Mine Design, Operations and Closure Conference
2017 Presentations
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Remediation in Southwest Montana Session
Revegetation after Mine Waste Removal and Metals Impacts: Examples from Western Montana Floodplains
Tom Parker, Geum Environmental Consulting & Stuart Jennings, KC Harvey Environmental
Montana Moonscapes: Mitigating Large-Scale Erosion on Steep Slope Uplands in Roadless Areas of the Anaconda Superfund Site
Pedro Marques, Big Hole Watershed Committee
Remediating and Restoring Smelter-Devastated Lands Ner Anaconda, Montana
Greg Mullen, Montana Natural Resource Damage Program & Rich Prodgers, Bighorn Environmental Sciences
The Clark Fork River Reach - A Remediation and Restoration Project
Bill Bucher, PE, CDM Smith
Items of Geological Interest Session
The World Class Talc Deposits of Montana
John Childs, Phd< Childs Geoscience, Inc.
Water Availability and Use at the Cripple Creek & Victor MIne Site
Ronald Parratt, Newmont Mining Corp.
On Foreign Soil Session
The Cultural Adventures of Sierra Leone - Mining and Beyond
Ruby B. Johnson, USDA Forest Service
Optimizing the Ecological Benefits of Different Reclamation Soils Across the Landscape in the Alberta MIneable Oil Sands Region
Brad Pinno, PhD, Canadian Forest Service
Tailings Failures and Risk Management Considerations
Dirk van Zyl, PhD, PE, P Eng, University of British Columbia
Dan Brown's "DaVinci Code" meets Indiana Jones: Exploration for Gold in the Amazon Region of Ecuador
Keith Barron, PhD, Aurania Resources, Ltd.
History & Archaeology Session
Mining History and Minerals: Bluebird Mine and Mill, Butte, Montana
Richard Gibson, Independent Geology & Historian
Ice Patch Archaeology and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Craig Lee, PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder & James Strait, Montana DEQ
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Water Treatment/Management Session
Applications of Microbiological Methods in Mine Waste/Water Management
Seth D'Imperio, PhD, Enviromin, Inc.
Proactive & Predictive Water Management of a Pit Lake used for Tailings Disposal, Humbolt Tailings Disposal Facility, Eagle Mine, Michigan
Jennifer Nutini, PE, Lundin Eagle Mine
Sulfate and Nitrate Removal from Mining Wastewaters using the Electro-Biochemical Reactor (EBR) Technology
Jane Fudyma, INOTEC
Embankment Underdrain for Nitrogen Source Reduction
Matt Wolfe, Stillwater MIning Company & Craig Hall, Knight Piesold Ltd.
Exploration & Outreach Session
Proactive Prospect Advancement: Discovery, Permitting, Community Outreach, and Pilot Drilling of the Clementine Prospect in the Northern Pioneer Mountains, Southwest Montana
George Brimhall, Clementine Exploration
Community Outreach in Exploration: An Example from Minnesota
Amanda Miller, Kennecott Exploration Company
Social Risks in the Mining Sector
Erik Carlson, AICP, ERM
Mine Design Session
Strata Energy's Central Processing Plant - A Design-Build Success Story
Beau Johnston, PE, Woodard Curran
Cost and Technically Effective Methods for Erosion and Sediment Control on Large Mine and Mine Reclamation Sites from Design into Construction
Martin Carlson, PE & Cody Lechleitner, PE, CDM Smith
Fort Knox Belt #1 Rehabilitation
Kris VanLuchene, PE & Tim White, PE, MOrrison Maierle
Tailings Impoundment Session
Tailings Impoundment Stabilization using Ground Improvement Technologies
Ken Brouwer, Knight Piesold Ltd.
Risk Analysis for Evaluation of Mine Impounded Water
Mike Gobla, PE, US Bureau of Reclamation
Tailings Dam Breach Analyses and Classification from a Canadian Perspective
Marc E. Orman, PE, GE, Amec Foster Wheeler
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Revisits (Oldies but Goodies) Session
Selection and Implementation of a Post-Closure Mine Dewatering System at the Chevron Mining, Inc., Questa Mine, New Mexico
Joe Gilbert, PG, GISP, Arcadis US, Inc.
Keeping the McDonald Candle Lit
Sonya Rosenthal, PE, Montana Tech
Update on Riley Pass
Mary Beth Marks, USDA Forest Service
Reclamation/Remediation Session
Source Control: Is it too Good to be True?
Paul Eger, Sovereign Consulting
Extracting Value from Mine Waste
Andrew Harley, PhD, DuraRoot Environmental Consulting
Successful Erosion Control and Revegetation Techniques for MIne Reclamation
Michael Vice, Consulting Reclamationist
Reclamation in Times of Fiscal Restraint - What are the Opportunities?
David Polster, Polster Environmental Services Ltd.