The Mine Water Solutions 2022 Organizing Committee would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone who attended, sponsored, exhibited at, and supported #MWS22! We were thrilled to welcome delegates from all over the world at this amazing hybrid event. We invite you to review the 2022 proceedings below.
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Chapter 1 - Mine Water Management
- Hydrometric Monitoring and Effluent Discharge Mixing in Challenging Natural Conditions │ Michael Barrett, Jaime Villaamil, Violeta Martin, Sitotaw Yirdaw, Travis Pastachak and Garnet Cornell
- Improving the Performance of Mineral Flotation by Treating Process Water │ Richard Dixon, Kaj Jansson, Erdem Ozdemir, Diana Kasymova and Eija Saari
- Water Treatment Intake and Fish Barrier Design in Mountainous Streams │ Avneet Button, Daniel Mackle, Matthew Graham and Hooman Mahjoobi
- Suggested Best Practices for Water Stewardship in Mining │ Simone Dennison
- Predictive Mine Water Balance Modelling – Does Accurate Mean Reliable? │ Ali Naghibi and David Luzi
- Industrial-Scale Non-Biological Selenate Removal – Examples of Plants and Criteria behind Process Selection │ David Kratochvil, H.C. Liang, Brent Baker and Veneil Sundar
- Water in Tailings: A Review of 20 Years of Post-closure Tailings Performance │ Clara Balasko, Daren Willems, Ashley Gusikoski and Andrew Watson
- Climate Change Impact on Water Management Design for the Rehabilitation of the Former Rum Jungle Uranium Mine │ Danielle O’Toole, Jackie Harnett, Peter Cupitt and Peter Georgio
- PFAS and the Mining Industry: Understanding the Challenges │ Krista Barfoot, Angus McGrath, Sasha Richards, Tanya Shanoff and Janice Stonebridge
- ECO Score – a New Environmental Standard for Industry and its Applicability in Water Management │ David Vexler, Claudia Revilla and Olenka Garavito
- Improving Efficiency in Underground Mine Process Water Reticulation Systems │ Wayne Johnstone
- An Overview of Risk Allocation and Delivery Mode for Desalinated Water Supply Projects in Mining │ Richard Dixon
- Groundwater Recharge Estimates in Mine Site Using Integrated Hydrological Model: Review and Critique │ Mundzir Basri, Miad Jarrahi, Estefany Tisza, Pramod Pokharel and Bernard Ayumu
- Managing AMD during Design and Construction of the Expanded Bunker Hill Central Treatment Plant │ Charles Hand and Doug Lee
- Restoring Performance of RO Membranes with Severe Scaling from Contaminated Tailing Pond Water Source Using Specialty Cleaners │ Mazen Ellabban, Amit Sankhe and Ryan Furukawa
- Engineered Controls to Mitigate Nitrate Leaching from Explosives in Blast Holes │ Johan Hawinkel
Chapter 2 - Mine Water Characterization and Prediction
- Transient Simulation of Dewatering to Estimate Potential Effects on Water Resources for an Open Pit Lithium Mine in North Carolina │ Shane McDonald, Cynthia Maroney, Vincent Carsillo, Jillian Troyer and Mark Filardi
- Seamlessly Integrated Modelling Approach: From Conceptual Geological to Numerical Models │ Mundzir Basri, Miad Jarrahi, Pramod Pokharel, Estefany Tisza and Bernard Ayumu
- Investigating Ammonia Loading Mechanisms at an Underground Gold Mine │ Pascal Marcotte, Bethany Hodgins and Matthew Gillman
- The Model is Wrong, Get Over It – Uncomfortable Truths and Decision Making with Mathematical Models │ Jason Morrissey, Mary Jeddere-Fisher, Jeremy (Jez) Lofts, Martin Lacroix and Chris Sonntag
- Mineral Reaction and Solute Loading Rates from Field ARD Test Pads at the Bagdad Mine in Arizona │ Madhumitha Raghav, Jessica Szaro, Trika Graham and Brent Callen
- Watershed Recovery in the Elliot Lake Area 20 Years Post Closure – Monitoring Program Design and Lessons Learned │ Jess Tester, Cynthia Russel, Deb Berthelot and Holly Heffner
Chapter 3 - Water Treatment
- Thermally Activated Minerals and Waste for Mine Water Treatment │ Iuliana Laura Calugaru, Rayen Tanabene, Mamadou Dia and Arnaud Grimault
- Complete Nitrate Removal Using a Novel Ion Exchange and Encapsulated Bacteria System │ William McLean, Jonathan Wright, LiAnn Goh and Sivan Iswaran
- A Novel Photocatalytic Approach to Passive Mine Water Treatment │ Jeffrey Martin, Zac Young, Tim Leshuk, Tia Chai and Frank Gu
- Biogeochemical Attenuation of Selenium and Nitrate in Mine Contact Waters │ Macoura Koné and Dickson Atuke
- Asset-Level Benchmarking of Water Use and Production Risk in the Mining Industry │ Raymond Philippe, Tom Verrept and Charles Cooper
- Innovative Approach to Active and Passive Water Treatment for Complex Water Quality Applications: The Removal and Recovery of Transition, Post-transition, Lanthanide, and Actinide Metals │ Joseph P. Laurino and Jeremy Scott Collyard
- Removal of Selenium by Reduction to Selenite and Surface Complexation │ Marc Laliberte and Myriam De Ladurantaye-Noël
- Laboratory-Scale Bioremediation Treatability Studies for Legacy Mines and Lessons Learned │ Leonard Santisteban, Dan Ramey and Barbara K. Nielsen
- Treatment of a Thickener Overflow in Metal Mining Using Membrane Separation Technologies │ Sanaz Mosadeghsedghi, Antonio Di Feo, Lucie Morin, Matthew Hudder, Konstantin Volchek and Saviz Mortazavi
- A Selective Sulfate Removal Plant Using an Innovative Approach to Ion Exchange │ William McLean, Drew Quinn and Sivan Iswaran
- Heavy Metal Removal from Polluted Waters Using Schoenoplectus californicus and Phragmites australis │ Maribel Guzman, Maggy Romero Arribasplata, Michael Flores Obispo and Sebastian Bravo Thais
- Metals Removal in a Two-Stage HDS Pilot Study on Concentrated Mine Water │ John Schubert and Sriram Ananthanarayan
- Evaluating Novel Organic Substrates for Sulfate-Reducing Biochemical Reactors Treating Mine Water │ Leonard Santisteban, Evelyn M. Miranda, Caleb McLaughlin, Anca G. Delgado, Siti Khodijah Chaerun, Shane Hansen, Dan Ramey and Nasser Hamdan
- Biological Treatment of Uranium at the Historical Schwartzwalder Mine, Colorado, USA │ Andrew G. Gault, Jim. M. Harrington, Elizabeth Busby, Rachelle M. Kleinberger, Rachel Martz and Vanessa P.M. Friesen
- Seven Years of PFAS Planning and Removal: Lessons Learned for the Mining Community │ Pierre Kwan
- Accurately Forecasting the Extra Treatment Cost Associated with Removal of Lesser Regulated PFAS Species in Water │ Jake Reardon and Matilda Kearney
Chapter 4 - Closure Water Management
- A Tiered Approach to the Successful Construction of a Sulphate-Rich Water Passive Treatment System │ J. Robinson, I. Andrews, J. Dodd, Olivia Milton Thompson and E. Clarke
- The State of “Zero Liquid Discharge” │ Joseph Tamburini and John Sainas
- Quellaveco Mine Water Supply, a Stewardship Approach │ Enrique Buschiazzo and Jason Reynolds
- A Tale of Two Treatment Systems: Evaluation of Active and Passive Treatment Strategies for a Legacy Mine │ Tyler Doughty, Leonard Santisteban, Charles Bryce, David Gosen and Dan Ramey
- Optimizing Contact Water Treatment during the Lupin Mine Closure │ James McKinley, Alvin Tong, and Karyn Lewis
Chapter 5 - Water and Tailings Management
- Review of Internet-of-Things Enabled Monitoring Systems for Tailings Storage Facilities │ Vincent Le Borgne, Adam Dulmage, Ali Siamaki and Alexandre Cosentino
- Painted into a Regulatory Corner: Next Steps for Oilsands Closure Planning │ Lindsay Tallon and Terryn Kuzyk
- Market Viable Products from Mine Tailings │ Stefka Ormsby, Dan Ramey and Tara Hosick
- Quantifying Flood-Induced Risk to Tailings Embankment Stability: Avoiding the Alarmist Model │ Assaf Wunsch, Goktug Evin and John Mayer
- Towards Autonomous Tailings and Pit Lake Monitoring with Amphibious Robots │ Nicolas A. Olmedo, Michael G. Lipsett, Jamie Yuen and Craig Milne