TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Live Streaming
Live sessions at Time Zone Santiago, Chile. UTC -3. English-Spanish interpretation available.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

Workshops Available for Registered Participants (Free of Charge)

10:00 Evaluation of Physical Stability for Closure of Tailings Deposits

Imparted by Centro de Minería, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
12:30 Break

17:00 An Industry-University Research Consortium that Focuses on the Social Aspects of Mine Closure
Imparted by The Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia
19:00 End of the Day

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

Inauguration Ceremony and Plenary Session 1

10:00 Words of Welcome

Mimy Mackenzie, Conferences and Publications Manager, Gecamin, Chile
Glen Corder, Associate Professor, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland,
Australia
Juan Palma, Academic, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile

Plenary Session 1
Chair: Jacques Wiertz, Associate Professor, Universidad de Chile

10:20 Integrated Closure: A Pathway to Opportunity

Joanne Heyes, Congress Chair; Head of Resource Engineering, BHP Technical Centre of Excellence,
Australia
10:50 Integrated Mine Closure: From Guidance to Good Practice on the Ground
Aidan Davy, Chief Operating Officer, ICMM, UK
11:30 Break
Authors Panel

12:00 Authors Panel Session 1

Design of Mining Operations for Closure
12:30 Authors Panel Session 2
Closure Risk Assessment
13:00 Break

16:00 Authors Panel Session 3

Mine Closure Regulations and Standards
16:30 Authors Panel Session 4
Chemical Stability of Mine Wastes
17:00 Authors Panel Session 5
Closure of Tailings Deposits
17:20 End of the Day

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

Plenary Session 2

Chair: Anna Littleboy, Professor, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia

10:00 Welcome and Program Update

10:10 Social Aspects and Stakeholder’s Involvement in Mine Closure Planning
Katherine Nolan, Social Performance Principal, Anglo American, UK; and Úrsula Weber, Corporate
Relations Manager and Social Development Copper, Anglo American, Chile
10:50 Temporary Closure: When External/Internal Conditions Require for a Pause in the Mine Plan
Paul Maidstone, Environment Manager, Glencore, Chile
11:30 Break

Authors Panel

12:00 Authors Panel Session 6

Mine Closure, Good Practices and Case studies
12:30 Authors Panel Session 7
Post Closure Land Use
13:00 Authors Panel Session 8
Post-Closure, Monitoring and Maintenance
13:30 Break
Panel Discussion

16:00 Panel
Design and Construction of the Closure Plan: A Task for All
Chair: Petri Salopera, Country Manager Ecuador y Chile, Newcrest Mining, Ecuador

Introductory Presentation
Construyendo el cierre de faenas en Codelco
Eduardo Sanzana, Corporate Mine Closure Director, Codelco, Chile

Panelists:
Eduardo Sanzana, Corporate Mine Closure Director, Codelco, Chile
Gonzalo Padilla, Senior Specialist Asset Resource Management – Secondment, BHP, Chile
Alejandra Vial, Corporate Environment Manager, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile
Eva Tobar, Permit Manager, Lundin Mining, Chile
Jorge Campos, Senior Mining Consultant, Arcadis, Chile

17:30 End of the Day

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

Plenary Session 3

Chair: Doina Priscu, Principal Engineer Mining Environment, Priscu and Associates Consulting Engineers,
Canada

10:00 Welcome and Program Up-date

10:10 Closing and Rehabilitating Before the Closure: The Benefits of Progressive Mine Closure
Kim Ferguson, Global Practice Lead Closure, BHP, Australia
10:50 Are We Asking Enough off the ‘Right Questions’ When We Use Modelling to Predict Closure
Performance?
Mike O'Kane, President, O'Kane Consultants, Canada
11:30 Break

Authors Panel

12:00 Authors Panel Session 9

Reclamation and Rehabilitation
12:30 Authors Panel Session 10
Economic Evaluation and Funding of Closure Plans

13:00 Conference Balance and Final Comments

Mimy Mackenzie, Conference Manager, Gecamin, Chile
Jacques Wiertz, Planning for Closure 2020 Program Director; Associate Professor, Universidad de
Chile
 On Demand
Pre-recorded presentations available from Monday, September 7 at 08:00 AM (UTC - 3).
Audio Available in English & Spanish.

Session 1: Design of Mining Operations for Closure (6)

Closure Plan, the Right Moment to Start

Ana Lima, Nexa Resources, Brazil

Integrating Closure to Life of Asset Planning through Anglo American’s ICPS – Los Bronces Case Study
Eduardo Salfate, Golder, Chile; and Eduardo Loo, Anglo American, Chile

Knowledge Base: Using Digital Tools for the Data Integration at Mine Closure Management
Luanna Di Guimarães, Aika Miura, Antônio Gentini, Felipe Oliveira, Lucas Fonseca, Daniel Anton and Karin
Formigoni, Arcadis, Brazil

Progressive Mine Closure – Define this Sustainable Development Practice for your Mine Rock Stockpile
Terryn Kuzyk, Miriam Clark, Chris Mills, Andrew Baisley and Mike O’Kane, O’Kane Consultants, Canada

GIS Planning for Mine Closure Management

Francisco Sepúlveda and Rodrigo Cádiz, Arcadis, Chile

Enabling Public Participation in Mine Closure Planning

Sarah Mackenzie, Kamila Svobodova, Jo-Anne Everingham and Kathy Witt, Sustainable Minerals Institute,
The University of Queensland, Australia

Session 2: Closure Risk Assessment (4)

Risk-Based Management in Mine Closure – Practiced Examples in Brazil

Ana Taveira, Hace Consultoria, Assessoria e Treinamento, Brazil; and Luis Sánchez, University of São Paulo,
Brazil

Reviewing the Impact Produced In Air Quality Due To Infrastructure Decommissioning and Mine Closure
Activities
Valentina Zolezzi, Andrés López, Camila Soler and Javier Mancilla, Wood, Chile

A Rational Method of Risk Assessment for Mine Waste Storage Facilities

Michael James, Michel Julien, Pascal Lavoie, Edouard Masengo, Thomas Lepine, and Edouardine Ingabire,
Agnico Eagle Mines, Canada; and Karen Choven, Enviro Integration Strategies, Canada
Integrating Operational Reports of Tailings Deposits with Mine Closure Risk Assessment: A Proposal for
Sernageomin Report Contents
Andrés López, Valentina Zolezzi, Abraham Figueroa and Juan Carlos Torrejón, Wood, Chile

Session 3: Mine Closure Regulations and Standards (4)

Implementation of Chile´s Mine Closure Law: Critical Analysis of the Regulatory Framework. Challenges
and Proposals
Paulina Riquelme, Jorge Brower and Ignacio Funes, Eelaw, Chile

Critical Comparison between International Standards and Chilean Practice related to Physical Stability of
Mine Waste Dumps in Mining Closure
Daniela Puma, Priscilla Torres, Leonardo Dorador, Eloy Santos, José Campaña and Rodrigo Cádiz, Arcadis,
Chile

Sernageomin Mine Closure Requirements on Medium and Large Mining Companies

José Correa and Andrés León, Sernageomin, Chile

Mining Closure Law in Chile: Present and Future

Alfonso Domeyko, Sernageomin, Chile

Session 4. Chemical Stability of Mine Wastes (6)

Ion Exchange Resistant GCLs for Exposed Liners and Capping for Mine Closure
Michael Donovan, Minerals Technologies, USA; and Dennis Wind and Barbara Gebka, CETCO, USA

Waste Rock Dumps and Tailings Facility Cover Depth Definition Using Numerical Models
Fernanda Baladrón, Kevin Vidal, José Miguel Espinoza and Arnaldo Santander, Golder, Chile; and Gabriel
López, Minera Alumbrera, Glencore, Argentina

Reducing Uncertainties of Coverage Systems for Mine Waste Closure: Design and Modelling
Carla Gonçalves, Luanna Di Guimarães, Lucas Fonseca and Karin Formigoni, Arcadis, Brazil; and Mauricio
Gómez, Arcadis, Chile

Challenges of Chemical Stability Analysis for Mine Closure

May-Lin Almendras and Carolina Gómez, Arcadis, Chile

Use of Mineral Resource Estimation Methods for NAG/PAG Waste-Rock Material Management
Óscar Benavente, Joled Nur and Lilian Valdebenito, SRK Consulting, Chile; and Francois Swanepoel and Yerko
Delgado, Salares Norte, Gold Fields, Chile
Pilot-Scale Experiments of Waste Rock Cover Systems to Support Mine Closure Planning
Sheyla Palomino, Pablo Quesada, Alonso Huamán, Mariel Samanez, Melitza Cornejo-La Torre, Miguel
Mendoza and Eduard Ruiz, Amphos 21, Peru; and María Medina and José Ruiz, Independent Mining
Consultant, Peru

Session 5: Closure of Tailings Deposits (4)

De-Characterization and Closure of TSF: Concepts of the Brazilian Legislation and International Criteria
Débora Schaper, Ricardo Lessa and Antônio Freitas, Golder, Brazil; and Björn Weeks, Golder, Canada

Structured Decision-Making: Tailings to Landform Design for the Closure of Legacy Tailings Storage
Facilities
Rahul Peroor, Sasha Schuck and Terry Braun, SRK Consulting, USA; and Trevor Chesal, BHP, USA

Draindown Estimation Analysis from Tailings Facilities Depending On Modeling Approach

Fernanda Baladrón, Kevin Vidal and José Espinoza, Golder, Chile

Tailings Storage Facility Decommissioning and Closure in Consideration of Erosion Risks

Neeltje Slingerland, Golder, Canada; Diego Barra, Golder, Chile; Chris Waygood, Golder, Australia; and Adam
Auckland, Golder, Canada

Session 6: Mine Closure, Good Practices and Case Studies (5)

Globe Progress Pit Closure Planning

Stephanie Hayton, Duncan Ross, Jeff Nyenhuis and Megan Williams, OceanaGold, New Zealand; Luke
Matheson, PDP, New Zealand; Calvin Wu, Engineering Geology, New Zealand; and Will Olds and Paul Weber,
Mine Waste Management, New Zealand

Innovative Passive Mine Water Treatment Case Studies

Ryan Schipper, Golder, Peru; and Eric Blumenstein, Neal Gallagher and Paige Pruisner, Golder, USA

Passive Treatment for Elevated Iron and Arsenic in Circum - Neutral Mine Affected Water
Stephanie Hayton, Duncan Ross, Jeff Nyenhuis, Megan Williams and M. Clarke, OceanaGold, New Zealand;
D. Trumm, Verum Group, New Zealand; Will Olds and Paul Weber, Mine Waste Management, New Zealand;
and Travis Horton, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Recovery of Byproducts from Pit Lake Waters

John Schubert, Chloe Grabowski and Julie Horan, HDR, USA; and Sriram Ananthanarayan, BHP, USA

Mine Closure – Special Civil Engineering for Effective and Permanent Closure of Mines
Peter Banzhaf, BAUER Spezialtiefbau, Germany
Session 7: Post Closure Land Use (5)

Feasibility Evaluation of Mining Post-Closure Uses Using Risk-Based Management Methodology

Fernanda Guabiroba, Alexandre Matos and Alessandro Nepomuceno, Kinross Brasil Mineração, Brazil; Ana
Taveira, Hace Consultoria Assessoria e Treinamento, Brazil; Solange Sánchez, Baturité Consultoria, Brazil;
and Luis Sánchez, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Multi-Criteria Decision Approach to Support Selection of Post Closure Land Use

Antônio Freitas and Ricardo Lessa, Golder, Brazil

The Challenges of Sustainable Use of Abandoned Underground Flooded Mines as Geothermal Resources
Ramón Díaz, Universidad de Concepción, Chile; and Paulino Fernández and Lorena Álvarez, Universidad de
Oviedo, Spain

Thinking Beyond Closure: Why Bother?

Anna Littleboy, Guy Boggs, Glen Corder, Fiona Haslam-McKenzie, Bruce Kelley, Jason Kirby and Bryan
Maybee, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia

Mining as a Temporary Land Use: A Global Scoping Project on Transitions and Repurposing
Sarah Holcombe and Julia Keenan, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia

Session 8: Post-Closure, Monitoring and Maintenance (4)

Satellite InSAR Applications for Long-Term Displacement Monitoring of Closed Sites

Jonas von Ruette, Jaime Corredor and David Holden, 3vGeomatics, Canada

Evaluation of the Terrestrial Vegetation Bioaccumulative Effect on the Trifolium Repens “Clover” and
Calamagrostis Sp. “Ichu” Species in Abandoned Mining Areas
Lizardo Cahuana and Osvaldo Aduvire, SRK Consulting, Peru

Assessment of the Erosional Performance of a Semi-Arid Rehabilitated Mine Site and Development of a
Predictive Model
Jon Pelletier and Nathan Abramson, University of Arizona, USA; Terry Braun, David Ludwick and Rahul
Peroor, SRK Consulting, USA; Satya Chataut, BHP, USA; and Evan Howard, Landloch Pty, Australia

Developing Geomorphic Design Guidelines for Closure Landforms at the Mount Polley Mine
James Ogilvie, Rowland Atkins and Katy de Rego, Golder, Canada; and Gabriel Holmes, Mount Polley Mining
Corporation, Canada
Session 9: Reclamation and Rehabilitation (4)

Pilot Restoration Project in Lomas Ecosystems for the purpose of Closing the Operations of the Cristina
Quarry
Julio César and Marisela Huamán, J. Cesar Ingenieros & Consultores, Peru; and David Cueto and Juan Carlos
Mesías, UNACEM, Peru

Reclamation and Soil Coverage Assessment through Satellite Imagery

Silmara Silva, Fernanda Guabiroba, Alexandre Araújo, Alexandre Matos, Osmar Ferreira and Alessandro
Nepomuceno, Kinross Brasil Mineração, Brazil; and Kele Craveiro and Vinicius Rissoli, Santiago & Cintra
Consultoria, Brazil

Indigenous Groups, Mined Land Rehabilitation and Mine Closure: Exploring the Australian Terrain
Rodger Barnes, Sarah Holcombe and Joni Parmenter, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of
Queensland, Australia

Ecosystem Carbon Storage in the Mining and Smelter Impacted Landscape of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Peter Beckett, Michael Preston and Nathan Basiliko, Laurentian University, Canada; and Marc Hebert,
Collège Boréal, Canada

Session 10: Economic Evaluation and Funding of Closure Plans (2)

Importance of Asset Closure Planning in the Long-Term Viability of a Mining Business

Jussara Januário and Fabiano Mendanha, Vale, Brazil

Review of Financial aspects of Chile´s Mine Closure Law: Challenges and Proposals
Jorge Brower, Paulina Riquelme and Ignacio Funes, Eelaw, Chile