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Innovative Strategies and Best Practices for Tailings Reprocessing and Repurposing

This one-day course aims to equip participants with practical knowledge, global trends, technical pathways, and case examples for remining, reprocessing and repurposing tailings materials. While the course highlights innovation, collaboration, and sustainability, it also focuses on proven, low-risk solutions already being implemented at mine sites and quarries today. 

The aim is to help mining professionals reimagine tailings not as waste but as a resource with real economic and environmental value; this is not about future potential but current opportunity – delivering operational, environmental, and economic benefits. These include reducing storage and closure costs, easing approval, and creating value-added products with industry partners without disrupting core operations.

Dr Hernán Cifuentes

Presenter
Dr Hernan Cifuentes is a Chartered and Registered Professional Civil Engineer with a Post Graduate Diploma in Geological Engineering and a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering. He is a specialist in applying the principles of geotechnical and hydraulic engineering, rheology and mineral processing to tailings and water management throughout the entire mine lifecycle.

Dr Chenming Zhang

Presenter
Dr Chenming Zhang is a specialist in monitoring and modelling hydrological processes in coastal/terrestrial groundwater systems and tailings storage facilities, in particular the evaporation-induced mass and heat transport in soil/tailings, hydrogeochemical dynamics in aquifer systems and waste rock dumps. He has been developing IoT-based geotechnical and environmental instruments to monitor continuously and in real-time the weather, soil and water conditions.

Charles Vuillier

Presenter
Charles Vuillier is the Technical Director Tailings Management and Repurposing at GHD.

Date

Monday 28 July 2025

Time

9:00am - 5:00pm

Location

Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

Catering

Afternoon tea will be provided

Cost

AusIMM Member – $550pp (inc GST)
Non Member – $660pp (inc GST)

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We'll see you in Brisbane from 29 - 30 July

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