Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this Congress. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for a detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available). The programme is preliminary and subject to change!

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 1st July 2025, 08:24:24pm WEST

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Session Overview

Location: A1 Buildind 1 - CP1, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal

Date: Monday, 07/July/2025
9:00am - 10:00am	OPENING CEREMONY Location: A1
10:00am - 10:40am	KeyNote 1 – “Between GEOLOGY and GEOPOLITICS: Mineral CRITICALITY”; Daniel Oliveira, LNEG Location: A1 Chair: Teresa Maria Valente
11:20am - 1:00pm	S01 - Acid Mine Drainage – Prevention, Monitoring and Control Location: A1 Chair: Margarida Horta Antunes
2:20pm - 4:00pm	S04 - Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Mine Geochemistry Location: A1 Chair: Anne Gädeke
4:40pm - 5:40pm	S08 - Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Mine Geochemistry Location: A1 Chair: Charles A Cravotta III
6:00pm - 8:00pm	Journal and Society Committee Meetings Location: A1

Date: Tuesday, 08/July/2025
9:00am - 9:40am	KeyNote 2 – “Sustainable Water Management in a Mining Operation; interactions and challenges from the surface to the underground. Case Study Neves Corvo”; Mafalda Oliveira, Somincor Location: A1 Chair: Teresa Maria Valente
9:40am - 10:40am	S11 - Acid Mine Drainage – Prevention, Monitoring and Control Location: A1 Chair: Nils Hoth
11:20am - 1:00pm	S15 - Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Mine Geochemistry Location: A1 Chair: Kym Lesley Morton
2:20pm - 4:00pm	S19 - Acid Mine Drainage – Prevention, Monitoring and Control Location: A1
4:40pm - 5:40pm	S23 - Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Mine Geochemistry Location: A1 Chair: Lloyd Richard Townley
6:20pm - 8:00pm	IMWA EC Meeting Location: A1

Date: Thursday, 10/July/2025
9:00am - 9:40am	KeyNote 3 – “PCBs in the Mining Environment 2.0 – From Silver Bullet to Dirty Dozen”; Chris Wolkersdorfer, Tshwane University of Technology Location: A1
9:40am - 10:40am	S26 - Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Mine Geochemistry Location: A1
11:20am - 1:00pm	S30 - Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Mine Geochemistry Location: A1 Chair: Adrian Brown
2:20pm - 4:00pm	S34 - Circular Economy and Resilience in Mining-influenced Water Location: A1
4:40pm - 5:40pm	S38 - Circular Economy and Resilience in Mining-influenced Water Location: A1 Chair: Hernan Flores

Date: Friday, 11/July/2025
9:00am - 9:40am	KeyNote 4 – “Alternative and sustainable dewatering technologies for sludge treatment, from comminution and washing processes of the extractive industry – Gouvães case study”; Nuno Faria, DST Group Location: A1 Chair: Margarida Horta Antunes
9:40am - 10:40am	S41 - Tailings and Tailings Ponds Location: A1 Chair: Rodrigo Alvarez
11:20am - 12:00pm	KeyNote 5 – “A Hydrogeochemist’s Mindful Toolkit: Conceptualization, Characterization, and modeling of Mine Sites Producing Acid Mine Drainage”; Kirk Nordstrom, US Geological Survey Location: A1 Chair: Christian Wolkersdorfer
12:00pm - 12:40pm	CLOSING CEREMONY Location: A1