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Critical Aspects of Water Management in Mining

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The Critical Aspects of Water Management in Mining workshop looks at the important facets of mine water management including techniques and tools like:

  • Recycling and reuse
  • Water and chemical mass balance modeling and how they can be applied during operations
  • Water treatment technologies
  • The connection between energy and water during operations and closure
  • The community / water link

Given the fundamental nature of water to mining, understanding the critical aspects of mine water management is key! With so much of a project’s outcome riding on water, solid mine water management plans are an essential component of every mine development, operation and closure plan.

This dynamic workshop will address multiple components of mine water management in an interactive setting. The workshop will make use of multiple case studies to explain each concept.

If you’re looking for an expansive discussion of mine water management, the course is for you!

Objective

Participants will leave with a solid understanding of the importance of water management strategy and planning as well as and in-depth overview of the critical aspects of water management.

Target Audience

This workshop is targeted at participants who:

  • Have or anticipate having water challenges at their site or want to optimize their current practices.
  • Want to engage in a broad and challenging discussion about mine water management best practices,

About the Facilitators:

Patrick G. Corser, P.E.
Global Mining Practice Leader

Pat Corser has more than 34 years of engineering and construction experience working on civil, geotechnical, and environmental projects for mining clients. He has managed mine development and closure projects as well as reclamation plans for numerous mines in North and South America and throughout Europe. His specific areas of technical expertise all involve water: design and construction of containment systems for mine waste disposal (tailing and waste rock facilities) and mine closure and reclamation. As a result, water, water management, water excesses and shortages, water challenges resulting in the need for storage and water quality management are his prime areas of interest. As Practice Leader for MWH’s Global Natural Resource Sector, Mr. Corser is involved in conceptual, basic, and detailed engineering as well as senior project review for MWH’s services to the mining industry which includes environmental baseline and permitting studies, mine water supply and water resource management, civil infrastructure, environmental monitoring, waste product handling, mine closure/reclamation and remediation. Mr. Corser is based in MWH’s Vancouver, BC operations.

Tatyana Alexieva
Global Water & Tailing Management Lead

Ms. Alexieva is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer with over 25 years of experience in providing services to the mining industry in North and South America, Africa, Australia, Asia and Europe. She has extensive knowledge of the water related challenges of the mining industry and has performed numerous mine water balance and related water studies. Her experience includes all aspects of the water efficient design, operation and closure of tailing impoundments, heap leach facilities, waste dumps and mine ponds. Throughout her career she has performed a wide range of risk assessments for mine sites with the goal of improving the technical, environmental and social aspects of the mine facilities in various stages of their life cycle. Over the last few years she participated in the work of the ICOLD Technical Committee on Tailing Dams and had an active role in writing the latest technical bulletin entitled Sustainable Design and Post-closure Performance of Tailing Dams. In 2011 she was recognized as an Outstanding Women Engineer by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC).

Daniel P. Dupon, PE
Mine Water Treatment Engineer

Mr. Dupon managed and performed feasibilities studies, treatability test work, and prepared designs for mine water treatment systems throughout the western U.S.. He has conducted the field operations for temporary and pilot treatment systems at mine sites and has also provided water treatment technical services at a number of CERCLA sites, including the California Gulch and Summitville sites in Colorado and the Coeur d’Alene district in Idaho.

Mr. Dupon is experienced with the treatment of mining-impacted waters, their inherent chemical complexity, and the broadening field of advanced treatment technologies. He offers a unique ability to define solutions for a vast array of water-quality challenges. During his 20 years of experience in the field, he has been dedicated to developing and implementing treatment investigations that range from conceptual process development and bench-scale tests to full-scale design and operation. The range of technologies that Mr. Dupon has direct experience with includes membrane separation (reverse osmosis and nanofiltration), lime softening, enhanced coagulation, ion exchange, and biological reduction. His primary focus has been the evaluation and recommendation of treatment processes for mine wastewaters, as part of reclamation planning and water management. In addition, many of these projects have involved assessing the technical feasibility of passive and innovative technologies, with the objective of developing costs to support the selection of appropriate long-term, remediation alternatives.