Geosyntec practitioners will present three papers and three posters at the Tailings and Mine Waste 2023 Conference at the JW Marriott Parq Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, from Sunday, November 5 through Wednesday, November 8, 2023. Karen Béchard, Kristin Salzsauler, Matthew Gore, and Ali Nasseri-Moghaddam will present sessions, and Larissa Smith, Sarah Miles, and Aaron Bleasdale-Pollowy will present posters.

Practitioners in attendance will be Karen Béchard, Aaron Bleasdale-Pollowy, Matthew Gore, Anna Goto, Andrew Holmes, Henning Holmström, Symon Jackson, Dan LaPorte, Christopher Livingston, Silvia Mancini, Sarah Miles, Ali Nasseri-Moghaddam, Stephanie Owen, Jennifer Pretorius, Jenny Ramirez, Jeff Roberts(SiREM), Kristin Salzsauler, Larissa Smith (SiREM), Bahareh Vazhbakht, George Yung, and Sam Zhang.

Geosyntec practitioners will also be available at Booth 25 in the convention hall. We are a gold sponsor of the event.

The Tailings and Mine Waste Conference is a forum for presenting the state-of-art and state-of-practice with respect to mill tailings and mine waste. It also provides a platform to discuss current and future topics facing the tailings, mining, and environmental communities.

The Tailings and Mine Waste 2023 conference program will include exemplary technical presentations and keynotes by practitioners and well-known experts in tailings and mine waste worldwide. The 2023 program will also include many expert panels, six short courses, and networking opportunities. The conference is hosted through the Colorado State University in conjunction with the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta on alternating years.

Presentations

Session 4: Supportive Technologies
Presentation Title: Application and Learnings of GISTM Management Optimization Tools
Presenter: Karen Béchard
Time: Monday, November 6 at 2:50 p.m. PDT

Session 14: Environment & Water Issues
Presentation Title: Leveraging Exploration Assay and Environmental Data for Mine Waste Planning: Developing Geochemical Block Models for Environmentally Complex Mine Waste
Presenter: Kristin Salzsauler
Time: Wednesday, November 8 at 10:30 a.m. PDT

Session 13: Application of GISTM
Presentation Title: Utilized Approaches in the Application of GISTM to Legacy Tailing Facilities
Presenters: Matthew Gore and Ali Nasseri-Moghaddam
Time: Wednesday, November 8 at 11:50 a.m. PDT

Posters

Poster Title: Molecular Biological Tools for Monitoring Selenium Reduction and Metabolic Functions in Microbial Communities
Poster Presenter: Larissa Smith

Poster Title: A Review of Microbial Induced Carbonate Precipitation Treatment in the Remediation of Diverse Mine Tailings
Poster Presenter: Sarah Miles

Poster Title: Innovative Passive Treatment of Selenium in Mine-Influenced Brine Using Solar-Powered Buoyant Photocatalysts
Poster Presenter: Aaron Bleasdale-Pollowy

Services for Mining

• Overview of Services for Mines
• Infrastructure Planning and Permitting
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Water Resource Management
• Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability Compliance and Management Systems
• Litigation Support and Environmental Liability Valuation
• Exploration, Feasibility, Risk Assessment and Cost Estimating
• Environmental Assessment, Investigation, Monitoring and Permitting
• Engineering Design
• Operations, Construction, Procurement, Oversight, and Management
• Closure, Reclamation, and Conversion

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More Information

About the event: Tailings and Mine Waste Conference
About Colorado State University: Civil & Environmental Engineering
About the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering: The Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
For consultation regarding mining, contact Silvia Mancini at SMancini@Geosyntec.com.