Associated Event

Managing Tailings and Waste Rock Drainage - Quality and Quantity Workshop

28 September 2010, Sheraton Perth Hotel, Western Australia

Workshop facilitators:

Andy Fourie
School of Civil and Resource Engineering, The University of Western Australia (UWA)

In 2008, Andy joined UWA's School of Civil and Resource Engineering. From 2005 to 2008 he was principal - environmental geomechanics at the Australian Centre for Geomechanics. Andy has more than 25 years industry and research experience in the management, transportation and disposal of mining waste. He has co-edited two ACG publications: the "Handbook on Mine Fill" and "Paste and Thickened Tailings - A Guide (Second Edition)". Andy's research interests are the management and disposal of mining, industrial and solid wastes.

Ron Watkins
Associate Professor and Director, EIGG, Department of Applied Geology, WA School of Mines, Curtin University of Technology

Ron gained his PhD from the University of London studying the palaeo-environments of human evolution in northern Kenya. He subsequently obtained an MSc in geochemistry at the University of Leeds. He has held lecturing and senior research posts at the University of St Andrews and the University of Cape Town before joining the School of Applied Geology at Curtin University in 1994. At Curtin, he is responsible for teaching environmental geology and geochemistry and is director of the Environmental Inorganic Geochemistry Group (EIGG). Research within EIGG covers the broad area of environmental pollution and has included studies of mining pollution in Thailand, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, India and The Philippines, as well as Western Australia and Victoria.

He is vice-president of the Asia-Pacific branch of the International Society of Environmental Geochemistry and Health, and Associate Editor of Applied Geochemistry. Ron has delievered many courses on mine pollution to industry professionals since 1994 in Australia and overseas.