Conference Agenda

Overview of Metal & Coal Mines in Wales

Peter Brabham

Cardiff University, United Kingdom

New Developments in Tailings Dam Monitoring

Kym Lesley Morton

KLM Consulting Services, South Africa

Offscreen-Break Due to No-show or Last Minute Cancellation

IMWA 2021 Organizers

International Mine Water Association

REE Enrichment Pattern in Acid Mine Drainage and Overburden from Coal Mine in Indonesia

Abie Badhurahman, Rudy Sayoga Gautama, Ginting Jalu Kusuma

Department of Mining Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

Natural Tracers For Mine Water Fingerprinting – A First Step To A Hydrogeochemical Monitoring Plan For Risk Assessment During Mine Water Rebound In The Ruhr District Area, Germany

Henning Jasnowski-Peters, Christian Melchers

Research Center of Post Mining, Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola - University, Bochum, Germany

Simulation of Column Leach Tests using Reactive Transport Modelling

Yuan Tian¹, Johan Fourie², Brent Usher²

1: Golder Associates, Australia; 2: Klohn Crippen Berger , Australia

Application of Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Mine Water Hydrogeochemical Studies of the Outcropped Upper Carboniferous, Ruhr Area, Germany

Tuan Quang Tran^1,2, Andre Banning^1,3, Stefan Wohnlich¹

1: Hydrogeology Department, Faculty of Geosciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; 2: Hydrogeology Department, Faculty of Geosciences and Geoengineering, Hanoi University of Mining and Geology, Vietnam; 3: School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland

Steel Slag-Limestone Reactor with Resistance to Fe: Laboratory and Pilot Scale Evaluations of Mn Treatment Efficiency

Duk-Min Kim^1,2, Youn-Soo Oh^2,3, Hyun-Sung Park², Dae-Gyu Im¹, Woong-Lim Lim¹, Hye-Rim Kwon¹, Joon-Hak Lee^2,4

1: Sangji University, Republic of Korea; 2: Korea Mine Reclamation Corporation (MIRECO), Republic of Korea; 3: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea University, Republic of Korea; 4: Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea

Offscreen-Break Due to No-show or Last Minute Cancellation

IMWA 2021 Organizers

International Mine Water Association

Magnetic Coagulation Technology For Coal Gasification Wastewater Treatment

Jianlei Gao¹, Yan Liu¹, Yixin Yan¹, Wenhao Wang²

1: School of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University 450001, Henan, China; 2: Zhengzhou University Design and Research Institute Co.Ltd., China

Final Treatment Trials On Cwm Rheidol - Ystumtuen Mines Discharges, Wales, Using Sono-electrochemistry (Electrolysis With Assisted Power Ultrasound)

Peter Clive Stanley¹, Chris Bullen²

1: Natural Resources Wales, United Kingdom; 2: Power & Water

Scale-up of Electrochemical Units for Mining Waters Treatment

Maria Mamelkina, Ritva Tuunila, Antti Häkkinen

LUT University, Finland

Effects of pH on arsenic mineralogy and stability in Poldice Valley, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Julian Tang¹, Eric Oelkers², Julien Declercq¹, Rob Bowell¹

1: SRK Consulting, 17 Churchill Way, Cardiff, CF10 2HH, UK; 2: University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

Mobilization Of Environmentally Hazardous Elements Dressing Tailings Of Loparite Ores Under Atmospheric Precipitation

Eugenia Krasavtseva^1,2, Dmitry Makarov¹, Vladimir Masloboev¹, Victoria Maksimova^1,2, Anton Svetlov¹

1: Institute of the industrial ecology problems of the North, Kola Science Center RAS, Russian Federation; 2: Laboratory of Nature-Inspired Technologies and Environmental Safety of the Arctic of the Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”

Variability in Mine Waste Mineralogy and Water Environment Risks: a Case Study on the River Almond Catchment, Scotland.

Simon Haunch¹, Alan MacDonald², Christopher McDermott³

1: Scottish Environment Protection Agency, 231 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh; 2: British Geological Survey, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh; 3: School of Geoscience, Grant Institute, James Hutton Road, Edinburgh

🎓 Assessing Heavy Elements In Tailings Water Around A Uranium Mine In Namibia

Vera Uushona^1,2, Manny Mathuthu¹

1: North-West University (Mafikeng), South Africa; 2: National Radiation Protection Authority of Namibia, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Harvey Street, Namibia

The Use of Industrial Alkaline Wastes to Neutralise Acid Drain Water from Waste Rock Piles

Nikolay Maksimovich, Vadim Khmurchik, Olga Meshcheriakova, Artem Demenev, Olga Berezina

Natural Science Institute of Perm State University, Russian Federation

Design, Operation, and Preliminary Findings from a Field Acid Rock Drainage (ARD) Study at the Bagdad Copper Mine in Arizona

Madhumitha Raghav¹, Jessica Szaro¹, Trika Graham², Brent Callen²

1: Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.; 2: Freeport-McMoRan Bagdad, Inc.

Trace Element (As, F, U) Contamination and Hydrogeochemistry in the Vicinity of a Mexican Ore Mine

Andre Banning^1,2, Desiree Schwertfeger¹, Sócrates Alonso Torres³, Antonio Cardona Benavides⁴

1: Hydrogeology Department, Faculty of Geosciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; 2: School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland; 3: Postgraduate Program in Minerals Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico; 4: Earth Sciences Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Effect of Mining to Water Quality in Chua and Revué Rivers, Mozambique

Clemencio Nhantumbo¹, Estevao Pondja¹, Dinis Juizo¹, Antonio Cumbane¹, Nelson Matsinhe¹, Bruno Paqueleque¹, Miguel Uamusse¹, Gretchen Gettel², Mário Franca^2,3, Paolo Paron²

1: Univerisidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique; 2: IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education; 3: Delft University of Technology

Efficacies of Pervious Concrete and Zero-valent iron as Reactive Media for Treating Acid Mine Drainage

Ayanda Nomaswazi Shabalala

University of Mpumalanga, South Africa

🎓 Prediction Of Water Quality Parameters Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Multispectral Imagery In Acidic Water Bodies In The Iberian Pyrite Belt (Tharsis, SW Spain)

Melisa Alejandra Isgró^1,2, María Dolores Basallote¹, Luis Barbero²

1: Department of Earth Sciences, Research Center on Natural Resources, Health and the Environment (RENSMA), University of Huelva, Campus El Carmen s/n, 21071 Huelva, Spain; 2: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cádiz, Campus Universitario de Puerto Real, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain

Process For The Subsoil Treatment Of Acidified Groundwater Through Microbial Sulfate Reduction

Ralph Schöpke¹, Manja Walko², Konrad Thürmer³

1: Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany; 2: Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH; 3: Institut für Wasserwirtschaft, Siedlungswasserbau und Ökologie (IWSÖ GmbH)

Solvent Extraction To Recover Copper From Extreme Acid Mine Drainage

Amir Nobahar^1,2, Alemu Melka^1,2, Jorge Carlier¹, Maria Clara Costa^1,2

1: Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), University of the Algarve, Gambelas Campus, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal; 2: Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of the Algarve, Gambelas Campus, 8005 139 Faro, Portugal

Enhancing Biological Nitrogen Removal from Mine Site Water in Cold Climate

Piia Juholin¹, Kirsi-Marja Haanpää¹, Elena Torresi², Fernando Morgan-Sagastume²

1: AFRY Finland Oy; 2: AnoxKaldnes - Veolia Water Technologies AB

Innovative Adaptation of Mining Hydrogeology Practices during a Pandemic

Sofia Nazaruk, Grace Yungwirth, Jessica Nicholls, Gareth Digges La Touche

Golder Associates (UK) Limited

Employment Of A Double Continuum Model To Characterize Groundwater Flow In Underground Post-Mining Setups: Case Study Of The Ibbenbüren Westfield

Diego Bedoya-Gonzalez^1,2, Timo Kessler², Maria-Theresia Schafmeister²

1: Department of Geography and Geology, University of Salzburg, Austria; 2: Institute for Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Germany

The Relationships Between Negative Pore-water Potential, Water Content, Relative Humidity and Sulfide Oxidation in Waste Rock -- a Case Study

Eben Dy¹, Kidus Tufa¹, Elizabeth Fisher¹, Zhong-Sheng {Simon} Liu¹, Kevin Morin², Michael O'Kane³, Tim O'Hearn⁴, Cheng Huang¹, Qu Wei¹

1: National Research Council Canada; 2: Minesite Drainage Assessment Group; 3: O’Kane Conultants Inc.; 4: Bureau Veritas

Numerical Modelling of Transient Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport at the Myra Falls Mine Site

Mahmoud Hussein¹, Paul Ferguson¹, Christoph Wels¹, Nicole Pesonen²

1: Robertson GeoConsultants Inc. (RGC), Canada; 2: Nyrstar Myra Falls, Campbell River, Canada

Quantification of Environmental Risk of U and Th in Witwatersrand Gold-Mine Tailings, South Africa

Robert Neill Hansen

Univeristy of the Free State, South Africa

A Multicomponent Reactive Transport Modeling Toolbox for Prediction of Drainage Quality from Mine Waste Facilities

Muhammad Muniruzzaman¹, Teemu Karlsson², Päivi M. Kauppila²

1: Water Management Solutions, Geological Survey of Finland, Finland; 2: Circular Economy Solutions, Geological Survey of Finland, Finland