Speaker schedules are subject to change without notice
Monday September 16
Afternoon Half-Day Workshop - Towards
Sustainable Mining & Biodiversity
1:00PM-5:00PM
Presented by Ben Chalmers, Vice President, Sustainable
Development, Mining Association of
With guest presenter Don McLennan,
Head – Monitoring Science, Canadian High Arctic Research Station Project and
formerly with Parks Canada.
Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) was developed by The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) to improve the industry’s performance by aligning its actions with the priorities and values of Canadians. The TSM initiative is a way for the industry to find common ground with its communities of interest—the groups and individuals involved in and affected by mining—in order to build a better industry, today and in the future.
The
TSM initiative is built around a series of performance indicators in the areas
of tailings management, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions management,
Aboriginal and community outreach, tailings management, biodiversity
conservation management, and safety and health. These indicators give the
public an overview of the industry’s performance by measuring the quality and
comprehensiveness of companies’ management systems.
Biodiversity
conservation management is one of the newest TSM protocols with public
reporting of performance set to begin this year. The conservation of biodiversity is a
commitment in MAC’s Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) Guiding Principles. MAC
members recognize that access to land and a company’s social license depend upon
responsible social, environmental and economic practices and that there is a
strong business case for supporting biodiversity conservation. MAC members
believe that mining, conducted in consultation with communities of interest,
can co-exist with biodiversity conservation. MAC members accept that a
corporate commitment to biodiversity conservation is essential and the
biodiversity conservation management protocol offers an important tool to
improve performance and demonstrate to communities-of-interest that action is
being taken.
This
workshop will provide a general overview of the TSM program and provide focused
training on application of the biodiversity conservation management
protocol.
At the end of the workshop,
participants will:
- Understand the TSM program, including its objectives, history,
accomplishments and future priorities,
- Understand how to apply the biodiversity conservation management
protocol,
- Understand the external verification process.
Symposium Registration Desk
3:00PM-7:00PM
Welcome Reception
7:00PM-9:30PM
Tuesday September 17
Lehigh Mine Tour in Sechelt
7:15AM-10:45AM
Full day tour of the Lehigh Mine in Sechelt.
Tour departs at 7:15AM from the North Tower Lobby
Returning to the hotel at 10:30PM
Lunch and dinner will be provided, cash bar available during
dinner.
*PPE Required: Safety glasses (sunglasses and prescription glasses are not sufficient), Hard Hat, High visibility vests, Steel toed boots
Come and tour the Sechelt Mine, the winner of the 2009 BC Jake
McDonald Mine Reclamation Award and the 2012 Mining and Sustainability
Award! The Sechelt Mine, located on BC’s beautiful
Sechelt Mine 2009 BC Jake McDonald Mine Reclamation Award Information:
http://www.trcr.bc.ca/report-34th-annual-mine-reclamation-awards/#ANNUAL+BRITISH+COLUMBIA+JAKE+MCDONALD+MINE+RECLAMATION+AWARD
Symposium Registration Desk
1:00PM-5:00PM
Exhibitor set up
5:00PM-8:00PM
Wednesday, September 18
Symposium Registration Desk
7:30AM-5:00PM
Day 1 Technical Session
7:50AM-4:30PM
7:50am
Opening Remarks
Considerations in mine reclamation costing
M.J. Brodie
8:30am
Above the coal mines: The
evolution of mine reclamation in the
9:00am
Decommissioning and
remediation of the
B. Donald, M. Unger, Rob Marsland
9:30am – 10:00am
Break
10:00am
Use of ecological risk
assessment to guide remediation at the Teck PinchiLlake mercury mine
P. Allard, R. Baker,
C. Mackintosh
10:30am
R. Marsland, M. Unger, B. Donald
11:00am
Long term post-reclamation
management of the
M. Unger, B. Donald, Rob Marsland
11:30pm-1:00pm
Lunch is provided for all attendees
1:00pm
Processes and functions: A
new approach for mine reclamation
David Polster
1:30pm
Site groundwater management
strategies: groundwater metal remediation using permeable reactive barriers
M. Choi, B. Lin, R. Hamm, G.
Viehweger, H. Tolera, T. Kolb
2:00pm
Using the BC “Guidance
for assessing the design, size and operation of sedimentation ponds used in
mining” to comply with federal/provincial sediment
control legislation
J. C. Clark, H.A. Hemachandra Jayasena
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Break
3:00pm
Abandoned underground mine remedy evaluation and remedial
design Captain Jack Mill Superfund Site
3:30pm
Intensively monitoring cover system thermal properties with distributed
temperature sensing
L.K. Tallon, M.A. O’Kane
4:00pm
Bighorn sheep and Elk Valley coal mines; ecology and winter range
assessment
Kim G. Poole, C. R. Smyth, I. Teske, K. Podrasky, R. Serrouya, G. Sword,
L. Amos
Reclamation Awards Banquet
6:30PM-10:00PM
Evening of great food, camaraderie and reclamation recognition.
Thursday September 19
Symposium Registration Desk
8:00AM-4:30PM
Day 2 Technical Session
8:30AM-4:30PM
8:30am
“Moving mountains and goalposts – how do you know when you’ve reached
the goal?” - Regulatory perspectives of mine reclamation success
Anne Moody, Jennifer McConnachie
9:00am
From exploration to post-closure—the
benefits of using terrain stability assessments in mine life planning
V. Stevens, N. Tashe
9:30 – 10:00 am
Break
10:00am
F. A. Baker, M. Bertram, B. Humbert, B. Boyd
10:30am
Planning for closure – Porcupine Gold Mines’ mine closure program
C.J. Stevens, T. Sulatycky, C.A. Small, L. Götz, R.T. Taillefer,, L.E.
Burke
11:00am
Stakeholder engagement and additional remediation of the decommissioned
Beaverlodge uranium mine site
M. Webster, D. Hockley
11:30am – 1:00pm
Lunch is not provided, at leisure
1:00pm
1:30pm
Discussion of regulatory compliance strategies to achieve receiving
water quality standards using selenium reduction/removal options
D. J. Adams, J. P. Clark, A. Opara, and M. J. Peoples
2:00pm
M. Bianchin, A. Martin, J. Adams
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Break
3:00 pm
Low-cost
self-cladding of coal dumps. The Fungcoal process
M.P. Horan, P.D. Rose
3:30 pm
K.L. Garrah, J. Straker
4:00 pm
Reclamation of a limestone
quarry to a natural plant community in the Rocky Mountains of Southern Alberta
A.C. Cohen-Fernández, M.A. Naeth
Supplier and Consultants Displays September
18 & 19