Conference | Mine Closure 2015:
Mine Closure has become an internationally recognized conference series since it was established in 2006. The 10th International Conference on Mine Closure will offer a multidisciplinary global forum for exchanging views and developing capacity, to ensure that new mines are designed with closure in mind, and old sites are closed economically, while minimizing environmental and societal impacts.
This is the second time Mine Closure returns to Canada, after a very successful conference in 2011 at Lake Louise that attracted almost 600 delegates. Following on that success, the conference organizers have again partnered with the British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation (BC TRCR). Mine Closure 2015 will be held in conjunction with TRCR’s 39th Annual BC Mine Reclamation Symposium. The joint event will offer delegates a stellar technical program featuring the latest scientific developments, as well as insightful discussions on the most pressing issues.
THEMES
- Evolution of mine closure: changing expectations
- Closure – past, present and future
- Mine closure and communities
- Landform design
- Ecosystem reconstruction
- Cover systems
- Mine closure in cold regions
- Mine closure in high rainfall and/or remote locations
- Financing closure
- Climate adaptation
- Mining legacies
- First Nations and mine closure
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Mining companies and operators
- Regulators
- Engineers and geologists
- Lawyers
- Consultants
- Designers of mine closure and reclamation projects
- International practitioners
- Researchers – academics including professors and students
- Those involved with societal matters related to mine closure
