Date: Monday 28 July 2025
Time: 12:30pm - 5:00pm
Location: Lvl 6, Thiess Building, 179 Grey St, South Brisbane (10 minute walk from conference venue)
Speakers: Allan Morton, Bryan Maybee, Ian Dover
Maximum: 50 participants
Cost: Member @ $250pp (inc GST), Non-Member @ $300pp (inc GST), Student @ $150pp (inc GST)

Overview: Attendees will be given insights into the development of a new multicriteria business case assessment tool created to assess alternate PMLU with key stakeholders, to support collaborative selection of the next land use. The tool considers enterprise value of the future land use, social/community value, indigenous/heritage value and environmental/biodiversity value. enviroMETS Qld with support from CRC TiME, UK Land Trust, and other subject matter experts are developing and roadtesting this tool in 2025. By the date of the workshop, the tool would have been tested with stakeholder groups at a number of Queensland sites. Participants will have the opportunity to act as key stakeholders (miners, industry professionals, governments, local community, investors, etc) to collaboratively evaluate a number of PMLU options for a sample mine site/s – to identify and quantify the options that provide highest value.

You’ll also take away your own copy of the full list of drivers of environmental, cultural, regional, and economic value for your PMLU options as defined by our panel of experts from each discipline.

Date: Monday 28 July 2025
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Speakers: Edgar Salas (Technical Director) and Malcolm Baker (Senior Technical Director) from GHD, Leandro Santos (Senior Geotechnical Engineer) from KCB
Maximum: 60 participants
Cost: Member @ $550pp (inc GST), Non-Member @ $660pp (inc GST)

Overview: This short course provides a structured framework for identifying failure modes in tailings dams and translating them into effective monitoring and trigger level strategies. Participants will gain practical knowledge on assessing failure mechanisms, selecting appropriate instrumentation, and establishing trigger levels to enhance dam safety and risk management. The course will combine theoretical insights with interactive workshops, focusing on real-world applications for tailings dams with complex failure mechanisms, such as upstream-raised facilities.

Date: Monday 28 July 2025
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Speakers: Dr Hernan Cifuentes, Principal Tailings Consultant and Adjunct Associate Professor and Charles Vuillier, Technical Director – Tailings and Repurposing, Dr Chenming Zhang, Senior Research Fellow
Maximum: 60 participants
Cost: Member @ $550pp (inc GST), Non-Member @ $660pp (inc GST)

Overview: This one-day course aims to equip participants with practical knowledge, global trends, technical pathways, and case examples for remining, reprocessing and repurposing tailings materials. While the course highlights innovation, collaboration, and sustainability, it also focuses on proven, low-risk solutions already being implemented at mine sites and quarries today. The aim is to help mining professionals reimagine tailings not as waste but as a resource with real economic and environmental value; this is not about future potential but current opportunity – delivering operational, environmental, and economic benefits. These include reducing storage and closure costs, easing approval, and creating value-added products with industry partners without disrupting core operations.

Date: Monday 28 July 2025
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Speakers: Christopher N. Hatton PE (WSP), Theo Gerritson (Rio Tinto), David Williams (UQ)
Maximum: 32 participants
Cost: Member @ $550pp (inc GST), Non-Member @ $660pp (inc GST)

Overview: The CDA/USSD Tailings Dams Joint Working Group on Engineer of Record (EOR) will present a short course on developments related to the Terms of Reference (TOR) for EOR services for tailings dams. The TOR details the requirements, responsibilities, and obligations of the EoR and the mine owner (Owner) that engages the EoR. It is essential to the EoR/Owner relationship to clearly define the roles and expectations to set the team up for success. Each tailings dam is unique and, as it would follow, each TOR is equally unique. This short course will provide general guidance on what should be included in a TOR for EOR services, and the session will show examples of how the TOR benefits both owners and consultants. Example benefits include clearly defined lines of communication, appropriate battery limits, responsibilities during emergency response, and planning for conflict resolution. The TOR framework can be applied to all EOR models (internal owner EOR and external consultant EOR) and all styles of facilities (active, inactive, and closed). Participants will leave the short course with tools and examples to help them develop a new TOR, or review and evaluate how robust an existing TOR is.

Date: Thursday 31 July 2025
Time: 9:00am – 12:30pm 
Location: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre 
Speakers: Dr Simone Pedrini and Clara Schmidt
Maximum: 30 participants
Cost: Member @ $250pp (inc GST), Non Member @ $300pp (inc GST), First Nations Delegates @ $150pp (inc GST), Student @ $150pp (inc GST)

Overview: This workshop will discuss the principles and present new scientific and practical outcomes to strengthen each step of the native seed supply chain. Native seeds are a key component of most ecological restoration projects. The International Network for Seed-Based Restoration (INSR), a thematic section of the Society of Ecological Restoration (SER), in collaboration with a wide range of international experts, has developed the First International Standards for Native Seeds in Ecological Restoration (2020). In this series of papers, each step of the native seed supply chain is analysed in depth and recommendations on how to improve the science and practice underpinning the reliable supply and effective use of native seeds are provided. Since the Native Seed Standards were published, numerous researchers and practitioners (from around the world) have been performing experiments and developing new methodologies and technologies to address the major bottlenecks in the native seed supply chain. The workshop will focus on robust ecological and economic solutions implemented with industry, along with micro credential training pathways for First Nations communities.

Date: Thursday 31 July 2025
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Officers Mess, 50 Oxlade Drive, New Farm
Speakers:

• Allan McConnell, Founder, Insitu Geotech Services (IGS)
• David Williams, Emeritus Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at UQ
• Tierney Boulter, Australian General Manager of Conetec
• Marcelo Llano, Principal Geotechnical Engineer at Red Earth Engineering
• Robert William (Billy) Burke, Director of Black Geotechnical and Black Insitu Testing
• Mark Chapman, Managing Director of Insitu Geotech Services (IGS)
• Nick Schofield, Senior Geotechnical Engineer/Director at Black Geotechnical and Black Insitu Testing

Maximum: 40 participants
Cost: Member @ $550pp (inc GST), Non-Member @ $660pp (inc GST)
Inclusions: Return transfers from Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre and all catering is provided

Overview: This workshop will cover: CPT, DMT, Vane Shear Testing, undisturbed and other sampling. The focus will be characterisation of soft and very soft tailings materials. Particular emphasis will be given to potential and likely sources of error in characterisation, and practices and methods that can (should) be applied to overcome these.

Date: Thursday 31 July 2025
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Speakers: Olle Wennstrom and Clem Cahill from GHD, both Technical Directors and Engineers
Cost: Member @ $550pp (inc GST), Non-Member @ $660pp (inc GST)
Maximum: 60 participants

Overview: The course will be highly interactive and require enthusiastic participation from the trainees. During the course these and more items will be explained, discussed, and worked on in group sessions.

• A chronology of the causes of TSF failures.
• What is an emergency and what is a crisis, and how does it threaten the mining company and the surroundings?
• What are the dangers of a TSF failure? [This will flow along the line of Dam failure assessment – Failure Impact Assessment – Consequence category assessment – and lead to an image of the Danger of a TSF failure.]
• Case study, good and bad responses to emergencies caused by TSF failure.
• Roles and responsibilities pertaining to emergency preparedness and emergency response. [Daily operation – emergency. In the company and external to the company.]
• What does compliance with the GISTM and MAC 3.2 pertaining to emergency preparedness and response and long-term recovery require. [Outcome: Plan; Organisation; Competency]
• How is a response to an emergency, caused by a TSF failure built up? What are the critical elements?
• Coordination: What is it and how is it implemented? 
• How to meet these requirements and maintain the capability. 
• What does a good EPRP look like.

Thank you for registering to attend the Life of Mine I Mine Waste & Tailings Conferences 2025. Confirmation of your registration will be emailed to the address supplied. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to call the AusIMM Event Management on +61 3 9658 6120 or email conference@ausimm.com

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