Webinar: Tailings Closure in Practice: Bridging the Gap from Planning to Execution

This webinar details the practical process for delivering tailings closure, moving from theoretical planning to staged, verifiable execution.  

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This webinar details the practical process for delivering tailings closure, moving from theoretical planning to staged, verifiable execution. Participants will be challenged to consider real risks, uncertainties, and decision points underlying closure projects, rather than relying on generic solutions. The session focuses on actionable strategies: setting closure objectives, designing and trialling covers, monitoring for performance, and adapting as conditions evolve. This approach links planning directly to measurable delivery, addressing client exposure to regulatory, financial, and operational risks. Expect direct discussion of pitfalls and the necessity of evidence-based closure execution.

Speaker/s

Justin Walls

Principal Tailings Engineer, SRK Consulting

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Justin Walls is a professionally registered environmental engineer with almost 20 years’ international experience in tailings, water and mine-closure engineering. After more than a decade designing and constructing tailings storage facilities across Southern and Eastern Africa, he shifted his focus to the closure phase of the mining lifecycle.

Now based in SRK’s Perth office, Justin specialises in the closure design of TSFs, integrating water management, geotechnical stability, nature-based solutions and stakeholder expectations to develop pragmatic, cost-effective landforms. His project portfolio spans multiple commodities and continents, supporting operations as they prepare their tailings facilities for long-term stability, relinquishment and post-mining land use.