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Seminar Chair:
Andy Fourie
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.
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Australian Organising and Advisory Committee
Nelson Amoah, BHP Billiton Worsley Alumina Pty Ltd David Elias, GHD Pty Ltd Andy Fourie, The University of Western Australia Imran Gillani, URS Australia Pty Ltd
An associate professor at The University of Western Australia, Richard was responsible for establishing the Geomechanics Group within the Department of Civil Engineering in 1984, and subsequently the Australian Centre for Geomechanics in 1992. Throughout his professional career Richard has worked closely with the offshore oil and gas industry and the mining industry. As senior consultant, his current role is that of developing and promoting research projects and continuing education courses on geomechanics topics which are of relevance to the resource development industries. Chris Lane, Coffey Mining Pty Ltd David Luppnow, SRK Consulting (Australasia) Pty Ltd Clive Saunders, ATC Williams
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.
David has nearly 30 years of experience as a consulting civil engineer, over 20 of which have been primarily focussed on tailings and mine waste engineering. David’s wide range of tailings experience led him to be invited to play a key role in the development of the South African Code of Practice on Mine Residue and, subsequently he was appointed to be the principal author of the Western Australian Government’s Guidelines for the Development of an Operating Manual for Tailings Storage. Whilst residing in David has served as a specialist tailings consultant to numerous international mining companies such as Anglo American, BHPBilliton, Equinox Resources, Mega Uranium and Xstrata. David has provided input to the design, management and analysis of more than 75 mine waste projects in |
Keith Seddon, ATC Williams
Ron Watkins
David WilliamsInternational Organising and Advisory Committee
Tikou Belem, University of Quebec, Canada
Bruce is a civil/geotechnical engineer with a PhD from the University of Sydney. He has over 30 years experience in the planning, design, operation and closure of tailings facilities, heap leach pads and water management infrastructure. Bruce started his career with WLPU Consultants in Australia and then spent 17 years with Knight Piesold in Canada. He has expertise in all geographical and climatic conditions in Australia. Canada, USA, Europe, Africa, Asia and the South Pacific. In 2003, Bruce joined Rio Tinto Technology and Innovation to lead the Water Waste and Tailings team. This diverse group of engineers and scientists provide Rio Tinto corporation and operations with high level advice on economic and environmentally sustainable tailings and waste management. Nilo Consoli, Federal Univeristy of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Andy Fourie, The University of Western Australia Phil Steenkamp, AngloGold Ashanti Ltd, Ghana
Bryan Ulrich With Bachelor of Science degrees in mining engineering and geological engineering, Bryan is geotechnical engineer with more than 25 years of experience in engineering, project management, design and construction, analysis and site investigations of mining-related work. As the vice president of Knight Piesold's Nevada operations, Bryan has participated in all aspects associated with the design of tailings and heap leach facilities and has carried out numerous other geotechnical design efforts, including direct involvement with well over 50 geotechnical site investigations. Bryan has considerable experience with paste tailings, having been involved both in the academic study of the behaviour of paste as well as in many practical design matters. He was on the organising committee for South Africa's first major conference on heap leaching, and initiated the Roundtable Discussion seminar series in Elko, USA.
Dirk van Zyl, University of British Columbia, Canada |
Bruce Brown 
Jorg Troncoso, Barrick Gold