Bio Anita Parbhakar-Fox is a Principal Research Fellow in Applied Geochemistry and the founding leader of the Mine Waste Transformation through Characterisation (MIWATCH) group at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, University...
Tag: Tailings / Waste Management
Owen Missen – 2024 – Could harnessing natural processes be a potentially viable method to extract critical elements from mine wastes?
Abstract Our planet is not a uniform mixture. Instead, chemical elements are deposited unequally. When enrichment of an element like gold or copper is significant...
Richard Herrington – Development of a site-specific system for rehabilitation of legacy mines: The intersections of social, technical, and environmental data (Bio+Mine project Philippines)
ABSTRACT Authorship: Dennis Alonzo1, Irish Mae Dalona2, Robin Armstrong3, Yves Plancherel4, Mylah Villacorte-Tabelin5, Carlito Baltazar Tabelin6, Arnel Beltran7, Aileen Orbecido7, Pablo Brito-Parada4, Ana Santos3, Anne...
Priscilla P Nelson – Building Trust in Tailings Management
ABSTRACT In the future, tailings management must approach zero waste production – as production of waste is a fundamental design flaw for an engineered process. ...
Laurie Reemeyer – Improved Tailings Management – a Prerequisite for Responsible Metal Supply
11409-833 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC, V6B0G4, Canada laurie@resourcefulpaths.com +1-604-754-7710 Processing of ores for the extraction of minerals and metals commonly produces a waste material, tailings,...
Nicholas Arndt – The Need for Improved Methods of Monitoring Tailings Dams
Nicholas Arndt, Richard Lynch, Dan Hollis, Aurélien Mordret, Anaïs Lavoué, Sophie Beauprêtre, Romeo Courbis, Charles Beard Sisprobe, 24 allée des Vulpains, 38240 Meylan, France “In...
Gareth Morgan – Trust, but verify: reported vs. observed
Trust, but verify: reported vs. observed, keeping an objective eye on natural resources production & supply using Earth Observing satellite data analytics ABSTRACT Increased transparency...
Norman Gridley – Redesign of mining plans to create available volumes for permanent disposal of large quantities of mineral processing tailings in mined out areas
The presentation suggests that Mining Plans be designed and/or redesigned to consider and incorporate the permanent disposal of mineral processing tailings. Such redesigns would require...
Nadja Kunz – Progressing water security in mining regions
Water is an essential input for mining and minerals processing, but the industry’s use of water can pose detrimental impacts to natural ecosystems and the...
Kathyrn Goodenough – The rare earth elements – a responsible future?
The rare earth elements (REE) have been the headline of the critical metals agenda for the last decade, and remain important due to their use...