Greg HancockThe University of Newcastle
Greg has worked in the area of landscape assessment and mining rehabilitation for the past 20 years. He has particular expertise in the use of computer based landscape evolution models for both current and proposed landscape assessment. He has worked across a wide range of projects, sites and climates both here in Australia and internationally for government agencies, mining companies as well as consultancy firms. He has published over 107 research and conference papers as well as numerous industry research reports.
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Workshop Précis
Geomorphic design and landscape evolution modelling for best practice mine rehabilitation
GR Hancock (1), JF Martín Duque (2)
1 School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Earth Science Building, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, 2308, Australia. Greg.Hancock@newcastle.edu.au
2 Faculty of Geology, Complutense University, 28040 Madrid, Spain. josefco@ucm.es
Mining is necessary for maintaining society’s current lifestyle and it will continue to grow at a global scale, even if the use of some mineral resources may decline. The generation of solid and liquid wastes and the discharge of these wastes on to land and into waterways are arguably the greatest impacts on the environment associated with mining. Geomorphology provides a very useful framework for understanding and quantifying stability and changes in erosion and sedimentation at those sites, which is the root of the release to wastes to the environment. But also for designing and building stable functional landforms in mine rehabilitation, processes can be improved through modelling and monitoring. Current cutting-edge research in this field tries to merge geomorphic landform design and modelling methods and packages, increasing their capabilities.
The workshop will focus on the independent and complementary capabilities of landscape modelling (SIBERIA) and geomorphic design software (Natural Regrade with GeoFluv) for best practice mine rehabilitation. This will be illustrated with software demonstrations and real examples.
Geomorphic design and landscape evolution modelling for best practice mine rehabilitation
GR Hancock (1), JF Martín Duque (2)
1 School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Earth Science Building, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, 2308, Australia. Greg.Hancock@newcastle.edu.au
2 Faculty of Geology, Complutense University, 28040 Madrid, Spain. josefco@ucm.es
Mining is necessary for maintaining society’s current lifestyle and it will continue to grow at a global scale, even if the use of some mineral resources may decline. The generation of solid and liquid wastes and the discharge of these wastes on to land and into waterways are arguably the greatest impacts on the environment associated with mining. Geomorphology provides a very useful framework for understanding and quantifying stability and changes in erosion and sedimentation at those sites, which is the root of the release to wastes to the environment. But also for designing and building stable functional landforms in mine rehabilitation, processes can be improved through modelling and monitoring. Current cutting-edge research in this field tries to merge geomorphic landform design and modelling methods and packages, increasing their capabilities.
The workshop will focus on the independent and complementary capabilities of landscape modelling (SIBERIA) and geomorphic design software (Natural Regrade with GeoFluv) for best practice mine rehabilitation. This will be illustrated with software demonstrations and real examples.
Workshop
Geomorphic design and landscape evolution modelling for best practice mine rehabilitation
Presented on 13th April 2018 at the 8th Annual Best Practice Ecological Rehabilitation of Mined Lands Conference (2018)
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The presentation for the 2nd half of this workshop will be available soon.
