Saturday, November 4, 2023
Moving Beyond TSF Monitoring Status Quo – An Introduction to Emerging and Innovative Technologies
Time & Location
Saturday, November 4, 2023
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST
Parq Hotel – Cambie Meeting Room
Course Description
This interactive course will provide an overview of tailings dam failure modes, instrumentation design and selection and risk-informed TSF management. It also discusses an overview of traditional and emerging monitoring and surveillance technologies.
The course concludes with a summary on an integrated approach for the future management of tailings presented by Vale, base metals, before a panel discussion.
Attendees also participate in interactive small-group exercises on best practices for instrumentation selection and data interpretation. The course offers a one-hour hands-on workstation, during which the attendees have an opportunity to interact with all speakers and learn more about each new technology presented in the course, learn more about Vale and Rio Tinto’s approach for tailings management, and the expertise provided by consultants such as WSP.
The course concludes with a panel discussion on the opportunities and challenges of instrumentation selection, and implementation including new technologies.
Presenters
Zara Anderson, VP Mining, Silixa
A mining engineer with over 20 years in the field, Zara has worked mainly as a geotechnical engineer in mine operations, academics, instrumentation, and consulting fields. Zara is the VP of Mining at Silixa, where she is working with mines globally to develop and implement characterization and monitoring solutions based on Distributed Fiber Optics Sensing solutions.
Greta Tresoldi, Product Manager, LSI LASTEM
Graduated in Environmental Engineering and in Exploration and Applied Geophysics, she worked as a researcher at Politecnico di Milano, now she is Product Manager at LSI LASTEM. Her studies and work have been always related to environmental monitoring solution for prevention and prediction of natural hazards.
David McLelland, Founder, CEO and Chief Scientist, Auracle Geospatial Science
David is Founder, CEO and Chief Scientist of Auracle Geospatial Science. He earned a Master of Science with Distinction in Remote Sensing and Geospatial Science from Manchester Metropolitan University’s faculty of Earth and Environmental Science and a postgraduate diploma in Applied and Theoretical Geographic Information Science from Simon Fraser University.
David also completed the B.C.Y.C.M. Mineral Exploration program and completed the B.C.Y.C.M. Advanced Field School at British Columbia Institute of Technology. He has over 20 years of experience in Remote Sensing and the developer of Auracle’s MUD® system which transforms traditional satellite radar techniques.
Jody Polk, President – Auracle Geospatial USA
Theo Gerritsen, Principal Engineer Tailings, Copper Technical, Rio Tinto
Theo is the Principal Tailings Engineer for Rio Tinto Copper. Theo and his team, oversee the tailings related Risk for the Rio Tinto Copper Group, by supporting the assets with governance, risk assessment(s), implementation of the GISTM and review and support on general design activities. His experience includes all engineering aspects of tailings design for brownfield and greenfield sites, with experience gained across multiple commodities and geographies . Theo is active in the tailings community and partakes in the Queensland Tailings Group as a committee member, sites on the organising committee for the Mine Waste and Tailings conference and the CDA/USSD EOR working group. Prior to joining Rio Tinto in 2021 he was the Stantec global tailings lead. He holds a Master’s degree from Delft University and resides in Brisbane.
Greg Puro, Manager Dams – Vale Base Metals
Mr. Puro graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1996. Prior to joining Vale in 2001, he worked as a geotechnical engineer for Golder Associates on numerous tailings and dam projects across North and South America. Since joining Vale, Greg has progressed through a series of operational and technical roles. Currently, he is the Manager of Dams for Vale’s Base Metals organization.
Patrick Sean Wells, Technical Excellence and Innovation Lead, WSP Canada Inc.
Patrick Sean is a recent addition to WSP Canada’s team as the Technical Excellence and Innovation Lead for Mine Waste West. During a career of over 25 years with Placer Dome, Suncor Energy, and Teck, he is an experienced leader in tailings management and operations, technology development, organisational effectiveness, and leadership. Over this time, he has collaborated with many global industry and academic professionals in some of the world’s largest tailings and closure projects, as well as being an author and presenter, and holds several patents in novel tailings treatment.
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Rates:
Delegate – $500
Student – $150
Included: 2 coffee breaks and lunch
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If you are registering with a student rate, you will be asked to submit a current student photo ID and proof of enrollment in a current, full-time course.
Filtered Tailings Management – Planning, Design, Construction, and Operation
Time & Location
Saturday, November 4, 2023
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST
Burrard Meeting Room
Course Description
This short course will focus on the practical application of filtered tailings management, facility design, and operations. Current standard-of-practices in planning, design, fundamental geotechnics, construction concepts and approaches, and operations of filtered tailings storage facilities will be covered.
The short course will dive into the technical challenges of tailings dewatering from various angles, including process (dewatering) and filter cake properties, geotechnics, transport and stacking (deposition planning), geotechnical design, and geochemical considerations. Key operational factors will be addressed.
Presenters
– Colleen Crystal, Principal Consultant
Ms. Crystal is Principal geotechnical engineer with over 25 years of experience in geotechnical engineering and seismic analysis and design for mine-waste tailings and waste rock facilities, filtered tailings facilities, earthen embankments, landfills, and water retention dams. Including previously serving as EOR on during planning, design, construction, and implementation of several filter pressed dry-stack tailings facilities.
Colleen has broad based experience in geotechnical engineering and mine waste geotechnics: including static and seismic design, ground motion studies, liquefaction evaluations, dam safety, and risk evaluations for both conventional and non-conventional (including filtered) tailings storage facilities. She is currently the technical lead on several large-scale non-conventional filtered tailings storage facility projects in IPS and SPS phases in Chile. She is also serving on filtered tailings task force, steering committees and has (or is currently) serving as third party independent reviewer and ITRB panel member for several planned large-scale filtered tailings projects.
– Dr. Joe Scalia, Associate Professor, Colorado State University
Dr. Joe Scalia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins, CO USA, specializing in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. Joe works on applied and translational research in the areas of filtered tailings, commingled tailings, covers and liners, coupled geochemical and geotechnical processes, IoT monitoring, and tailings outreach and education.
Joe teaches undergraduate courses in geotechnical engineering and graduate courses in environmental containment systems, unsaturated geotechnics, fundamentals of soil behavior, and oral communications in geotechnical engineering. Joe has published more than 50 refereed articles and is associate editor for the Journal of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering and Geotextiles & Geomembranes, as well as an editorial board member of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal and Geosynthetics International.
Joe holds a BS in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Bucknell University, and an MS and PhD in Geological Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining CSU, Joe was a Senior Associate in the Environmental and Earth Science Practice of Exponent.
Joe is currently the CSU Site Director of the Tailings Center, the chair of the SME Filtered Tailings Working Group, a member of the Tailings & Mine Waste Conference Committee, and a voting member of ASTM D18 and D35. He is also the GeoAmericans 2024 Conference Co-Chair.
– Paul Emerson, P.Eng. Director of Business Development, TNT
Paul Emerson is TNT’s Director of Business Development. Paul has more than 33 years of experience in Business Development, Project Management, Engineering in the Mining conveying and bulk materials handling industry. He is an industry expert in areas of heap leach stacking, waste stacking, dry tails stacking, high-tonnage and complex overland conveying as well as In-Pit Crushing and Conveying (IPCC) applications.
– Raul Norambuena, Principal Design Engineer
Mr. Norambuena has more than 10 years of experience in the design of tailings and waste rock handling facilities; seismic geotechnical engineering; dam engineering, dam failure assessments; safety reviews and audits, engineering design, construction supervision and operation, and EOR services.
Mr. Norambuena is currently the Principal Design Engineer for several planned and operational filtered tailings facilities in both Mexico and Chile. Raúl’s main area of expertise is geotechnics and geotechnical design of mining waste management facilities.
He has an MS in Soil Mechanics and Earthquake Engineering from Imperial College London, and an MS and BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Chile. He is a member of the British Columbia Association of Engineers and Geoscientists, EIT, and a member of the Chilean Society of Geotechnical Engineers (SOCHIGE).
– Carrie Hartford, Senior Project Engineer
Carrie Hartford, Senior Project Engineer, has been with Jenike and Johanson for over 15 years designing bins, silos, feeders, and transfer chutes to solve challenging material handling problems for clients in all industries. She teaches courses, writes papers and gives technical presentations all over the world regarding the science of bulk solids handling and storage.
Carrie holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from UC Santa Barbara, an MBA from Azusa Pacific University, and is a licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer in the State of California. Carrie is based out of San Luis Obispo, California – previously she established Jenike & Johanson’s office in Perth Australia.
– Ruixue Wang, P.Eng. Ph.D.
Ruixue Wang is a Senior Project Engineer with Jenike & Johanson with over 4 years of experience designing bins, silos, feeders, and transfer chutes for a wide range of bulk solids. He has worked on projects across several industries including cement, mining, food & beverage, and more. Before Jenike & Johanson, he worked at Ausenco as a Senior Arctic and Cold Regions Engineer. Ruixue has a Ph.D. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Clarkson University and Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mechanics from Dalian University of Technology.
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Rates:
Delegate – $500
Student – $150
Included: 2 coffee breaks and lunch
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If you are registering with a student rate, you will be asked to submit a current student photo ID and proof of enrollment in a full-time course.
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Tailings Geotechnics: Recent Advances and Perspectives
Time & Location
Sunday, November 5, 2023
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST
Parq Hotel – Grand Ballroom Salon D
Course Description
This short course discusses recent advances and future perspectives in tailings geotechnics, emphasizing their role in the design, construction, and operation of tailings storage facilities. Discussion topics include tailings engineering, fundamentals of static/cyclic liquefaction, characterization of mine tailings at different scales (i.e., laboratory, field), and seismic design aspects of tailings storage facilities.
This short course aims to present recent methodologies and how they are being implemented in the engineering of tailings storage facilities; hence, it assumes that participants have familiarity with the area of tailings geotechnics.
Presenters
Dr. Jorge Macedo, Ph.D., P.E., Frederick Olmsted Early Career Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Jorge Macedo, Ph.D., P.E., is the Frederick Olmsted Early Career Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), where he joined the faculty in 2018. He received M.S. (2014) and Ph.D. (2017) degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, all majoring in civil engineering.
Dr. Macedo practiced as a geotechnical engineer for six years (2008-2013), working on major mining, oil, and gas projects in Peru, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil from conception to detailed engineering design, and he holds P.E. licenses in California and Peru. Dr. Macedo’s main research areas are mining geotechnics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and data-driven risk engineering applied to multi-hazards. He is an associate editor of Earthquake Spectra and guest editor of the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.
Dr. Macedo’s research aims to make geotechnical infrastructure and cities more resilient against natural (e.g., earthquakes) and man-made hazards, saving lives, and reducing economic losses. Dr. Macedo is a recipient of the 2022 States National Science Foundation CAREER award for his work at the convergence of tailings geotechnics and data science. He also received the 2022 Young Faculty Research Award (Georgia Tech), the 2022 ASCE Outstanding Reviewer award, and the 2023 ISSMGETC20 Young Researcher Award. Dr. Macedo is also the founder and chair of the TAILENG (TAilings and IndustriaL waste ENGineering) center, which works on improving the resilience of infrastructure in the mining and power industries.
Dr. Christopher Bareither, Associate Professor, Colorado State University
Dr. Bareither is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. His expertise is in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. His education is all within the field of Geological Engineering; he received a BS from University of Idaho (2004) and MS (2006) and PhD (2010) from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Bareither conducts research and teaches undergradauate and graduate courses in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. In addition, he is faculty adviser to the CSU chapter of Engineers Without Borders that is actively engaged in engineering challenges for developing communities, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado.
Jonathan Bray, Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence, University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Bray is the Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned engineering degrees from West Point, Stanford, and Berkeley. Dr. Bray is a registered professional civil engineer and has served as a consultant on several important engineering projects and peer review panels. He has authored more than 350 research publications.
Jonathan’s expertise includes the seismic performance of earth structures, seismic site response, liquefaction and ground failure and its effects on structures, earthquake fault rupture propagation, and post-event reconnaissance.
Dr. Bray was elected into the US National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow in ASCE. He has received several other honors, including the Terzaghi Award, Ishihara Lecture, Peck Award, Joyner Lecture, Prakash Award, Huber Research Prize, Packard Foundation Fellowship, and NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.
Scott M. Olson, Ph.D., P.E., Professor and Faculty Excellence Scholar, University of Illinois
Scott M. Olson, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor and Faculty Excellence Scholar in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Illinois, where he joined the faculty in 2004. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, Scott worked in practice for nearly 8 years for Woodward-Clyde Consultants and URS Corporation on infrastructure, energy, and mining projects worldwide.
Prof. Olson has researched static and seismic liquefaction for over 25 years, and has been involved in dozens of research and consulting projects involving geotechnical earthquake engineering; tailings dam engineering; in situ, laboratory, and centrifuge testing, soil-foundation-structure interaction; and paleoliquefaction and geohazards analysis. From these activities, Scott has published over 150 journal papers, conference articles, and reports and has received numerous awards, including the ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize and the Canadian Geotechnical Society R.M. Quigley Award.
Prof. Olson serves in various capacities for the Geo-Institute, USUCGER, EERI, the Transportation Research Board (TRB), and the Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance (GEER) Association. Most recently, he became a founding member of the U.S.-based Tailings and Industrial Waste Engineering (TAILENG) Center.
Christina Winckler, Geotechnical Director, Mining Practice, Anglo American
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Rates:
Delegate – $500
Student – $150
Included: 2 coffee breaks and lunch
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Site Investigation for Tailings, Mine Waste & Heap Leach
Time & Location
Sunday, November 5, 2023
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST
Parq Hotel – Grand Ballroom Salon E
Course Description
Participants will be exposed to the various equipment, techniques, and considerations necessary to facilitate planning, implementing, and analyzing a T&MW site characterization.
An introduction to a broad suite of testing tools ranging from geophysical, drilling, sampling, and in-situ testing. Brief case history examples will be provided throughout the course.
Presenters
Jason T. DeJong, Ph.D. – Professor, University California Davis
Dr. Jason DeJong is a Professor at the University of California, Davis. Jason directs and coordinates research through the Soil Interactions Laboratory, UC Davis Center for Geotechnical Modeling, and NSF ERC Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics. Prof. DeJong’s major technical achievements have been in the areas soil and site characterization, biogeotechnics, earthquake engineering, and geotechnical sustainability.
Jason has developed or refined several in situ and laboratory tools as well as data quality and correction methods, to improve the characterization of difficult soils – soft sediments, intermediate soils, tailings, and gravelly soils. At the project scale he created an integrated site characterization framework for practice to develop a hypothesis-driven program which streamlines and optimizes industry work, with the goal of cost-efficient and optimized designs that are not excessively conservative and over-designed. Results from his research program have been disseminated through more than 250 publications.
Jason’s contributions have been recognized through the ASTM International Hogentogler Award (2x), ICE TK Hsieh Prize, ASCE Huber Research Prize, ASCE Casagrande Professional Development Award, Prakash Research Award, ICE Telford Premium Prize, and as an ASCE Fellow.
Jamie Sharp, P.Eng. – Chief Executive Officer, ConeTec Group
Jamie is a Geotechnical Engineer, graduating from the school of Applied Science at Queen’s University
in Kingston, Ontario in 1998. He has worked on hundreds of geotechnical and environmental projects throughout the United States and Canada, South and Central America, and Asia. These projects have exposed him to all types of in-situ testing and drilling methods both in a fieldwork and project management setting.
Jamie is adaptive to unconventional site investigation techniques in remote and challenging environments, specifically mining applications. Jamie has and continues to lead the implementation and management of large and innovative site investigation projects in marine and mine tailings environments.
Jamie is the initiator of several novel site characterization innovations including in-situ testing, drilling, and geophysical techniques. Jamie currently manages the ConeTec family of site investigation contractors.
Dallas McGowan, P.Eng. – Vice President Oil Sands, ConeTec Group
Dallas is a Civil Engineer, graduating from the school of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver British Columbia. Starting with ConeTec as a Co-Op field engineer in 2010, he has field experience on projects throughout Western Canada on civil infrastructure, environmental and mining projects in Western Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
Passionate about building relationships with local communities, Dallas initiated the formation of the Mikisew-ConeTec Limited Partnership, a business arrangement between the Mikisew Cree First Nation and ConeTec offering site investigation, instrumentation, and ground improvement services to the Oil Sands industry.
Dallas has authored several papers and has extensive knowledge of oil sands tailings and mining site investigations using in-situ testing, drilling, instrumentation, and geophysical techniques. Dallas is currently the Vice President of ConeTec’s Oil Sands division.
Joseph Quinn, PhD, P.Eng, P.Geo, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Vice President, Klohn Crippen Berger
Ranjiv Gupta, PhD, P.E., Manager Tailings and Water, Freeport-McMoran
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Rates:
Delegate – $500
Student – $150
Included: 2 coffee breaks and lunch
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If you are registering with a student rate, you will be asked to submit a current student photo ID and proof of current enrollment in a full-time course.
Risk Assessment – Part 3
Time & Location – Half Day
Sunday, November 5, 2023
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST
Parq Hotel – Grand Ballroom Salon F
Course Description
In November 2022, a short course was held as part of the Tailings and Mine Waste Conference that provided an overview of risk assessment for tailings storage facilities that included lessons learned from water dam risk assessment, legal perspectives, approaches by different mining companies, quantitative risk assessment, and the ALARP concept. This was Part 1.
In June 2023, a short course delivered as part of the ICOLD conference, built on Part 1 and elaborated on details of risk identification, analysis, evaluation of risk and risk controls, and the decision-making process supported by specific examples. The ICOLD short course was Part 2.
Risk Assessment – Part 3 will be a short course that builds on the previous short courses by exploring the following items:
· Risk Identification – inconsistent terminology used in risk assessment of tailings dams
· Risk Assessment and Risk Management Frameworks (from ISO3100, FERC, and beyond)
· Risk Evaluation – Describe how a safety case can be developed that builds on risk assessment
· Risk treatment – The role of risk assessment in a Tailings Management System
· Use of risk assessment in decision making
The course will use a case study as an example to illustrate key points of the risk assessment process. Note that because of the limited time, we will not be diving into how to estimate likelihood of consequences, but rather draw on the case study to show different approaches that can be used to frame and present the risks and then use the results of a risk assessment to inform decisions.
This workshop is designed specifically for the practitioners, engineers and decision makers alike, and for all those who have interest in gaining practical knowledge and willing to learn from the success stories, new frontiers and the challenges the industry faces in the area of risk management (risk identification, risk assessment, risk evaluation and risk treatment) when considering tailings dewatering in their projects or at their operations.
Note: In October, the Leads for this short course will share a detailed synopsis of the Risk Assessment Part 1 and 2 courses to confirmed registrants.
Presenters
Andy Small, P.Eng., Klohn Crippen Berger
Andy is a geotechnical engineer with over 30 years of experience in tailings facility design and safety assessment. He works with Klohn Crippen Berger and is based in Eastern Canada. Andy has been actively involved with the Canadian Dam Association and the International Commission on Large Dams. He co-chaired the Part 1 risk assessment workshop that was held in Denver in 2022.
Jiri Herza, C.P.Eng., HATS Consulting
Jiri is a civil engineer with 20 years of experience in dams, tailings and geotechnical engineering actively involved in ANCOLD, CZECHCOLD and ICOLD. Jiri co-chaired the Part 1 risk assessment short course in Denver in November 2022 and was the main convenor of the Part 2 risk assessment short course in Gothenburg in June 2023. Jiri is a PhD researcher at the Czech Technical University in Prague and the director of HATS Consulting in Australia.
Colleen Crystal, P.E., SRK Consulting
Ms. Crystal is Principal geotechnical engineer with over 25 years of experience in geotechnical engineering and seismic analysis and design for mine-waste tailings and waste rock facilities, filtered tailings facilities, earthen embankments, landfills, and water retention dams. Including previously serving as EOR on during planning, design, construction, and implementation of several filter pressed dry-stack tailings facilities.
Colleen has broad based experience in geotechnical engineering and mine waste geotechnics: including static and seismic design, ground motion studies, liquefaction evaluations, dam safety, and risk evaluations for both conventional and non-conventional (including filtered) tailings storage facilities. She is currently the technical lead on several large-scale non-conventional filtered tailings storage facility projects in IPS and SPS phases in Chile. She is also serving on filtered tailings task force, steering committees and has (or is currently) serving as third party independent reviewer and ITRB panel member for several planned large-scale filtered tailings projects.
Mohammad (Mamun) Al-Mamun, P. Eng., Tetra Tech
Mohammad (Mamun) Al-Mamun has over twenty years of experience in geotechnical, geoenvironmental, and infrastructure engineering and led multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder teams that delivered complex and challenging design and construction projects. His areas of expertise include design and construction of embankments dams and waste dumps, dam safety management (water, hydropower, mining), QA/QC, preparation of construction specifications, regulatory compliance, risk assessment, tailings management, large site investigation, foundation characterizations and instrumentation programs as well as laboratory and in-situ testing, and construction management.
Mamun works for Tetratech in Calgary, Alberta and is an active member of the Canadian Dam Association (CDA). He chaired technical committees, working groups and regularly organize workshops and conferences for CDA, Tailings and Mine Waste (TMW) and Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS). Mamun is member of Independent Technical Review Borads (ITRB) and acts as Engineer of Records (EoR) for tailings dams.
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Rates:
Delegate – $350
Student – $150
Included: Coffee break and lunch
Please visit our registration page to register for this short course.
If you are registering with a student rate, you will be asked to submit a current student photo ID and proof of current enrollment in a full-time course.
Tailings Management Systems
Time & Location – Half Day
Sunday, November 5, 2023
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
Parq Hotel – Grand Ballroom Salon F
Course Description
The GISTM requires a that tailings storage are managed under a Tailings Management System (TMS). Several guidance documents present the concept of a Tailings Management System (TMS), however, there is a lack of practical examples applying these concepts, especially within mining organisations’ existing management systems. Precedence for TMS can be found in the water dam industry, where Dam Safety Management Systems are well-defined and implemented.
This short course will look at the core elements of TMS and allow participants to hear how mining companies have implemented their own TMS.
Expected learning outcomes:
Participants are expected to learn:
· The core elements of a TMS
· How the water dam industry has implemented dam safety management systems
· How mining organisations have implemented TMS
· Considerations and practicalities of developing and implementing a TMS within a mining organization
Presenters
This course will be facilitated by Ryan Singh (HATS Consulting), with presentations from and discussions with representatives of several global mining companies including Rio Tinto, BHP and Gold Fields.
Ryan Singh
Ryan is a dams and tailings engineer with over 12 years of experience in consultancy and working for asset owners, with project experience in Australia, Africa, Europe and Asia. He has experience as a lead designer, owner’s engineer, deputy Engineer of Record and Technical Consultant. More recently, he has been integrally involved in the development and implementation of tailings management systems and tailings risk assessment processes for global mining companies.
Other Presenters
– Imran Gillani, Principal Advisory Tailings and Dams, Rio Tinto
Imran Gillani is a Principal Advisor, tailings and dams, with Rio Tinto for the last 12 years. Before joining Rio Tinto, he worked as a consultant for about 16 years. In his current role, Imran is responsible for corporate assurance and governance activities including strategic planning, technical risk reduction, project shaping, due-diligence, regulatory standards and compliance. Imran is also responsible for providing expert advice to various business units of Rio Tinto on tailings management across the world.
– Jarrad Coffey, Manager Tailings & Dams, Rio Tinto Iron Ore
Jarrad has been involved with tailings management at Rio Tinto for the past 13 years, with responsibilities spanning technical support and leadership of long-term planning, projects and operations. In recent years Jarrad has developed and lead the governance and risk management programs of Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s tailings and dams assets. This work has included the development of an integrated tailings community, dedicated tailings management team, dedicated tailings studies team, comprehensive tailings management system and risk management processes. More broadly, his experience extends to civil and mining assets and infrastructure with specialisation in a broad variety of soil mechanics topics.
– Johan Boshoff, Group Head of Tailings, Gold Fields
Johan Boshoff has been involved in geotechnical engineering aspects of mine waste projects for the past 27 years. His expertise includes detailed design, monitoring and project management of tailings storage facilities, mine residue stockpiles and waste disposal facilities.
He has worked on projects in South Africa, West and Central Africa, Australasia, Asia and Latin America. As the Group Head of Tailings, based in Perth, Western Australia, he supports implementing leading industry practices for effective and sustainable design, construction, operation, and closure of TSFs across all Gold Fields and Joint Venture operations.
– George Afriyie, Senior Engineer, Newmont
George Afriyie is a Senior Engineer with Newmont Corporation. He has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana and a master’s degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Carleton University, Canada. He has 10 years of experience working on Tailings Storage Facilities and water dams across different countries including Ghana, Canada and Australia. His work mainly focuses on management of TSFs and water dams, site investigations, monitoring, design and construction of these structures.
– Geraldo Paes Junior, Corporate Geotechnical Director, Vale
Geraldo was appointed to the position of Corporate Geotechnical Director at Vale in February 2023 to lead the corporate geotechnical team, aiming to improve the tailings and dams’ governance, establish the strategy on related programs and implementing the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM). He joined Vale in June 2022, after 22 years working in a global mining and metals company, with roles spanning from tailings and dams’ management, capital projects development, and joint ventures management, in different countries and cultures. Geraldo holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidade Federal Fluminense-Brazil and Executive MBA from Fundação Getulio Vargas-Brazil and Ohio State University-USA. He also attended the General Management Executive Program (Accelerated Development Programme) at London Business School-UK.
Register
Rates:
Delegate – $350
Student – $150
Included: Coffee break and lunch
Please visit our registration page to register for this short course.
If you are registering with a student rate, you will be asked to submit a current student photo ID and proof of current enrollment in a full-time course.