Impact of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management Webinar-Only Event

Due to current Covid-19 restrictions, the South West WA Branch and AusIMM have decided to adapt the event to a virtual event with the hope to return to in-person soon.

Please join the South West WA Branch for the first Technical Talk of the year hosted by Chris Lane.

About this event

The implementation of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management is changing the approach to tailings storge design, construction, and operation.

Financiers and insurers are looking very closely at existing and new projects to see the asses the risks of the projects they are involved with.

This presentation will, in broad terms, go through the 15 Principles of the GISTM and the associated documents.

It will look at the relevant standards and the impact of the principles on these standards, impacts on existing mining operations and impacts on future/proposed mining operations.

To view the presentation overview please click here.

Speaker/s

Chris Lane

Director and Principal Consultant (Engineering and Environmental Geologist)
Land & Marine Geological Services

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Chris has broad experience in civil construction fields, including site investigation of land based and marine based developments with particular expertise in the development and operation of resource projects spanning more than 40-years.

Chris has been involved with various aspects from strategy studies, due diligence, and financial analysis of TSF options covering design, construction and operation from project start up to auditing through to project closure for a range of commodities including alumina residue, bauxite residue, base metals (copper, lead and zinc), coal, gold, graphite, iron ore, lithium, manganese, nickel (sulphide and laterite), phosphate residues, rare earth residues, uranium and vanadium.

At this stage of his career, he is primarily involved in high-level TSF reviews.