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          • Eduardo Arellano
          • Jo-Anne Everingham
          • Yudi Firmanul Arifin
          • Thomas Baumgartl
          • Gede Widiada
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          • Charles Lee
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          • Sonia Shilpi
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      • Coal Dissolution Testing
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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"

Click here to download and print the Conference Program
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  
Workshops

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T: +61 2 4921 7037
E: tim.roberts@newcastle.edu.au  

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