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COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTLINETailings dams are critical elements in most mine operations throughout Australia but it is evident that many of these dams have not been implemented and sustainably managed in line with modern day “risk management” approaches. Accordingly, as part of its professional development program, the Australian National Committee on Large Dams (ANCOLD), in conjunction with the Australian Centre for Geomechanics, is planning a series of seminars across Australia on Tailings Dams and Sustainable Management. The short courses are being provided to assist tailings dam owners, and their professional staff and advisers to provide up-to-date information on how to plan, implement, operate and sustainably close their dams in a safe and effective manner consistent with various Government and “duty of care” obligations.

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERS AUSTRALIAAttendees may claim as CPD hours their attendance at this short course, when subject to audit for the National Professional Engineers Register or National Engineering Technologists Register.

Attendees will be issued with a certificate of attendance, detailing the hours of attendance, via email if requested.

WHO SHOULD ATTENDThis short course is designed for those involved in the design, construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of tailings dams. Delegates will include mine management and operation personnel as well as consultants and government personnel working with the mining industry.

COURSE FEES

ANCOLD/ACG Member $675.00Non Member $775.00Young Professional $575.00

SPECIAL OFFER: When registering the ANCOLD Guidelines: Tailings Dams – Planning, Design, Construction, Operation and Closure will be available for purchase at a reduced fee of $175 (saving of $20).

All ordered copies will be available for collection at the short course.

MelbourneMonday

19 May 2014Rydges Exhibition Street

BrisbaneTuesday

20 May 2014Rydges South Bank

NewcastleWednesday21 May 2014

Crowne Plaza Newcastle

PerthFriday

23 May 2014Rydges Perth

TAILINGS DAMS & SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT

SHORT COURSE

For more information or to register visitwww.ancold.org.au

PROGRAMTime Topic0730 - 0800 Registration Arrival Tea and Coffee__________________________________________________________________________

0800 - 0810 Welcome & Introduction__________________________________________________________________________

0810 - 0910 Background (Types, Past Lessons, Regulations, Guidelines, Sustainability)__________________________________________________________________________

0910 - 0940 Management Considerations (Waste Strategies, Risk Management, Consequence Category, Planning)__________________________________________________________________________

0940 - 1000 Morning Refreshments__________________________________________________________________________

1000 - 1100 Tailings Storage Methods & Deposition Principles (Components, Environment Protection, Delivery, Containment Methods, Discharge Strategies, Construction Methods)__________________________________________________________________________

1100 - 1200 Characterisation & Behaviour of Tailings (Characteristics, Mineralogy, Chemistry, Rheology, Tailings Transport, Tailings Beaches) __________________________________________________________________________

1200 - 1240 Lunch__________________________________________________________________________

1240 - 1320 Design-Tailings Storage & Water Management (Criteria, Water Balance, Stream & Rainfall Management, Decant, Evaporation, Water Recovery, Seepage, Drainage)__________________________________________________________________________

1320 - 1430 Embankment Design (Static Stability, Seismic Stability, Analysis Methods, Loading Conditions, Safety Factors, Reliability, Sensitivity Analyses, Settlement, Durability, Reporting & Review)__________________________________________________________________________

1430 - 1450 Afternoon Refreshments__________________________________________________________________________

1450 - 1520 Construction (Supervision, Documentation, Storage Preparation, Foundation Preparation, Instrumentation, Material Sources, Use of Tailings in Construction, Staged Construction, Commissioning, Reporting)__________________________________________________________________________

1520 - 1600 Operational Issues (Management, Training, OM&S Manual, Surveillance, Emergency Planning, Maintenance, Security)__________________________________________________________________________

1600 - 1630 Sustainable Closure (Options, Closure Plan, Issues, Progressive Closure, Mine Completion, Monitoring & Review)__________________________________________________________________________

1630 - 1715 Case Studies__________________________________________________________________________

1715 Wrap Up & Thank You

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PROGRAMTime Topic0730 - 0800 Registration Arrival Tea and Coffee__________________________________________________________________________

0800 - 0810 Welcome & Introduction__________________________________________________________________________

0810 - 0910 Background (Types, Past Lessons, Regulations, Guidelines, Sustainability)__________________________________________________________________________

0910 - 0940 Management Considerations (Waste Strategies, Risk Management, Consequence Category, Planning)__________________________________________________________________________

0940 - 1000 Morning Refreshments__________________________________________________________________________

1000 - 1100 Tailings Storage Methods & Deposition Principles (Components, Environment Protection, Delivery, Containment Methods, Discharge Strategies, Construction Methods)__________________________________________________________________________

1100 - 1200 Characterisation & Behaviour of Tailings (Characteristics, Mineralogy, Chemistry, Rheology, Tailings Transport, Tailings Beaches) __________________________________________________________________________

1200 - 1240 Lunch__________________________________________________________________________

1240 - 1320 Design-Tailings Storage & Water Management (Criteria, Water Balance, Stream & Rainfall Management, Decant, Evaporation, Water Recovery, Seepage, Drainage)__________________________________________________________________________

1320 - 1430 Embankment Design (Static Stability, Seismic Stability, Analysis Methods, Loading Conditions, Safety Factors, Reliability, Sensitivity Analyses, Settlement, Durability, Reporting & Review)__________________________________________________________________________

1430 - 1450 Afternoon Refreshments__________________________________________________________________________

1450 - 1520 Construction (Supervision, Documentation, Storage Preparation, Foundation Preparation, Instrumentation, Material Sources, Use of Tailings in Construction, Staged Construction, Commissioning, Reporting)__________________________________________________________________________

1520 - 1600 Operational Issues (Management, Training, OM&S Manual, Surveillance, Emergency Planning, Maintenance, Security)__________________________________________________________________________

1600 - 1630 Sustainable Closure (Options, Closure Plan, Issues, Progressive Closure, Mine Completion, Monitoring & Review)__________________________________________________________________________

1630 - 1715 Case Studies__________________________________________________________________________

1715 Wrap Up & Thank You

David Brett (Brisbane & Newcastle)David Brett is a Senior Manager, Mine Waste and Water Management at GHD Pty Ltd Hobart. David is a civil/geotechnical engineer with over 30 years experience in investigation, design and construction of a wide range of engineering projects. His work in the mining industry has been particularly focussed on water and tailings dams, waste rock dumps and mine infrastructure.

As convenor of the committee responsible for producing the 2012 ANCOLD Guidelines on Tailings Dams, David is very much involved in assisting the mining industry in tailings management through the challenges of the future.

Dr Bruce Brown (Melbourne & Perth)Brown is a civil engineer with a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering. He has 35 years experience in the design, construction, operation, management and closure of tailings storage facilities in all parts of the world. He was a principal of Knight Piesold Consulting for 25 years in Australia and Canada. In this role, his experience included facilities in all geographic regions ranging from the deserts of Australia and the Artacarma Plateau to the mountains of the Andies, South Pacific and North America. He has designed facilities in tropical monsoonal and arid climates with temperatures ranging from -50°C to +45°C. Dr Brown joined Rio Tinto as Chief Adviser, Tailings and Dams in 2003. In this role, he was responsible for the corporate assurance and risk management of

the tailings storage facilities in the group. He is now a director of Bruce Brown Consulting Pty Ltd, and provides high level consulting services to the mining and consulting industries.

Professor Andy Fourie (Perth)Andy has a Bachelor degree in civil engineering and a Masters degree in engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. After working for specialist geotechnical consulting firm, Steffen, Robertson and Kirsten (now SRK Consulting), on tailings storage facility construction projects, he moved to the UK, where he obtained a PhD in geotechnical engineering from Imperial College, London. He was a lecturer in Civil Engineering at University of Queensland in Australia, before taking a position at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he became Professor of Civil Engineering. In 2005 he moved to Australia, taking up the position of Principal, Environmental Geomechanics at the Australian Centre for

Geomechanics. In July 2008 he joined the School of Civil and Resource Engineering at the University of Western Australia as a Winthrop Professor in Engineering.

Norm Himsley (Brisbane & Newcastle)Norm has over 40 years experience in the planning, investigation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of major engineering structures and infrastructure including buildings, dams (water and tailings), roads, bridges, power stations and water and sewage distribution and treatment.

He is currently a dams consultant working in the water and mining industries and is a member of the NSW Dams Safety Committee (DSC) charged with setting and auditing the safety standards of the 360 prescribed dams in NSW to protect the community from dam failures. In his former position as Executive Engineer of the DSC for over 20 years,

he set up in the TAFE System, and continues to run regular training programmes for dam operators and owners throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Norm is currently Chair of the ANCOLD Professional Development Working Group and has been actively involved for over fifteen years with Engineers Australia, where he worked in the education and assessment area. He has also been Chair of Sydney’s Division of Education and Assessment Committee since 2000.

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COURSE PRESENTERSThis one day short course is being presented by leading dam safety and risk management professionals including:

Dr Allen Li (Brisbane)Dr Li is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer at URS Australia, Brisbane, Queensland. He has over 22 years experience in engineering consulting and research. His consulting experience includes geotechnical, geo-environmental, hydrological, geological, hydrogeological, process and closure aspects of tailings and mine waste management. He has been involved in design of tailings storage facilities for numerous international projects including mining projects in Australia, North America, South America, The Caribbean, Central American and European countries with different climatic and seismic conditions. He has also worked with multidisciplinary teams to solve engineering and environmental issues in tailings and mine water

management. Dr Li has conducted simulations of tailings dam construction and potential impacts of earthquakes and tailings liquefaction using FLAC.

Professor Ken Mercer (Perth)Professor Mercer is Professor - Environmental and Mining Geomechanics of the Australian Centre for Geomechanics, The University of Western Australia.

Ken has more than 20 years experience in the civil engineering and mining industries as a geotechnical engineer, researcher and consultant. Ken’s areas of expertise include soil mechanics and rock engineering in the fields of paste and thickened tailings, waste dumps and open pit mining.

Ken holds a PhD in mining engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, in the field of the deformation behaviour of unsupported rock slopes, and an MBA from Curtin University, Western Australia.

Ken has worked as a consultant for most of his career, providing for clients mainly in Africa and Australia, but also as far afield as Europe and Asia. He has also gained four years of operational experience for Anglo American and BHP Billiton.

Josh Rankin (Melbourne)Josh Rankin has over 10 years experience in the water industry, specifically in: Water Infrastructure Design, Project and Construction Management, Asset Management, Investment and Strategic Planning. Over the last 3 years, he has been predominantly focussed on the design, construction and strategic planning of Tailings Dams

Keith Seddon (Melbourne)Keith has 40 years experience in mine tailings disposal including planning, studies, geotechnical investigations, tailings characterisation, design and permitting, construction support, commissioning, surveillance and performance reviews, closure and rehabilitation, as well as third party reviews and audits. His experience includes conventional disposal, and thickened and paste tailings, over a wide range of ore / tailings types and geographic and climatic locations.

Professor David Williams (Brisbane & Newcastle)Professor David Williams has a First Class Honours degree in Civil Engineering from Monash University and a PhD in Soil Mechanics from Cambridge University, he is currently the Golder Professor of Geomechanics and Director of the new Geotechnical Engineering Centre at The University of Queensland. The Centre is supported by Golder Associates, Rio Tinto, AngloGold Ashanti and BHP Billiton, with matching funding from UQ, to a total of $1.2 million/annually. It supports highly successful Geotechnical Engineering Programs, and a wide range of research in Geotechnical Engineering.

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