International Mine Water Association Conference
6–11 July 2025 | Braga, Portugal & Oviedo, Spain
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: 9th May 2025, 10:18:55pm WEST
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Session Overview | |
Location: Main Hall Buildind 1 - CP1, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal |
Date: Monday, 07/July/2025 | |
8:30am - 9:00am |
Registration Location: Main Hall |
10:40am - 11:20am |
COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS & EXHIBITION Location: Main Hall |
1:00pm - 2:20pm |
LUNCH Location: Main Hall |
4:00pm - 4:40pm |
COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS & EXHIBITION Location: Main Hall |
5:40pm - 6:00pm |
EXHIBITION Location: Main Hall |
Date: Tuesday, 08/July/2025 | |
8:30am - 9:00am |
Registration Location: Main Hall |
10:40am - 11:20am |
COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS & EXHIBITION Location: Main Hall |
1:00pm - 2:20pm |
LUNCH Location: Main Hall |
4:00pm - 4:40pm |
COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS & EXHIBITION Location: Main Hall |
5:40pm - 6:20pm |
POSTER SESSION Location: Main Hall Study of the flooding of coal mines in Asturias. Possibilities for the use of mining reservoirs University of Oviedo, Spain Ion exchange to recover Rare Earth Elements from acid mine drainage 1: Centro de Desenvolvimento Da Tecnologia Nuclear; 2: Universidade Pungue Experimental Study on the Damage Mechanism of Coal Pillars in Abandoned Mines under Immersion Conditions 1: China University of Mining and Technology, China; 2: China Railway No.6 Engineering Group Co., Ltd., China A Novel approach to hydrogeochemical risk assessment based on short-term tests Consultoria Geologica, SL (CONGEO), Spain Probabilistic analysis of human health risks linked to Procambarus Clarkii consumption in Almadén Hg Mining District 1: Instituto de Geología Aplicada, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Pl. Manuel Meca, 1. 13400 Almadén (Ciudad Real), Spain; 2: Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Facultad de Ingeniería en Ciencias de La Tierra, Campus Gustavo Galindo km 30.5 vía Perimetral, P.O. Box 09‑01‑5863, Guayaquil, Ecuador; 3: Centro Universitario de Investigación del agua (CUIDA), Escuela Politécnica de Mieres. C/ Gonzalo Gutiérrez Quiros s/n. 33600 Mieres Key drivers of metal removal in constructed wetlands treating acid mine drainage revealed by machine learning China University of Geosciences From deep mineral exploration to mine closure: Why groundwater matters Politechnika Wrocławska, Poland An approach to green corrosion inhibitors in acid mine drainage (AMD) 1: Universidad Oviedo, Spain; 2: Instituto STEM Minestech, Spain Experimental approach to designing a flushing system for SAPS pond KIGAM, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) MCA – Water Quality Risk Assessment Tool Institute for Groundwater Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa Physico-chemical characterisation of pit lakes using Google Earth Engine: Chilean case study. 1: Universidad Mayor, Chile; 2: SRK Consulting, Denver, Colorado, USA Tracing current pollutants discharged into the environment from mining sources and the determination of interactions between surface and/or groundwater with pollutants. A case of Iron Duke Mine and surrounding active mines. 1: University of Zimbabwe, Environmental Management Agency, Zimbabwe; 2: University of Zimbabwe Use of industrial by-products to prevent/reduce water contamination with As and Hg University of Oviedo, Spain H₂-based membrane biofilm reactors for sulfate removal from mining process water Universidad de Concepcion, Chile Manganese(II) removal bioreactor system of mine drainage is dominated by chemolithotrophic manganese oxidizing microorganisms 1: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; 2: Akita Prefectural University, Japan Advanced Monitoring of Abandoned Mining Sites with High-Resolution UAV Technology 1: ICT – Institute of Earth Sciences, pole of University of Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal,; 2: GEOBIOTEC, Geosciences department, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Investigating the Effects of Storm Events on the Temporal Dynamics of Acid Mine Drainage Loads in Receiving Streams of the Lusatian Lignite Mining District (Germany) 1: Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Cottbus, Germany; 2: Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany Depression and Dewatering Characteristics of Kaolinite in View of the Reprocessing of Ultrafine Colliery Waste Centre for Minerals Research, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X03, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa Improved Acidity Estimation by Integrating Comprehensive Dissolved Metal(oid)s Data: A Geochemical Modeling Case Study of Highly Mineralized Mine Waters 1: ICT – Institute of Earth Sciences, pole of University of Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.; 2: Cravotta Geochemical Consulting LLC, Bethel, USA, cravottageochemical@gmail.com, ORCID 0000-0003-3116-4684; 3: GEOBIOTEC, Geosciences Department, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Sensible communication strategy in mine water related licensing processes Ministerium für Umwelt, Klima, Mobilität, Agrar und Verbraucherschutz, Germany Study of An Integrated Management Scheme for Acid Mine Drainage Generating Mine Tailings Resources Valorization, Environment and Sustainable Development Research Team (RVESD), Department of Mines, Mines School of Rabat, Ave Hadj Ahmed Cherkaoui, BP 753, Agdal, Rabat 10090, Morocco Zinc Recovery from Abandoned Mine Drainage: Insights from the Freiberg Mining Region, Germany Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany Arsenate and chromate attenuation in acid mine drainage systems 1: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain; 2: Luleå University of Technology, Sweden; 3: Federal University of Viçosa, Brasil; 4: University of Minho, Portugal Acidic Affected by Acid Mine Drainage – A Case of Extreme Contamination ICT, Institute of Earth Sciences, Pole of the University of Minho, Earth Sciences Department, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 Braga, Portugal Influence of reactive media on microbial sulfate reduction at two distinct temperatures Uppsala University, Sweden Democratizing mine-water operations and modelling DHI Iber as a flood nowcasting and forecasting software suite for mine managers Flumen Research Institute, Spain Metal(loid)s in sediments and assessment of environmental contamination in the Rumblar reservoir (La Carolina mining district, Spain) 1: Department of Geology and CEACTEMA, University of Jaen, Spain; 2: Water Research Institute, University of Granada, Spain; 3: Département Mines & Minéralurgie, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Rabat, Morocco Exploring the Potential of Hydrochar for the Removal of Toxic Metals from Mining-Influenced Waters: A Case Study on Arsenic 1: Universidad de Oviedo, Spain; 2: INCAR-CSIC Hydrogeological and hydrological modelling of the impact of water resources on mineral resource production Centre Géosciences, MINES PARIS - PSL, France Multi-variable Analysis for Fault Identification and Hydraulic Characterization Itasca, Chile Characterization of core samples and mechanisms of zinc leaching in a waste rock dump of abandoned mines 1: Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Japan; 2: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Secondary Minerals from Evolved Mine Waters: A Detailed Survey in Almadén Historic Mercury Mine Gallery 1: ICT – Institute of Earth Sciences, Pole of University of Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; 2: Instituto de Geología Aplicada, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Pl. Manuel Meca 1, 13400 Almadén, Ciudad Real, Spain; 3: Escuela de Ingeniería Minera E Industrial de Almadén, 13400 Almadén, Ciudad Real, Spain; 4: ISYMAResearch Group, Mining, Energy and Materials Engineering School, University of Oviedo, C/ Independencia 13, 33011 Oviedo, Spain Electrochemical and biobased solutions in mine waste to facilitate the net zero-carbon transition University of Queensland, Australia Possible value recovery from abundant gold mine dumps and waterbodies in Krugersdorp, South Africa University of Pretoria, South Africa Water Management in Iron Ore Mining: Regression Models for Optimizing Water Use in Mining Complexes 1: Vale, Brazil; 2: Vale Technological Institute (ITV), Brazil An improved Acid Mine Drainage treatment aimed at decreasing lime cost South China University of Technology, China, People's Republic of Competitive Adsorption of Toxic Metals Using Activated Carbon Derived from Sargassum for Polymetallic Acid Mine Drainage Treatment 1: Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic; 2: ICT, Institute of Earth Sciences, Pole of the University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 Braga, Portugal Groundwater Monitoring Technology in an Open-pit Coal Mine:Case Study from Eastern Inner Mongolia,China China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing Phytoremediation of Mine Waters: comparing the efficiency of Alyssum, Pensylvania Mallow amd Giant Miscantus in removing heavy metals. University of Silesia, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Będzińska 60 Sosnowiec, Poland Removing toxic metals from acid mine drainage by in situ ε-MnO2 forming South China University of Technology, China, People's Republic of Adapting Indigenous methods of water purification to restore access to clean drinking water in mining communities in Ghana Adom Mining Group, Ghana Characterization of red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) as a bioindicator of mercury and metals pollution 1: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - Instituto de Geología Aplicada, Spain; 2: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, José Antonio Novais 12, 28040 Madrid, Spain; 3: Centro Universitario para la Investigación y el Desarrollo del Agua (CUIDA); Edificio de Investigación del Campus de Mieres; University of Oviedo; C/Gonzalo Gutiérrez Quirós, s/n, 33600 Mieres, Spain. Electricity Generation from Low-Enthalpy Mine Water Using Enhanced Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Systems Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA). Universidad de Oviedo, Spain Geochemistry of rare earth elements (REE) in acid mine drainage from the former Canal Caveira mine (southwest Portugal) GEOBIOTEC - Department of Geosciences, University of Aveiro, Portugal Groundwater Contamination associated to Phosphate Mines: Challenges and Sustainable Remediation Strategies 1: minho university, Portugal; 2: Institut Supérieur des Sciences et Techniques des Eaux de Gabès, Université de Gabès, Tunisia; 3: LR: Applied Hydro-Sciences Laboratory Research Campus Universitaire, 6072 Zrig, Gabes, Tunisia.; 4: Department of earth sciences, Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte, University of Carthage, 7120 Bizerte, Tunisia,; 5: Département de Géologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, 2092, Tunisia Innovative UAV-Based Multispectral Mapping of Contaminant Spread from Mine Tailings Spill 1: Universidad Mayor, Chile; 2: Geospectrom, Chile Integrating remote sensing and analytical hierarchy process for soil erosion analysis in arid regions: Gabès, Southern Tunisia 1: Laboratory of Geosystems, Georesources and Geo-environments, Faculty of Sciences of Gabès, University of Gabès, Tunisia; 2: University of Gabes, Tunisia Higher Institute of Water Sciences and Techniques, Laboratory of Applied Hydrosciences, LR23ES09, Campus Universitaire, 6072, Zrig, Gabes, Tunisia Kinetic Column Evaluation of Potential Construction Options During Coal Mine Pit Restoration to Lessen Contaminant Mobility in Backfill Aquifers University of Idaho, United States of America Mine-stream sediments spatial distribution and mobility processes on U-Th enriched areas 1: ICT | University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga, Portugal; 2: GeoBioTec-GeoBioSciences, GeoTechnologies and GeoEngineering Research Centre, Department of Geosciences, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; 3: CERNAS/Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Av. Pedro ÁlvaresCabral, n° 12, 6000‑084 Castelo Branco, Portugal; ICT| Universidade de Évora, Portugal; 4: University of Coimbra, Portugal Utilizing Iron from AMD for Energy Efficient Wastewater Treatment and Nutrient Recovery West Virginia University, United States of America The mechanism of hydrochemical-microbial interaction in the formation and evolution of coal mine water quality 1: School of Resources and geosciences, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; 2: China Coal Aerial Survey and Remote Sensing Group Co., Ltd., Xi'an 710199, China The “three-stages” and “three-zones” models of coal mine water quality formation and evolution 1: China University of Mining and Technology, China; 2: Nanjing Center, China Geological Survey, China Sustainable Immobilization of As and Se using Magnesium Precipitate derived from Seawater Electro-Chlorination Facility Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Study on the influence mechanism of the “upper three zones” of coal seam roof on the overlying aquifer in the northwest coal mining area of China 1: China University of Mining and Technology, Underground Space Technology Development Co., Ltd. of CNACG, China; 2: Hydrogeological Engineering Geological Environmental Geological Exploration Institute of CNACG, China; 3: Hydrogeological Bureau of CNACG, China Spatio-temporal variations in hydrochemistry and water quality in old tungsten mining areas, central Portugal 1: Geobiosciences, Geotechnologies and Geoengineering Research Center (GeoBioTec), University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal, paulacscarvalho@ua.pt; 2: CITEUC, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Department of Earth Sciences, 3030-790 Coimbra, Portugal; 3: ICT | University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal; 4: Geobiosciences, Geotechnologies and Geoengineering Research Center (GeoBioTec), University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; 5: Geobiosciences, Geotechnologies and Geoengineering Research Center (GeoBioTec), University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; 6: Geobiosciences, Geotechnologies and Geoengineering Research Center (GeoBioTec), University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Responsible Mine Planning: Current utilization and challenges of mine water reuse Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Feasibility of a new sulfur-disproportionating bacterium for acid mine drainage treatment Sun Yat-Sen University, China |
Date: Thursday, 10/July/2025 | |
8:30am - 9:00am |
Registration Location: Main Hall |
10:40am - 11:20am |
COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS & EXHIBITION Location: Main Hall |
1:00pm - 2:20pm |
LUNCH Location: Main Hall |
4:00pm - 4:40pm |
COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS & EXHIBITION Location: Main Hall |
Date: Friday, 11/July/2025 | |
8:30am - 9:00am |
Registration Location: Main Hall |
10:40am - 11:20am |
COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS & EXHIBITION Location: Main Hall |
12:40pm - 2:00pm |
LUNCH Location: Main Hall |
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