Germany) (P) |
| Johnston, David Neil; Potter, Hugh A B | Abandoned Mines and the UK water environment, progress towards a national strategy (O) |
| Jolas, Peter; Mansel, Holger; Müller, Mike Siegfried; Struzina, Michael; Drebenstedt, Carsten | Dewatering of Multi-aquifer Unconsolidated Rock Opencast Mines – Alternative Solutions with Horizontal Wells (O) |
| Lemière, Bruno | ENAG-BRGM (P) |
| Lind, Helena; Sokman, Kalmer | Dynamic groundwater model of Estonian oil shale mining area towards to innovative system (O) |
| Mirgorodsky, D.; Ollivier, D.; Merten, D.; Büchel, G.; Bergmann†, H.; Willscher, Sabine; Wittig, J.; Jablonski, L.; Werner, P. | Phytoremediation experiments on a low contaminated test field of a former uranium mining site (O) |
| Romano Neto, Roberto; Crocetta, Michael Salvador; Ronconi de Souza, Maria Gisele; Rocha, Edilane; Zanuz, Marcio; Baldoni Gomes, Cleber Jose | Altogether Acid Mine Drainage and Sewage Treatment in Coal Region of Santa Catarina State - Brazil (P) |
| Veiga Marisco, Lenisa; Candiota Tubino, Rejane Maria | Metals removal possibility of an Acid Mine Drainage using the residue of the agate industry process, as adsorbent (P) |
| Verburg, Rens; Chatwin, Terry | The Global Acid Rock Drainage Guide (GARD Guide) – Best Management Practices for Acid Prevention (O) |
| Willscher, Sabine; Hertwig, T.; Frenzel, M.; Felix, M. | Environmental impact of differently remediated hard coal overburden and tailings dumps a few decades after remediation (O) |
| Wu, Qiang | Investigations of retarded groundwater bursting along fault zones in seam floor in coal mines (O) |
| Wu, Qiang | Optimal Models Of Coal Mine Water Management (P) |
| Wu, Qiang | Prediction of groundwater inrush into coal mines from aquifers underlying the coal seams in China: Application of vulnerability index method to Zhangcun Coal Mine, China (O) |
| Wu, Qiang | Prediction of groundwater inrush into coal mines from aquifers underlying the coal seams in China: Vulnerability index system construction and evaluation (P) |
| Wu, Qiang | Emergency responses to water disasters in coalmines, China (P) |
| Younger, Paul Lawrence; González, Gerardo; Amezaga, Jaime M. | Water management issues in the underground gasification of coal and the subsequent use of the voids for long-term carbon dioxide storage. (O) |
2 Mine Water Engineering
Papers given under this topic will deal with engineering infrastructure, such as pumps, dams, groundwater diversions, and pipes which direct mine water through or around the mining operation to treatment and finally to receiving water bodies with minimal impact. It will also include innovative solutions for desing of on-going and final reclamation schemes which will be of benefit to local communities.
Monday Afternoon
| Author | Title |
| Castro, Leonardo Mitre Alvim de; Cordeiro, José Roberto Centeno | A Water Resources Management System using the hydrologic potential of the tailings dam on iron ore mining (P) |
| Demetriou, John; Dimitriou, Dimitrios | Mechanical Energy Losses along an Inclined Hydraulic Jump in Mine Water Engineering (P) |
| Fernández-Rubio, Rafael; Lorca Fernández, David | Artificial recharge of groundwater in mining (O) |
| Junghans, Udo; Arndt, Olaf | Results and experiences using Grid-based optimization in groundwater management (O) |
| Pust, Christopher; Lilja, Göran; Scholz, Günter; Merkel, Broder | Advanced Mobile Inlake Technology (AMIT) – an efficient process for neutralisation of acid pit lakes (O) |
| Rüde, Thomas R.; Banning, Andre; Klauder, Wiebke; Roger, Sebastian; Vinzelberg, Gero | Improving the effectiveness of wells for lignite mine dewatering (O) |
| Soni, Abhay K.; Khond, M. V. | Impact of Mining on Water: A Case Study of Rajhara Mechanized Iron Ore Mine, Chhattisgarh, India (P) |
| Spychak, Yuriy N. | Elimination of Karst flow to Potassium Open Pit in Western Ukraine (O) |
| Terblanche, Dries | Process Water Management Strategy At Obuasi Mine (O) |
| Warrender, Ruth; Bowell, Rob; Dey, Matt; Littler, James; Pearce, Nick; Perkins, Bill; Sapsford, Devin; Williams, Keith | Limitations of engineering passive mine water treatment systems using adsorbent materials (O) |
| Weyer, Jürgen | CO2 in mine water and mine rescue exercise in the adit „Rothschönberger Stollen“ (O) |
3 Mine Water Treatment – Active Systems
If mine water becomes polluted, treatment is necessary before it is either discharged into receiving water bodies or used for other purposes, such as cooling, fire suppression, cleaning equimpent, or as drinking water. This session will deal with the techniques used in active mine water treatment.
Monday Afternoon & Tuesday Morning
| Author | Title |
| Asapo, Emmanuel Sesofia; Coles, Cynthia Anne | Batch and Kinetic Studies of Ni and Co Adsorption on Highly Humified Newfoundland Peat (O) |
| Beckingham, Neil | Treating the Untreatable (P) |
| Clark, John Peter | Treatment of Mine Site Runoff Containing Suspended Solids Using Sedimentation Ponds – A Proposed Best Practice Guideline (O) |
| Clark, John Peter | Treatment of Mine Site Runoff Containing Suspended Solids Using Sedimentation Ponds – Optimizing Flocculant Addition to Ensure Discharge Compliance (P) |
| Cravotta III, Charles A; Parkhurst, D.L.; Means, B.; McKenzie, R.; Morris, H.; Arthur, W. | Using the Computer Program AMDTreat with a PHREEQC Titration Module to Compute Caustic Quantity, Effluent Quality, and Sludge Volume (O) |
| de Beer, M; Maree, J. P; Motaung, S; Bologo, L | Acid Mine Water Reclamation using the ABC Process (O) |
| Gast, Martin; Schöpke, Ralph; Walko, Manja; Benthaus, F.C. | Pilot System for in situ Aquifer Treatment by Microbial Sulfate Reduction (O) |
| Geroni, Jennifer Nia; Sapsford, Devin J; Williams, Keith; Watson, Ian | The potential for semi-passive mine water treatment by CO2 stripping at Ynysarwed, S.Wales (O) |
| Hamai, Takaya; Okumura, Masao; Yamaguchi, Syouichi; Matsushima, Eiji | A result of batch test to select effective co-precipitator of zinc containing mine drainage treatment (O) |
| Hu, Zhifei; Brooks, Jane | Factorial Analysis for Cyanide Destruction - A Bench-Scale Testing Study for Gold Mining Effluent Treatment (P) |
| Hu, Zhifei; Schmidt, Dave | Gold Mining Wastewater Treatment and Reuse with Actiflo® System (O) |
| Janneck, Eberhard; Arnold, Ingolf; Koch, Thomas; Meyer, Jürgen; Burghardt, Diana; Ehinger, Susan | Microbial synthesis of schwertmannite from lignite mine water and its utilization for removal of arsenic from mine waters and for production of iron pigments (O) |
| Karakatsanis, Kathy; Cogho, Vik | Drinking Water From Mine Water Using The HIPRO® Process - Optimum Coal Mine Water Reclamation Plant (O) |
| Mackie, Allison L; Farmer, Heather; Walsh, Margaret E | Mine Water Treatment with Cement Kiln Dust (O) |
| Madzivire, G.; Gitari, Wilson Mugera; Ojumu, T.; Balfour, G.; Misheer, N.; Petrik, L.F. | Removal of sulphates from South African mine water using coal fly ash (O) |
| Mey, Wendy Sue | Mine Water Reclamation and Re-Use - What's in it for me? (O) |
| Nason, Peter Alexander; Alakangas, Lena; Öhlander, Björn | The Effectiveness of Using Sewage Sludge as a Sealing Layer on Sulphide-rich Mine Tailings: A Pilot-scale Experiment, Northern Sweden (O) |
| Navratil, James D.; Akin, Andrew C. | Use of Recycled Concrete and Magnetite for Mine Water Treatment And Metal Recovery (O) |
| Noack, Greg; Clelland, Lawrence; Ross, Trevor; Donato, Randy | Controlling Surface Water at one of Canada’s Largest Base Metals Operations: From Legacy Challenges to Environmental Award Winner (O) |
| Oliphant, David; Christophersen, David | Three-Phase Mining Effluent Treatment Plant To Meet Stringent Standards (O) |
| Preuss, Volker; Schoepke, Ralph; Koch, Thomas | Reduction of Sulphate Load by Nanofiltration - Process Development in Bench Scale (O) |
| Reddy, Sarashree Traci; Lewis, Alison Emslie | Waste minimisation through recovery of salt and water from a hypersaline brine (O) |
| Silva, Renato Dantas; Rubio, Jorge | The Neutralization-Flocculation-Lamellar Settling (NF-LS)process in the treatment of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) from Coal Mines in South Brazil (O) |
| Silva, Rodrigo de Almeida; Vigânico, Eunice Maria; Arce, Isis; Schneider, Ivo André Homrich | Magnetite Production from Acid Mine Drainage (P) |
| Tsukamoto, Timothy K. | Rethinking Lime Delivery In Metals Precipitation: A Comparison of Lime Efficiencies and Sludge Characteristics between Treatment Systems for Metals-Impacted Water (P) |
| Warkentin, Doug; Chow, Norman; Nacu, Anca | Expanding Sulphide Use for Metal Recovery from Mine Waters (O) |
| Zinck, Janice; Fiset, Jean-François; Griffith, Wesley | Stability of Treatment Sludge in Various Disposal Environments: A Multi-Year Leaching Study (O) |
4 Mine Water Treatment – Passive Systems
Passive treatment is an environmentally friendly technology to treat mine water. Under normal operating conditions no chemicals are used and the only energy sources are natural: sun light, potential energy or ‘biological’ energy from plants or microorganism, wetlands for final polishing, limestone for natural buffering, or forest buffers for noise and dust suppression. Passive systems can also utilize “natural” chemical reactions between carbonate rich rocks and acidic waters.
Thursday Morning
| Author | Title |
| Behrooz, Mehrnoosh; Borden, Robert C | Controlling Sulfidic Tailings Oxidation with Surface Application of Crude Glycerol – Column Experiments (O) |
| Bhattacharya, Jayanta; Das, Bidus Kanti | Carbon drought and its effects on the biochemical events in a chemo-bioreactor treating Acid Mine Drainage (P) |
| Genty, Thomas; Bussière, Bruno; Benzaazoua, Mostafa; Zagury, J. Gérald | Passive treatment of high-iron acid mine drainage using sulphate-reducing bioreactors: comparison of eight reactive mixtures (O) |
| Gitari, Wilson Mugera; Petrik, Leslie F; Etchebers, Olivier; Key, David L; Okujeni, Charles | Inorganic contaminants attenuation in acid mine drainage by fly ash and its derivatives: Column Experiments. (O) |
| Hedin, Bob; Wolfe, Neil; Weaver, Ted | Sustained Treatment of AMD Containing Al and Fe3+ with Limestone Aggregate (O) |
| Jarvis, Adam Paul; Gandy, Catherine Jane | A case study of long-term geochemical evolution of coal waste rock drainage and its remediation (O) |
| Kalin, Margarete; Paulo, Carlos; Sleep, Brent | Proactive prevention of acid generation: reduction /inhibition of sulphide oxidation (O) |
| Koschorreck, Matthias; Wendt-Potthoff, Katrin; Friese, Kurt; Schultze, Martin; Geller, Walter | Application of whey to prevent re-oxidation in a passive anoxic in-lake reactor - success and failure (O) |
| Kruse, Natalie A S; Brewster, Kimberly; Riefler, Guy | A new look at designing steel slag leach beds (O) |
| Matthies, Romy; Aplin, A.C.; Boyce, Adrian J.; Jarvis, Adam P. | Tracking Dominant Alkalinity Sources in a Passive Mine Water Treatment System with Stable Carbon Isotopes (P) |
| Muhlbauer, Ritva; Raja, Sashnee; de Villiers, Zacharias Joseph Gerhard; Pulles, William; Clark, Sharon; Heath, Ralph | Implementation of a demonstation scale integrated managed passive treatment (IMPI) process (O) |
| Nairn, Robert W.; LaBar, J.A.; Strevett, K.A.; Strosnider, W.H.; Morris, D.; Neely, C.A.; Garrido, A.; Santamaria, B.; Oxenford, L.; Kauk, K.; Carter, S.; Furneaux, B. | A large, multi-cell, ecologically engineered passive treatment system for ferruginous lead-zinc mine waters (O) |
| Rait, Rachel; Trumm, Dave; Pope, James; Craw, Dave; Newman, Nigel; MacKenzie, Hayden | Adsorption of arsenic by acid mine drainage precipitates (O) |
| Sartz, Lotta; Bäckström, Mattias; Allard, Bert | On the neutralisation of ARD and acid generating waste rock by different alkalinity sources - carbonate and/or hydroxide (P) |
| Sartz, Lotta; Bäckström, Mattias; Karlsson, Stefan; Allard, Bert | Strategy for instant neutralisation and metal immobilisation in ARD (P) |
| Sartz, Lotta; Bäckström, Mattias; Karlsson, Stefan; Sjöberg, Viktor | ARD treatment in sequential filter sections - efficiency of different alkaline waste materials (O) |
| Shankie, Simon; Conly, Andrew George; Lee, Peter | Treatment of Sulphate Toxic Waters using Permeable Reactive Barriers: Batch and Flow-Through Reactor Experiments (P) |
| Sobolewski, Andre | Benefits of using liquid carbon sources for passive treatment systemsn (O) |
| Tsukamoto, Timothy K. | Semi-Passive Bioreactors for Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage (O) |
| Wade, Peter; Glass, Jenny | Fermentation microbes enhance performance of sulphate removal biotechnology (O) |
| Zinck, Janice | Overcoming Active Treatment Challenges (P) |
5 Mine Water Uses – Geothermal, Geochemistry, Biochemistry
Mine water can be used in several ways: as geothermal energy, as cooling liquid, in agriculture, for recreation, as drinking water, or enhancing streamflow. Papers presented in this session will focus on those mine water uses.
Thursday Afternoon
| Author | Title |
| Hidalgo Estévez, Carmen; Rey Arrans, Javier; Martínez López, Julián; Benavente Herrera, José | Evolution of mine water uses in the abandoned sulphide mines of the province of Jaén, Spain (P) |
| King, Mark; Perez, Waldo; Kieley, John; Reidel, Frits; Peralta, Eduardo | A Novel Form of "Mine Water": A Lithium Brine Deposit Under Dry Salt Lakes (Salares) in the Puna Region of Argentina (O) |
| Marqués, Antonio; Garcia-Ordiales, Efrén; Loredo, Jorge | Potential for Mine Water Reuse in an Abandoned Coal Mine in Northern Spain (P) |
| Plante, Benoît; Benzaazoua, Mostafa; Bussière, Bruno; Laflamme, Donald | Evaluation of the Ni-contaminated neutral drainage generation potential in the Tio mine waste rocks (O) |
| Vaute, Laurent; Le Pape, Pierre; Collon-Drouaillet, Pauline; Fabriol, Robert | Modelling the long-term evolution of groundwater's quality in a flooded iron-ore mine using a reactive transport pipe network model (O) |
6 Analysis of Mine Water and its Chemistry
Mine water chemistry usually differs significantly from the chemistry of ground and surface water. In this session the problems encountered with developing appropriate field sampling protocols, selection and deployment of real time monitors, laboratory analysis techniques and selection of tracers will be explored. It will also include modelling the results and consideration of legal and funding issues associated with long term monitoring after operations cease. The session also covers general aspects of mine water.
Tuesday Morning and Afternoon
| Author | Title |
| Alakangas, Lena Britt Inger; Öhlander, Björn; Nason, Peter Alexander | Declining trace element concentrations in groundwater in water saturated sulphide-rich tailings after remediation at Kristineberg, northern Sweden (O) |
| Braungardt, Charlotte Barbara; Butterfield, Martin; Wajrak, Magdalena | On-site minewater analysis: interference removal system for As analysis (O) |
| Cukrowska, Ewa Maria; Lusilao-Makiese, Julien; Tessier, Emmanuel; Amouroux, David | Mercury speciation in the gold-mine polluted environment – determination and development of predictive models for transformation, transport, immobilisation and retardation (O) |
| Frau, Franco; Cidu, Rosa | Short-term changes in water chemistry in the Baccu Locci stream (Sardinia, Italy) affected by past mining (O) |
| Godwin, Amy; Lee, Peter; Conly, Andrew George; Goold, Andrea | Predicting toxicity of future combined pit lakes at the former Steeprock Iron Mine near Atikokan, Ontario (O) |
| Grawunder, Anja; Lonschinski, Martin; Boisselet, Tsilla; Merten, Dirk; Büchel, Georg | Geochemical behaviour of rare earth elements in an AMD-influenced environment (O) |
| Ji, Sang Woo; Yim, Gil Jae; Cheong, Young Wook; Lee, Hyeon Seok; Min, Jeong Sik; Choi, Yong Suk; Bhattacharya, Jayanta | The Impact of water chemistry in the vicinity of Imgi mine on the pollution potential in the Soo young river, Korea (P) |
| Karlsson, Stefan; Allard, Bert; Bäckström, Mattias | Weathering mechanisms and composition of effluents from a sulphide mine waste deposit after covering – Twenty years of field data (O) |
| Lauzon, Nicolas | Mine Water Characterization for Probabilistic Modelling and Uncertainty Analysis (O) |
| Lemière, Bruno | Neutralisation distance of acid drainage and migration range of pollutants (O) |
| Müller, Mike; Eulitz, Katja | Characterizing Water Quality of Pit Lakes through Modeling (O) |
| Nešetřil, Kamil; Zeman, Josef | Arsenic occurrence and geochemical evolution of the abandoned ore mine Kaňk in the Czech Republic (O) |
| Nordstrom, D. Kirk; McCleskey, R. Blaine; Ball, James W. | Challenges in the analysis and interpretation of acidic waters (O) |
| Palumbo-Roe, Barbara; Banks, Vanessa; Chenery, Simon; Weiss, Dominik | Tracing sources and fate of zinc in a mining-impacted carbonated-hosted river catchment: insights from synoptic sampling, flow measurements and zinc isotopes (O) |
| Paul, Michael; Meyer, Jürgen; Jenk, Ulf; Jahn, Sylvia; Klemm, Werner | Investigation of arsenic emissions from flooded ore mines of the Westerzgebirge region, Saxony, Germany (O) |
| Schneider, Ivo André Homrich; Freitas, Ana Paula Pires; Schwartzbold, Albano | Algae in the Acid Mine Drainage on Santa Catarina Coal Field, Brazil (P) |
| Sjöberg, Viktor; Karlsson, Stefan; Sartz, Lotta | Release of vanadium from LD-slag by exposure to ARD (O) |
| Sjöblom, Åsa; Håkansson, Karsten; Allard, Bert | Particulate matter as scavanger and carrier of trace metals in simulated mine water (O) |
| Tutu, Hlanganani; Cukrowska, Ewa Maria; Weiersbye, Isabel M. | The role of efflorescent crusts as secondary sources of pollution in gold mining environments in the Witwatersrand Basin (O) |
| Usher, Brent; Strand, Roald; Jackson, Jim; Strachotta, Chris | Linking fundamental geochemistry and empirical observations for water quality predictions using Goldsim (O) |
| Younger, Paul Lawrence | Where there is no pH meter: estimating the acidity of mine waters by visual inspection (P) |
| Ziemkiewicz, Paul; Lovett, R.J. | Selenium leaching kinetics and in-situ control (O) |
7 Coal Mining – Underground Mining, Surface Mining
Coal is one of the most important solid fuels for electricity production and heating. Consequently, mine water issues for both, surface and underground coal mines are an important part of operational management, consultancy, and research. Speakers for this session will focus on mine water issues related to coal mining, such as acid mine drainage, pumping, prevention of pollution, geochemical aspects of coal mine drainage, encountering deep saline groundwaters, subsea mining, multi-seam mining, insitu gasification, and CO2 sequestration.
Thursday Afternoon
| Author | Title |
| Gautama, Rudy Sayoga; Ginting Jalu, Kusuma; Rachmanta, Anggana; Iin, Lestari | Weathering Behaviour of overburden and overburden-coal ash blending in relation to overburden management for acid mine drainage prevention ini coal surface mine (O) |
| Gossel, Wolfgang; Stollberg, Reiner; Wycisk, Peter | Modelling of environmental impacts of 140 years of open pit lignite mining and chemical industry on groundwater contaminants in the Bitterfeld area (Germany) (O) |
| Halir, Josef; Zizka, Lukas | The issues of the self-fill aquifer in the North Bohemian Brown Coal Basin (P) |
| Kruse, Natalie A S; Kerber, Robert; Brewster, Kimberly; McCosker, Loraine | A road to progress? The impacts of cutting a new highway through the heavily mined hills of Southeast Ohio (P) |
| Marchand, Geneviève; Waterhouse, John Douglas | Mudstone Depressurisation behavior in an open pit coal mine, Indonesia (O) |
| Singh, R.N.; Reddish, D.; Stace, Rod; Pathan, A.G.; Doulati-Ardejani, F. | Geotechnical And Hydrogeological Appraisal Of The Thar Open Cut Mining Project (O) |
| Sun, Yajun; Xu, Zhimin; Dong, Qinghong; Liu, Shucai | Safety Evaluation for Mining Under the Xiaolangdi Reservoir (P) |
| Vermeulen, Petrus Daniel; Dennis, Ingrid | The assessment of mine rebound and decanting in deeper coal mines (P) |
| Wang, Changshen; Miao, Xiexing; Bai, Haibo; Sun, Yajun; Liu, Shucai | Mine Water Issues in China (O) |
| Zizka, Lukas; Halir, Josef | Groundwater flowing in the forefield of the ČSA mine (North Bohemian Brown Coal Basin in the Czech Republic) (P) |
8 Mine Closure – Coal, Metal
Mine closure has become an important environmental issue worldwide. To ensure that mines are closed in a way that long term pollution of receiving water courses is minimized, special techniques have been developed in recent years. This session will address mine closure strategies in the view of mine water and related aspects of subsidence, reclamation bonding, long term monitoring, meeting a changing regulatory framework, public perception issues and impact of a changing climate.
Monday Afternoon
| Author | Title |
| Breckenridge, Larry | Evapotranspiration Caps for Mine Waste Closure – Case Studies in Extreme Environments (O) |
| Cidu, Rosa; Frau, Franco | Natural attenuation of contaminants in mine drainage at abandoned mining sites (O) |
| Clark, Sharon; Muhlbauer, Ritva | Mine Closure Water Management: Choosing the Right Alternative within a Changing Environment (O) |
| Dickin, Rob; Mills, R.; Bright, D.; Runnells, J. | Assessment of Atlin -Ruffner Abandoned Metal Mine, BC, Canada (O) |
| Dye, Peter John; Weiersbye, Isabel Margrethe | The Mine Woodlands Project in the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa: research strategy and progress (O) |
| Gantar, Ivan; Dolenc, Peter; Paul, Michael; Metschies, Thomas | Remediation of an Uranium Mining Waste Rock Pile in Slovenia (O) |
| Johnson, Raymond H.; Yoshino, Miori E.; Hall, Susan M.; Shea, Valois R. | Predictive Modeling Strategies for Operations and Closure at Uranium In-Situ Recovery Mines (O) |
| K. Bauer, Johannes | Closure of an open pit and landfill excavated earth (P) |
| Lim, Eddy; Beckett, Kirsty; Jaen, Wilhelm; Kumar, Atish | Probabilistic Analysis of mine void salinity and lake level associated with climate change (O) |
| Mara, Septimius; Vlad, Serban-Nicolae | Integrated quality environmental monitoring and warning-alarming system for emergencies due to technical accidents at waste deposits in mining industry (O) |
| Metschies, Thomas; Becker, Martin; König, Christoph; Jenk, Ulf | Modelling of the hydraulic and geochemical conditions of deep mine flooding in a regional aquifer system (O) |
| Nelson, Mark Richard; Hazen, Gary L; Fundingsland, Steven D | Mine Water Remediation at Large-Scale Metal Mines: Balancing Near-Term Investments for Source Control with Long-Term Investments for Collection and Treatment (O) |
| Santofimia, Esther; López-Pamo, Enrique | Influence of runoff and groundwater inflow in the stratification developed in the Concepción pit lake (Iberian Pyrite Belt, Spain) (P) |
| Spychak, Yuriy N. | Closure Coal And Potassium Mines In Ukraine (P) |
| Touchinski, Sergei | Assessment of a Potential Overturn in the End-pit Lakes and the Effect on Water Quality (P) |
| Villain, Lucile; Alakangas, Lena; Öhlander, Björn | Geochemical Evaluation of Mine Water Quality in an Open-pit Site Restored by Backfilling and Covering (O) |
9 Legal and Social Aspects of Mine Water
Use of mine water and discharges of mine water into receiving water courses need special legal consideration in most countries of the world. One of the many examples covering discharges is the European Water Framework Directive. Talks in Section 9 will focus on legal and social questions concerning mine water, impact on surface landowners, ISO accreditation, due diligence, and environmental impact assessments.
Thursday Morning
| Author | Title |
| Amboni, Mirlene Meis; Zanuz, Marcio; Campos, Jonathan Jurandir; Gomes, Cleber Jose Baldoni | Qualitative and Quantitative Representation of the Coal Mining Impact in the Rivers of Santa Catarina State, Brazil (O) |
| Bykova, Elena | The sanitary-protective zones of coal-mining enterprises (P) |
| Fleischhammel, Petra; Arechaga, Francisco; Anibal, Gil | Post mining lakes – various types and their integration in natural hydrography according to the European Water Framework Directive (O) |
| Liefferink, Mariette; van Eeden, Elize S | The Role of the Activist in the Remediation of Mined Land and the Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage: A Success Story Within the West and Far West Rand Goldfields of South Africa (O) |
| Loredo, Jorge; Marques, Antonio; Beggs, Christofer; Venegas, Marcela; Amezaga, Jaime; Rötting, Tobias; Younger, Paul | Guidelines for catchment management and mining impacts in arid and semi-arid regions of South America (CAMINAR Project) (O) |
| Morokane, Molefe | The Current South African Legal Framework With Regards To Water Management For Mine Residue Deposits (Mrd) (O) |
| Stano, Maya | Review and Assessment of Canadian Legislative Regimes Pertaining to Subaqueous Mine Tailings Management (O) |
| Tek, Vannara | CEPA’s experiences in promoting community based water resource management (CBWRM) (O) |
| van Tonder, Danél Magda; Coetzee, Henk; Mudau, Stephina.; Phajane, T | Addressing the Legacy of Gold Mining in Witwatersrand Goldfield, South Africa, Through the Implementation of Regional Mine Closure Strategies (O) |
| van Tonder, Danel Magda; Wade, Dr Peter; Glass, Jenny; Venter, Jaco | Environmental Risk Assessment of the Impact of a Century of Gold Mining on a Catchment, Witwatersrand Goldfield, South Africa (P) |
| Walder, Ingar; Wahlstrom, Margareta; Kaartinen, Tommi; Twardowska, Irena; Drielsma, Johannes A | European Waste Characterisation Standards for the prevention of acid/neutral rock drainage (O) |
10 Mine Tailings
Mine tailings and their associated emanating waters need experienced operators, consultants and researchers to ensure proper handling and treatment. This theme will be the platform for presentations dealing with water flowing through or emanating from mine tailings and coarse waste rock piles, as well as long term groundwater contamination plumes resulting from these and demolition of facilities.
Mondy Afternoon
| Author | Title |
| Allard, Bert; Strömberg, Jessika; Dario, Mårten | Arsenic in ARD from the sulphidic mine waste deposit at Adak, Sweden – leaching and accumulation processes (O) |
| Bäckström, Mattias | Environmental impact of an alum shale deposit, Kvarntorp, Sweden - present and future scenarios (O) |
| Bäckström, Mattias; Sartz, Lotta | Stabilisation of acid generating waste rock with fly ash - immobilisation of arsenic under alkaline conditions (P) |
| Bäckström, Mattias; Sartz, Lotta; Karlsson, Stefan; Allard, Bert | Prevention of ARD through stabilisation of waste rock with alkaline by-products - results from a meso-scale experiment (O) |
| Behrooz, Mehrnoosh; Borden, Robert C | Particle Size Controls Oxidation Rate of Tailings Surface and AMD Production – Hydrologic and Geochemical Characterization of Ore Knob Tailing Pile (O) |
| Bouzahzah, Hassan; Benzaazoua, Mostafa; Bussière, Bruno | A modified protocol of the ASTM normalized humidity cell test as laboratory weathering method for mill tailings. (O) |
| Colling, Angéli Viviani; Menezes, Jean Carlo Salomé dos Santos; Silveira, Priscila Silva; Schneider, Ivo André Homrich | Biohydrometallurgical Process to Produce the Coagulant Ferric Sulfate from the Pyrite Present in Coal Tailings (O) |
| DeSisto, Stephanie L.; Parsons, Michael B.; Jamieson, Heather E. | Using Hydrogeochemical Data to Improve Remediation of Historical Gold Mine Tailings in Nova Scotia (O) |
| Ghorbel, Manel; Courjault-Radé, Pierre; Munoz, Margot; Destrigneville, Christine; Souissi, Radhia; Souissi, Fouad; Ben Mammou, Abdallah; Abdelajouad, Saadi | Are abandoned mine tailings of Northern Tunisia a source of metal contamination in surface waters? (O) |
| Gumbo, Jabulani Ray; Mulugisi, Gundani; Muzerengi, Confidence; Dacosta, Francis | Evaluating the suitability of Paspalum as a candidate for Rehabilitation of Mine Tailings dams: A Case study of New Union Gold Mine (O) |
| Harck, Terry Richard | Mobilisation of salts from mine waste. A pinch or a pound? (P) |
| Rusdinar, Yuni; Edraki, Mansour; Baumgarlt, Thomas; Mulligan, David | A Hydrogeochemical Review of Riverine Tailings Deposition at Freeport, Indonesia (O) |
| Sidenko, Nikolay V.; Mathers, Karen H.; McKernan, J. Michael | Delineation of metal sources in runoff from East Tailings Management Area (ETMA), Lynn Lake, Manitoba, Canada as a means to optimize remediation efforts. (O) |
| Skogsjö, Erika; Allard, Bert; Bäckström, Mattias | Barrier system for treatment of mine drainage at Ranstad, Sweden (P) |
| Stefaniak, Sebastian; Twardowska, Irena | Impact of engineering constructions made of Carboniferous waste rock on groundwater deterioration (O) |
| Vigânico, Eunice Maria; Silva, Rodrigo de Almeida; Machado, Ênio Leandro; Schneider, Ivo André Homrich | Hydrometallurgical/UV Process to Produce Ferrous Sulfate from the Pyrite Present in Coal Tailings (P) |
| Vigânico, Eunice Maria; Silva, Rodrigo de Almeida; Schneider, Ivo André Homrich; Machado, Ênio Leandro | Hydrometallurgical/UV Process to Produce Ferrous Sulfate from the Pyrite Present in Coal Tailings (O) |
| Yim, Gil Jae; Cheong, Young Wook; Min, Dae Sik; Ji, Sang Woo | Effects of capillary zone on water movement in soil column with tailings (P) |
| Ziemkiewicz, Paul; Peckham, Donnie; Kehoe, Alan | Evaluating the effects of moving to a low maintenance ARD control strategy at the Victoria Junction coal tailings site (O) |
| Allard, Bert; Strömberg, Jessika; Dario, Mårten |
11 The ‘Cape Breton Development Corporation’ Legacy
In 1672, the French Nicholas Denys, for the first time ever described the occurrence of coal seams on Cape Breton Island. Since then, coal was mined on the Island to a greater or lesser extent. On December 31, 2009, ‘Cape Breton Development Corporation’ – the endmost large scale mining operator in the Sydney Coal Field – will cease as an entity and will amalgamate into ‘Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation’. Papers presented in this section will deal with the mine water issues of four decades of coal mining on Cape Breton Island by the Corporation and more than three centuries of coal mining on the Island.
Thursday Afternoon
| Author | Title |
| Campbell, Belinda; Gauthier, Andre | Development of Remedial Objectives for the former Cape Breton Development Corporation Mine Closure Program (O) |
| Forgeron, Steve Vincent | Protocols for the Remediation of Lands Impacted by Former Coal Mining Operations, Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia, Canada (O) |
| Forrester, Dave; Boudreau, Robert | Overcoming the Pitfalls of abandonded mine workings in the Sydney Coalfield (O) |
| Forrester, Dave; King, Mark | Remediation of the Gowrie Wash Plant (O) |
| MacLeod, Glenn P | Innovative Uses of LIDAR Technology to assist in the Remediation of former Coal Mine Sites (O) |
| MacLeod, Glenn; Wolkersdorfer, Christian | A statistically based natural tracer investigation of lithological and hydrogeochemical analyses (O) |
| Shaw, Gerard | ECBC Continuing the Legacy (O) |
| Shea, Joe | Innovative Management Techniques to deal with Mine Water Issues in the Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada Coal Field (O) |
| Wolkersdorfer, Christian | Tracer Test in a Passive Mine Water Treatment Settling Pond in the Sydney Mine Field (O) |
12 Discussing the concept of a ‘Zero Waste Mine’
Most mining operations produce large amounts of unwanted material that can't be readily sold to market. Such materials can be overburden, waste rock, mine water, sludges, or tailings. In most cases the mine operator must dispose of these substances. Commonly these unwanted substances are referred to as Mining Waste. This moderated discussion theme will investigate the potential for a Zero Waste Mine, and discuss the techniques and research that is needed to operate a mine as a Zero Waste Mine.
Tuesday Morning
| Authors | Title |
| Amaral Filho, Juarez; Schneider, Ivo André Homrich; Brum, Irineu Antônio Schadach; Miltzarek, Gerson; Sampaio, Carlos Hoffmann; Tubino, Rejane Maria Candiota; Schneider, Carlos Henrique | Characterization of a Coal Tailing Deposit for Zero Waste Mine in the Brazilian Coal Field of Santa Catarina |
| Valente, Teresa Maria; Antunes, Marcel; Fernandes, Ricardo; Pinheiro, Avelino | Potential of reuse and environmental behaviour of ochre-precipitates from passive mine water treatment |
13 Fracture Flow to Mines
The aim of this Session is to look at how fractured rock is characterised and how data are used to assess dewatering and depressurisation in design of large pit slopes or underground mines, water inflow volume or rates, and site water monitoring and management during mining.
Tuesday Morning and Afternoon
| Authors | Title |
| Bellin, James; Bonson, Chris; Jack, Alice | The importance of geotechnical characterisation and structural interpretation in predicting fracture flow to mines (O) |
| Da Gama, Evandro Moraes; Vidigal, Marcus Vinicius | Experimental Verification Of Equations For Determining The Flow Of Water In Rock Discontinuities (P) |
| Dharmagunawardhane, H.A.; Gamage, K.L.S. | Mine Water Problem in a Crystalline Rock Terrain: Experience from the Bogala Graphite Mine, Sri Lanka (P) |
| Gale, John | The Use of Stable Isotopes and Geochemistry in Permafrost Terrain to Help Constrain Minewater Inflow Predictions (O) |
| Johnson, Christopher Scott | Estimating mine inflow rates real time using analytical methods (O) |
| Parker, Beth | The Discrete Fracture Network Approach for Bedrock Site Characterization: Bridging Between Contaminant Hydrogeology and Mine Site Hydrology (O) |
| Seidel, Torsten; König, Christoph | Density - dependent calculation of matrix fracture flow (O) |
| Seok, Eunjeong; Gale, John E. | Scaling-up Fracture Pore Space Permeability - Approach to Mine Water Inflow Prediction (O) |
| Smith, Lucas Andries | Challenges of Open Pit dewatering in highly fractured intrusive ore body (P) |
| Wu, Qiang | Prediction of inflow from overlying aquifers into coalmines—A case study in Jinggezhuang Coalmine, Kailuan, China (P) |
