Session 4D - LoM Tailings Management
Life of Mine
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 |
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
P10&11 |
Speaker
Dr Ingrid Meek
Principal Rehabilitation & Reclamation
Okane Consultants
Session Chair
Biography
Dr Corinne Unger
Research Fellow
UQ Business School, and UQ SMI Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining
Above and below the residual risk iceberg: insidious risks of LOM, mine waste and tailings
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Corinne Unger completed her PhD on insidious risk management in 2021 in The UQ Business School. Her research applied organisational theory to the empirical context of mine rehabilitation and closure. Her PhD followed a 30+ year career in the mining sector in industry, government and consulting for active and abandoned mine management. Corinne is a Churchill Fellow, having studied leading practice abandoned mine rehabilitation and post-mining use in Europe, UK and Canada in 2009. She received a professional excellence award from AusIMM and is AusIMM's representative on the Australian Mirror Committee developing ISO standards under 'Sustainable Mining and Mine Closure'. Corinne is currently a p/t research fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, and a Board Member of the Mine Land Rehabilitation Authority in Victoria.
Mr Joe Isarua
Snr Mine Planning Engineer
Ok Tedi Mining Limited
Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML) LOM Studies
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Highly motivated open cut mining engineer with +10 years industry experience having strengths in mine planning, pit designs, scheduling, pit sequencing, mine production, reporting and drill & blast with an open view for success in any career driven opportunity.
Dr Ingrid Meek
Principal Rehabilitation & Reclamation
Okane Consultants
Q&A with Session Chair
5:15 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
