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​Conference Program

​The conference program has now been finalised.

This year brings an exciting program of conference presenters, panel discussion, mine tours and workshops. Thursday has an amazing and diverse selection of 12 presentations in mine rehabilitation, across the fields of research, policy and industry. Thursday also sees the opportunity for poster presenters to introduce themselves and their poster to the delegates. This year's panel discussion topic, included in Thursday's program, is "Pathways to relinquishment and opportunities to transition to productive alternate land uses".

The conference has been extended this year by an additional half-day to allow for more time for speakers. Presentations on Friday include six interesting talks in research and industry, concluding at 11:00am.

Following the conclusion of main conference there is an opportunity for delegates to attend a workshop (at the same venue).  The workshops need to be separately booked and cost $80 per attendee. There are two parallel streams running:

• Stream  1 "Pathways to relinquishment and opportunities to transition to productive alternate land uses"
• Stream 2 "New practices to advance mine rehab in the Hunter Valley"

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PROGRAM - WEDNESDAY
Start Time	Duration	Event Details
11.15am	30 min		Mine Site Tour 2  (11.15am - 5.30pm)
11.45am	3 Hours 30 min	Mine Site Tour 1 (11.45am - 5.30pm) Muswellbrook Coal and BHP Billiton – Mt Arthur Coal	Mount Thorley Warkworth and Rix's Creek
3.00pm	2 hours			Wednesday Workshop (3pm-5pm) Landform evolution modelling for mine rehabilitation EAMS-SIBERIA
5.00pm	30 min
5.30pm	30 min
6.00pm	1 hour	Welcome Event | Host = Muswellbrook Council (VIPs and Presenters)
7.00pm

PROGRAM - THURSDAY
Start Time	Duration	Presenter and Title of Presentation
8.30am	5 min	Tim Roberts, Director Tom Farrell Institute
		Welcome and open first day of conference
8.35am	5 min	Venue Safety Announcement
8.40am	5 min	Steve Fordham
		Welcome to Country
8.45am	5 min	David Blackmore, Director Environmental Sustainability, NSW Department of Industry
		Overview of the Division of Resources and Energy and its role in regards to mine rehabilitation
8.50am	20 min	Matthew Newton, Assistant Director Environmental Regulation and Standards, NSW Department of Industry
		Rehabilitation regulatory reform project
9.10am	5 min	Question Time
9.15am	15 min	Penny Dunstan, University of Newcastle
		Pointy and Flatty - what two Cornish alps can tell us about the interaction of human imagination and post mining landform
9.30 am	5 min	Question Time
9.35am	20 min	Travis Peake, Practice Leader Ecology, Umwelt (Australia) Pty Limited
		The landscape benefits of ecological mine rehabilitation - a Hunter Valley perspective
9.55am	5 min	Question Time
10.00am	30 min	Poster Presentations (2 min each)
10.30am	30 min	MORNING TEA
11.00am	5 min	Greg Sullivan, Director Policy, NSW Minerals Council
		NSWMC rehabilitation strategy incorporating policy work, research projects and communication/awareness activities, and overview of Synoptic Plan workshop - any outcomes from previous week, work with DRE, DPC and DPE on rehabilitation
11.05am	20 min	Karin Fogarty, Environmental Advisor – Peabody Energy, Wilpinjong Coal Mine
		Update on current rehabilitation practices at Wilpinjong Coal Mine
11.25am	5 min	Question Time
11.30am	20 min	Ben Clibborn, Environment and Community Manager – Oceanic Coal
		Glencore’s Westside Mine - Industry Presentation
11.50am	5 min	Question Time
11.55am	20 min	Neil Griffiths, Technical Specialist Pastures, NSW Department of Primary
		Industries
		Heavy metals, trace elements, pasture and cattle observations from the Upper Hunter Mine Grazing Study
12.15pm	5 min	Question Time
12.20pm	20 min	Shannon Mulholland, Technical Officer, Department of Primary Industries - Biosecurity and Food Safety
		Mining and biosecurity
12.40pm	5 min	Question Time
12.45pm	45 min	LUNCH BREAK
1.30pm	5 min	Welcome back following break
1.35pm	1 hour	PANEL DISCUSSION - Pathways to relinquishment and opportunities to transition to productive alternate land uses
		Chaired by Peter Elliott, Independent Consultant
		Panellists: Gary Ellem, Andrew Keith, Martin Rush, Matthew Newton, Richard Bush
2.35pm	20 min	Howard Wildman, Chief Scientist, Microbial Management Systems
		Microbial functional diversity - its importance to ecosystem function, and choice as a mine soil restoration objective
2.55pm	5 min	Question Time
3.00pm	20 min	Nanthi Bolan, The University of Newcastle
		Sources and management of acid mine drainage
3.20pm	5 min	Question Time
3.25pm	20 mins	AFTERNOON TEA
3.45pm	5 min	Welcome back following break
3.50pm	20 min	Laura Kuginis, Snr Scientist/ Restoration Science and Implementation, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage
		Towards best practice monitoring and assessment of self-sustainability for ecological rehabilitation of mined land
4.10pm	5 min	Question Time
4.15pm	20 min	Carmen Castor, CSER Research
		Sustainable ecological communities on mine rehabilitation
4.35pm	5 min	Question Time
4.40pm	20 min
		TBA
5.00pm	5 min	Question Time
5.05pm	5 min	Chair Close Conference for Thursday

PROGRAM - FRIDAY
Start Time	Duration	Presenter and Title of Presentation
8.30am	5 min	Tim Roberts, Director Tom Farrell Institute
		Welcome and open second day of conference
8.35am	15 min	Didik Triwibowo, Quality Health Safety Environment (QHSE) Compliance Manager PT Adaro Indonesia
		Managing pit lakes water quality at coal mine of PT Adaro Indonesia
8.50am	5 min	Question Time
8.55am	15 min	Chris Gimber, National Environment Manager, KBR  and Brad O’Reilly, Principal Environmental Engineer, New Hope Group
		Backfill or not.  Water management considerations during rehabilitation
9.10am	5 min	Question Time
9.15am	15 min	Corinne Unger, Senior Research Officer, Sustainable Minerals Institute
		Facilitating retention of mine rehabilitation and closure knowledge for central Queensland coal mines
9.30am	5 min	Question Time
9.35am	15 min	MORNING TEA BREAK
9.50am	20 min	Simit Raval, UNSW Australia
		High resolution imaging for mine rehabilitation using UAV-Hyperspectral technology
10.10am	5 min	Question Time
10.15am	15 min	Greg Hancock, The University of Newcastle
		Sustainable mine rehabilitation - two decades of soil erosion and landscape evolution modelling
10.30am	5 min	Question Time
10.35am	15 min	Grant Dickins, Naturally Spatial Pty Ltd
		Comparative evaluation of sediment yield from native and fluvial geomorphic reclamation
10.50am	5 min	Question Time
10.55am	5 min	Stretch Break
11.00am	1.5 hours	Workshop Stream 1	Workshop Stream 2
		Pathways to relinquishment and opportunities to transition to productive alternate land uses	New practices to advance mine rehab in the Hunter Valley
		Convenors: Peter Elliott and Donna Pershke	Convenors: A/Prof Michael Hitch, Dr Simit Raval and Dr Wendy Timms, UNSW.
12.30pm	30 mins	LUNCH BREAK
1.00pm	1.5 hours	Workshop 1 Continues	Workshop 2 Continues
2.30pm		CONFERENCE CLOSES