2024 Symposium & Congress Presentations

Monday, 22 ApriL

Mine Hydrology | Salons A – C

Tracer dilution profiles for mine dewatering: approach and case study – Presentation
Michael Verreault
Hydro-Ressources Inc, United States of America

Advancing sustainable mine water management through understanding stratification in flooded underground mines – Presentation
Elke Mugova – TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany,
Christian Wolkersdorfer – Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa

Various rainfall forecasting methods for estimation of pit lake flooding duration in Indonesia – Presentation
Ginting Jalu Kusuma, Abie Badhurahman, Sendy Dwiki, Salmawati Salmawati, Rudy Sayoga Gautama, IK Dwika
Paramananda Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, Indonesia

Stream Renewal and Treatment | Salon D

A watershed-based NPDES approach to AMD treatment in Muddy Creek, Cheat River, West Virginia, USA – Presentation
Gregory Willard Phillips
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, United States of America

The engineering of truly passive mine water treatment systems using recycled concrete aggregate – Presentation
Adrian Brown
Adrian Brown Consultants, Inc., United States of America

Beyond reclamation and remediation, next steps in a recovered watershed – Presentation
Amy Mackey, Nora Sullivan, Natalie A Kruse Daniels, Jennifer Bowman
Ohio University, United States of America

Stream Contamination and Restoration | Salon E

Sandy Creek restoration – the tale of two acid mine drainage treatment systems – Presentation
Benjamin Ross Fancher
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, United States of America

Biomagnification of potentially toxic elements from Tahmoor Colliery, Bargo NSW, from water and sediment into the surrounding biota and fur of the iconic Australian platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) – Presentation
Katherine G Warwick, Michelle Ryan, Ian A Wright
Western Sydney University, Australia

Mine Hydrology | Salons A – C

Hydrogeochemical investigations in the vicinity of the former Havelock asbestos mine near Bulembu, eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) – Presentation
Christian Wolkersdorfer, Kagiso Samuel More
Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), South Africa
Elke Mugova – TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Nokuthula Nchabeleng – University of Pretoria, Südafrika
Anna Johanna Sotiralis – Artist, Südafrika

Integrated groundwater management model for underground coal gasification plants – Presentation
Lehlohonolo Mokhahlane – Wits University, South Africa

Upper He Creek water balance hydraulic and hydrogeologic solutions in east central Tennessee – Presentation
Terry W. Schmidt- Earthres Group, Inc., United States of America

A workflow to evaluate hydraulic barriers during mine water rebound: A holistic approach – Presentation
Till Genth, Lisa Rose, Henning Jasnowski-Peters, Sebastian Westermann, Christian Melchers
Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola, Bochum, Germany

Stream Renewal and Treatment | Salon D

The Barnes & Tucker #20 Mine Drainage Treatment Facility: optimization case study in consideration of variable flow and water chemistry – Presentation
Bradley Shultz, Richard Beam
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, United States of America
Dean Baker, Roger Rummel, Stephen Fisanick III
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation

Pell road doser upgrade project – Presentation
Michael Stephen Kearns – Tetra Tech, Inc., United States of America

Harvesting the Energy of Mine Water – Presentation
Terry Edward Ackman – MT Water Management, Inc., United States of America

Stream restoration solutions for challenging environments – Presentation
Mary Beth Berkes – GAI Consultants, Inc., United States of America

Stream Contamination and Restoration | Salon E

The Transport of toxic elements from the Marie-Louise landfill site and nearby gold mine dumps to waterbodies – Presentation
Alseno Mosai – Department of Chemistry, University of Pretoria
Heidi Richards, Hlanganani Tutu – School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand

Floodplain reconnection stream restoration in longwall mined watershed increases water and nutrient retention – Presentation
Natalie A Kruse Daniels, Nora Sullivan, Jen Bowman, Tatiana Burkett, Annika Gurrola, Red Pazol, Kelly Love, Nichole Mazzone, Morgan Vis, Kelly Johnson
Ohio University, United States of America

Influences on Mine Water Quality that are not related to Acid Mine Drainage – Presentation
Robel Gebrekristos, Graham Trusler
Digby Wells Environmental, South Africa

Tracking AMD trace metals in an anthracite passive treatment system in the Shamokin Creek watershed
Molly M. McGuire, Hannah M. Schultheis
Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, United States of America
Ellen K. Herman
Department of Geology, Bucknell University, United States of America

Tuesday, 23 April

Active Treatment | Salons A – C

Case Study – The Gladden acid mine drainage (AMD) treatment facility and Fishing Run stream sealing project – Presentation
Katie Wood – Tetra Tech, United States of America

Using iron oxidation and decarbonation to enhance inorganic carbon removal in coal mine drainage – Presentation
Brent Means, Richard L. Beam
OSMRE, United States of America

Restoring the north branch Blacklick Creek with a centralized mine drainage treatment facility – Presentation
Heather Trexler – Tetra Tech, United States of America

Mine Water Treatment and Management | Salon D

Teaching hydrogeology in a mined site: a case study on West Run, Morgantown, WV – Presentation
Lisa Lohr – West Virginia University, United States of America

The Banning/West Newton Coal Logistics coal refuse pile reclamation project, Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania – Presentation
Eric Cavazza – Tetra Tech, Inc., United States of America

Ongoing case study, Berry Branch selenium pilot treatment system using sulfur modified iron, former Hobet Surface Mine, Lincoln County, WV – Presentation
R. B. (Barry) Doss – ERP Environmental Fund Receivership Estate

Circular Economy | Salon E

Recovery of copper as “clean” nanoparticles of CuS from acid rock drainage and mine process water – Presentation
Gonzalo Recio, Aileen Segura, Ivan Nancucheo
Universidad San Sebastián, Chile
Alex Schwarz – Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Hydrochar for metal removal from acid mine drainage – Presentation
Natalie A Kruse Daniels, Benjamin Quardey, Sana Jamshidifard, Aliching Marma, Blake Madden
Ohio University, United States of America

Double burden of mine water resources and the prospect of corporate sustainability as adaptation strategy: perspectives from Ghana, West Africa – Presentation
Salamatu Joana Tannor – University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Germany

Tailings and Tailings Management | Salons F – H

Hydrogeological inputs to stability analysis of tailings storage facilities – Presentation
Altus Huisamen, John Edward Glendinning
Jones & Wagener, South Africa

Saturated-unsaturated seepage characteristics and stability analysis of tailings dam under different rainfall pattern
Jun Cai, Haibo Huang, Riqiang Wen, Shangsong Han, Lijuan Lu, Wenkai Lei Hezhou University, China, People’s Republic of

Hyperspectral UAS-sensing for tailing ponds monitoring: Towards responsible resource repurposing – Presentation
Hernan Flores, Bastian Reker, Marcin Pawlik, Benjamin Haske, Tobias Rudolph
Research Center of Post-Mining (FZN), Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola (THGA);
Marcin Pawlik, Benjamin Haske
Faculty of Geoscience, Geoengineering and Mining, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF)

Active Treatment | Salons A – C

Pilot plant testing to determine the process effects of treating net alkaline mine water using the high density sludge process – Presentation
Michael Alan Cox, Catherine Dale, Christopher Satterley
The Coal Authority, United Kingdom
Richard Coulton, Richard D Coulton, Richard Morgan
Materials Recovery Systems Limited, United Kingdom

Using state point analysis and settling flux theory to design and operate mine water treatment clarifiers – Presentation
Harley Schreiber, Jaron Stanley, Mike Chambers
WesTech Engineering, United States of America

Mine Water Pinch – increasing reuse/recycle efficiency while optimising water treatment on a mine sites – Presentation
Priyal Dama-Fakir, Trevor Coleman
WSP, South Africa
Grace Yungwirth – WSP, UK
Peter Wille – iX engineers, South Africa

Potential of continuous electrocoagulation for the treatment of coal mine water containing colloidal clays – Presentation
Faiz Hasan – Environmental Engineering Master Program, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology
Muhammad Sonny Abfertiawan, Mindriany Syafila
Water and Wastewater Research Group, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology;
Yoseph Palinggi, Kris Pranoto
Environmental Department, PT. Kaltim Prima Coal, Indonesia

Mine Water Treatment and Management (cont’d) | Salon D

Datashed: an online tool for managing AMD treatment systems and restoration of impacted watersheds – Presentation
Cliff Denholm, Natalie Lamagna
Stream Restoration Incorporated, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Shaun Busler – BioMost, Inc, Mars, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Passive Treatment using Drainable Limestone Beds: Lessons from 14 Years of Design and Maintenance – Presentation
Neil Wolfe, Robert Hedin, Benjamin Hedin, Olivia Weaver
Hedin Environmental

Expanding possibilities for the co-treatment of mine drainage with municipal wastewater – Presentation
William Strosnider – University of South Carolina, United States of America
Benjamin Roman – U.S. Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement;
Charles Spellman Jr. – Narragansett Bay Commission
Joseph Goodwill – University of Rhode Island
Travis Tasker – Saint Francis University

Acid mine drainage active treatment solutions options and evaluation – Presentation
Robert Loken – Envirogen Technologies, Inc, United States of America

Circular Economy | Salon E

Sorption of metals from low-iron acid mine drainage using agricultural waste materials – Presentation
Edward Abbiw, Natalie A Kruse Daniels Ohio University, United States of America

Implementing water conservation and water demand management in South Africa’s mining industry – Presentation
Givarn Singh – WSP UK
Nivi Juggath, William Pulles
WSP South Africa
Stephinah Mudau – Minerals Council South Africa

Tailings and Tailings Management | Salons F – H

Forecasting opportunities for co-management of Cu-Ni tailings with byproducts of iron ore mining – Presentation
Joel Bandstra, Tamara Diedrich
MineraLogic, United States of America

Reclamation of two kyanite mine tailings ponds with different surface topographies – Presentation
Gwendelyn Geidel – University of SC, United States of America

Assessment of AMD Potential and Prediction of a long-term Sulfate Plume of a Tailing Storage Facility Decades after its Decommissioning – Presentation
Thomas R. Rüde, Julia Becker, Thomas Demmel
RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Hydrogeology, Germany
Dirk Sahle, Ernst-Werner Hoffmann
AAV – Association for Land Recycling and Remediation of Contaminated Sites, Germany;
Franz-Josef Chmielarczyk – Bezirksregierung Arnsberg Dezernat 63 – Abschlussbetriebsplanverfahren, Germany
Michael Heitfeld, Peter Rosner
IHS – Ingenieurbüro Heitfeld-Schetelig GmbH, Germany

Active Treatment | Salons A – C

Active treatment of high strength acid mine drainage at a clay mine and coal refuse sites – Presentation
Jonathan Dietz – Iron Oxide Technologies, United States of America

Underestimation of alkaline dosage and precipitate amount during water treatment: Role of inorganic carbon and use of PHREEQ-N-AMDTreat – Presentation
Duk-Min Kim, Hye-Lim Kwon
Sangji University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
Mi-Sun Park – Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corporation (KOMIR), Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Treatment of coal mine leachate for neutralization and metal removal – Presentation
Mokgadi Rapeta, Johannes Maree, Thabo Nkambule
University of South Africa, South Africa

Development of a single stage High Density Sludge (HDS) process for the reopening of South Crofty Tin Mine, Cornwall, UK – Presentation
Richard Morgan, Richard Coulton
Materials Recovery Systems, United Kingdom
Steve Kingstone, Naomi Watson
Cornish Metals, United Kingdom

Passive Treatment of Mine Water | Salon D

Successful acid mine drainage abatement – a case study – Presentation
Joseph Edward Mills – Skelly and Loy, a Terracon Company, United States of America

Carbonation of mine water to increase calcite dissolution – Presentation
Robert S Hedin, Benjamin C Hedin
Hedin Environmental, United States of America

Passive treatment of Mn: results from an experimental pilot system – Presentation
Benjamin Hedin, Neil Wolfe, Robert Hedin
Hedin Environmental, United States of America

Comparison of Midwestern U.S. conventional and hybrid vertical flow ponds to previous performance data – Presentation
Paul T Behum Jr., Andrew Ripley, Daniel Wedemeyer
US Dept. Interior, United States of America

Tailings and Tailings Management | Salons F – H

Tailings dam breach assessment – a review – Presentation
Hossein Kheirkhah Gildeh – Barr Engineering Co.
Uthra Sreekumar, Abdolmajid Mohammadian, Ioan Nistor, Colin Rennie
University of Ottawa

Geochemical controls on mobilization of metals from tailings and implications for cover amendments – Presentation
Linda Figueroa – Colorado School of Mines
Sarah Doyle – Itasca Denver Inc.

The potential of reprocessing Au and by-products from a tailing dam in the Iron Quadrangle – The case of the Cuiaba Dam, Sabará, Minas Gerais – Presentation
Mariana Lemos, Teresa Valente, Amélia Marinho-Reis, Amália Sequeira Braga
University of Minho, Institute of Earth Sciences, Portugal
Rita Fonseca – University of Évora, Institute of Earth Sciences
Mariana Lemos, José da Mata Filho, Marcus Magalhães
Anglogold Ashanti, Mining & Technical, COO International

Short water recirculation during the flotation of a UG2 Cu-Ni-PGM ore: Implications on tailings dewatering and quality of the recovered water – Presentation
Malibongwe Shadrach Manono – University of Cape Town, South Africa

Active Treatment | Salons A – C

Removal of selenium by biological reduction and surface complexation: removal efficiencies and speciation results – Presentation
Myriam De Ladurantaye-Noel, Marc Laliberté
Veolia Water Technologies Canada, Canada

Electrolytic manganese removal from acid rock drainage – Presentation
Sarah Doyle – Itasca Denver Inc.
Linda Figueroa – Colorado School of Mines

Economical and Environmentally Friendly Adsorption of Arsenic from Mine Drainage: Comparison between CMDS-Bead and GFH – Presentation
Ki-Rim Lee, Duk-Min Kim, Hye-Lim Kwon, Nam-Kyu Kim, Young-Min Kim, Dae-Gyu Im, Oh-Hun Kwon
Sangji University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Innovative data collection and management strategies for improved water treatment efficiency – Presentation
Tom Meuzelaar, Shannon D. Zahuranec, James P. Jonas
Life Cycle Geo, United States of America
Alice Alex – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Passive Treatment of Mine Water | Salon D

Feasibility of the scale-up of a semi-passive biological Sulfate Reduction Process Treating High Sulfate Mine-Influenced Water – Presentation
Kerri du Preez, Mothusi Marumo
Mintek, South Africa

A toolbox for characterizing organic media in passive biotreatment cells – Presentation
Logan Schultz. Ph.D., Brian Park, Lauren Stanford, Kevin Pfeifer
Alloy, Inc.
Irene Montero. Ph.D., Terry Moore. Ph.D.
Remediation Management Services Company
Alex Wing – Astalagus Environmental
Sandy Riese. Ph.D. – EnSci, Inc.

Lambert Run: a passive treatment approach to watershed remediation – Presentation
Jason Fillhart – WV Water Research Institute, United States of America
John Brady Gutta – WVU Institute for Sustainability and Energy Research, United States of America

Development of an un-powered remote monitoring system of mine waste water – Presentation
Tetsuo Yasutaka, Hiromitsu Furukawa, Kenro Kuroki, Tsukasa Fujita
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Water Management / Mine Hydrology | Salon E

Applicability of machine learning in agile decision making in open pit dewatering: A case study at Antamina mine (Peru) – Presentation
Eduardo Ruiz, Aitor Iraola, Lizardo Huamani, Maria Pool, Bertha Llanos, Milton Cairo, Albert Nardi, Ester Vilanova
Amphos 21 Consulting Peru, Peru
Alejandro Sanchez, Marco Irribarren, Luis Lozada
Antamina Mine

Cooperative mine land reclamation operations & comprehensive managed watershed planning – Presentation
Michael Haney – Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, United States of America
Branden Diehl – Earth Wise Consulting, LLC
Todd Coleman – Minetech Engineers, Inc.

Flow and load accretion study improved understanding of hyporheic exchange plus contaminant plume sources and transport at an operating mine – Presentation
Isaac Guld, Kate Robey, Sharon Blackmore, Andrea Chong
BGC Engineering Inc., Canada

Metal loads accounting at a legacy mine site: The Tar Creek Superfund Site, Oklahoma, USA – Presentation
Justine Inez McCann, Robert W. Nairn
Center for Restoration of Ecosystems and Watersheds, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma, United States of America

Thursday, 25 April

Geothermal Energy from Mine Water | Salons A – C

GIS-based development of energy networks using mine water geothermal energy for cross-sectoral heating and cooling supply of municipal quarters – Presentation
Thomas Wenzel, Patrick Heinrich, Robert Manig
DBI Gas- und Umwelttechnik GmbH, Germany
Thomas Grab, Lukas Oppelt, Tom Ebel, Timm Wunderlich
TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

WINZER: Multi-scale modelling concept for numerical modelling of seasonal thermal energy storage in groundwater-filled underground coal mines – Presentation
Torsten Seidel, Timo König
delta h, Witten, Germany
Florian Hahn, Stefan Klein, Mathias Nehler
Fraunhofer IEG, Bochum, NRW, Germany

Geothermal multiple use of mine water from the Wolf – San Fernando – Friedrich Wilhelm composite mine, Rhenish Massiv, Germany – Presentation
Peter Quensel, Georg Wieber
Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

Passive Treatment of Mine Water | Salon D

Navigating difficult site constraints to facilitate ecological recovery of an impaired watershed – Presentation
Timothy A. Denicola – Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc., United States of America

Sulfate removal from mine drainage at low temperature: effects of three reactive porous media on microbial sulfate reduction – Presentation
Laura Nina Bettoni, Roger Herbert
Uppsala University, Sweden

Reducing water quality impacts from abandoned mines in Saxony – Challenges and benefits for passive treatment options – Presentation
Eberhard Janneck, Mirko Martin
G.E.O.S. Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Germany
Christine Stevens – Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie, Germany
Axel Hiller – Wismut GmbH, Germany

Prediction and Control of Mine Water Issues | Salon E

Evaluation of geochemical reaction rates from different wet-dry cycle intervals in laboratory kinetic test – Presentation
Ginting Jalu Kusuma, Abie Badhurahman, Sendy Dwiki, Salmawati Salmawati, Rudy Sayoga Gautama, Gelar Wisnugraha
Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, Indonesia

Coal mine drainage contaminant trend prediction in an Appalachian basin, USA – Presentation
Camille Rose Schaffer, Rosemary C. Capo, Brian W. Stewart, Benjamin C. Hedin
University of Pittsburgh, United States of America
Charles A. Cravotta III – United States Geological Survey
Benjamin C. Hedin – Hedin Environmental
Dorothy J. Vesper – West Virginia University, USA

Geochemical modeling to understand and mitigate aquatic contamination by abandoned mine drainage – Presentation
Charles A. Cravotta III – U.S. Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, New Cumberland, PA, USA

Rare Earth Resources | Salons F – H

Application of supported liquid membranes for extraction of rare earth elements from acidic coal mine drainage – Presentation
Helen Hsu-Kim, Andrew Middleton
Duke University, United States of America
Benjamin C. Hedin – Hedin Environmental, United States of America

Generating Rare Earth Element and Critical Mineral hydraulic pre-concentrate from acid mine drainage at remote sites: a case study at Fola Job 5, Clay County, WV – Presentation
Iuri Santos – Slippery Rock University, United States of America
Nathan Depriest, David Hoffman, Caitlin Glascock, Rachel Spirnak, Jason Fillhart, Paul Ziemkiewicz
West Virginia Water Research Institute
Michael King, John Quaranta
West Virginia University

Identification of rare earth element occurrences in mine waste throughout Montana – Presentation
Jackson Tyler Quarles, Matthew Joseph Vitale, Michael William Calhoun
Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, United States of America

Geothermal Energy from Mine Water | Salons A – C

Mine thermal energy storage (MTES) systems in abandoned collieries within the Ruhr area – Presentation
Florian Hahn, Stefan Klein, Kevin Mannke, René Verhoeven, Jonas Güldenhaupt
Fraunhofer IEG
Torsten Seidel, Timo König
delta h

GIS based analysis of heat demand and subsurface potential of abandoned mining infrastructure in the Ruhr region, Germany – Presentation
Kevin Mannke, Florian Hahn, René Verhoeven, Stefan Klein
Fraunhofer IEG, Germany

Passive Treatment of Mine Water | Salon D

Treating Fe-rich acid mine drainage with Tasmanian plants as a metal removal mechanism – Presentation
Tamara Lee Herzog, Anna Lintern, Brandon Winfrey
Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia
Adam Kessler – School of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment, Monash University, Australia

Effect of source water chemical composition on the mineralogical and chemical properties of resulting iron oxide precipitates in coal and hard-rock mining influenced waters – Presentation
Dayton M Dorman, Robert W Nairn
University of Oklahoma, United States of America

Prediction & Control of Mine Water Issues | Salon E

Characterization and modeling of Acid Mine Drainage in a highly acidic Stream (Trimpancho mining complex, SW of Spain) – Presentation
Ana Raquel Barroso, Teresa Maria Valente, Isabel Margarida Antunes, Amélia Paula Reis
ICT – Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal
Amélia Paula Reis – GEOBIOTEC, Geosciences Department, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Maria Isabel Neves – CQUM, Centre of Chemistry, University of Minho, Portugal
Maria Isabel Neves – CEB – Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal

Mining-Influenced Water Treatment Technology Demonstration Program lessons learned from two EPA Superfund sites – Presentation
Lucila Dunnington, Michele Mahoney, Kimberly Prestbo, Barbara Butler
Environmental Protection Agency, United States of America

Rare Earth Resources | Salons F – H

Lab-based assessment of critical metal adsorption by biotic and abiotic hydrous manganese oxides – Presentation
Tashane Jessica Boothe, Rosemary Clare Capo, Brian W. Stewart
University of Pittsburgh
Ben Hedin – Hedin Environmental
Travis Olds, Carla Rosenfeld
Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Laboratory and field observations inform geochemical models of treatment strategies to recover rare-earth elements from acid mine drainage – Presentation
Charles A Cravotta III – U.S. Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, New Cumberland, PA, USA
Travis L. Tasker – Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA, USA
Benjamin C. Hedin – Hedin Environmental, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Passive Treatment of Mine Water | Salon D

Self-organizing wetland bioreactors (SOWBs) application to mining reclamation: direct and indirect bioremediation as a design tool for mine influenced water (MIW) benefaction – Presentation
Colin A Lennox – EcoIslands LLC, United States of America

Batch operating limestone treatment systems (BOLTS): a novel approach to treating mine drainage at lower cost – Presentation
Travis Lindsay Tasker, Ben Roman, James Eckenrode, Nicole Himes, Henry Warner
Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA, USA
Buck Neely, Tim Danehy
BioMost, Inc. Mars, PA, USA
Cliff Denholm – Stream Restoration Inc, Slippery Rock, PA, USA
William Strosnider – University of South Carolina, Baruch Marine Field Laboratory, Georgetown, SC, USA
Julie LaBar – Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA

Crossville coal passive treatment system – the redesign of a non-functioning iron and manganese treatment system – Presentation
Wesley Con Smith, Adam Ramsey, Rick Mann
OSMRE, United States of America

Prediction and Control of Mine Water Issues | Salon E

Development of a prediction method for contaminated neutral drainage: Case of Lac Tio, QC – Presentation
Vincent Marmier, Benoît Plante, Isabelle Demers, Mostafa Benzaazoua
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Mostafa Benzaazoua – Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Mathieu Fillion – Rio Tinto Fer et Titane

Nitrate removal from waste rock drainage with denitrifying bioreactors at the Kiruna iron ore mine – Presentation
Roger B. Herbert – Uppsala University, Sweden
Tomas Salmí2, Mattias Ylipää
Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB), Sweden

Water Management / Mine Hydrology | Salons F – H

Watergenics AISRAS: addressing the problem of sudden changes in ion concentrations with real-time spectroscopy – Presentation
Bruno Grafe, Liviu Mantescu, Sebastian Stolzenberg
Watergenics GmbH, Germany
Henning Jasnowski-Peters – Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola, Germany

Determination of groundwater level using advanced machine learning methods – Presentation
Amirhossein Najafabadipour, Shahid Bahonar
University of Kerman, Iran

Friday, 26 April

Mine Water Geochemistry | Salons A – C

The release of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and CO₂ from coal mine drainages – Presentation
Dorothy J Vesper, Mathew L Bell, Lauren J Rockwell
West Virginia University, USA
Charles A Cravotta III – USGS
Kyle Fredrick – Penn West University, USA
Ellen K Herman – Bucknell University, USA
Lili Lei – Sweet Brier College, USA
Jill L Riddell – Chatham University, USA
Camille R Schaffer – University of Pittsburgh, USA

Improving Fe oxidizing/removal process by limestone addition to rice husk bed on large scale passive treatment test for AMD in Japan – Presentation
Masataka Kondo, Yusei Masaki, Kana Hagihara, Koki Iguchi, Takaya Hamai, Yuki Semoto, Taro Kamiya, Masao Okumura, Naoki Sato
Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security, Japan

Diurnal cycles of dissolved inorganic carbon and dissolved metals at Lambert Run, Harrison County, WV – Presentation
Jill L Riddell – Chatham University, United States of America
Dorothy J Vesper – West Virginia University, United States of America

Mine Closure & Legacy Issues | Salon D

Challenges of defining what ‘success’ looks like for closure of pit lakes as aquatic ecosystems – Presentation
Mark Lund, Rachele Bernasconi
Mine, Water and Environment Research Centre, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Water Management and Treatment in the Closure Phase: Case Studies and the Associated Challenges – Presentation
Andre Abel van Coller, Vicki Ann Shaw, Graham Errol Trusler
Digby Wells Environmental

Understanding a passive treatment mechanism of manganese and zinc at a legacy mine in northern Japan using geochemical modelling – Presentation
Sereyroith Tum, Taiki Katayama, Tetsuo Yasutaka
Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Naoyuki Miyata, Miho Watanabe
Department of Biological Environment, Akita Prefectural University
Yohey Hashimoto – Department of Bioapplications and Systems Engineering (BASE), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Water Management / Mine Hydrology | Salon E

Banning No. 4 Mine, a tale of Title V facility retrofit project development – Presentation
Sami Pretzel, Dingfang Liu, Brian Osborn
Kleinfelder, Inc., United States of America

Tioga river watershed restoration, design considerations and updates – Presentation
Sami Pretzel, Tom Clark
Kleinfelder, Inc., United States of America

Low-concentration sulfate removal from wastewater with barite precipitation technology – Presentation
Meijun Cai, Sara Post, Shashi Rao, Chan Lan Chun, Lucinda Johnson, George Hudak
University of Minnesota Duluth, United States of America

Mine Water Geochemistry | Salons A – C

Leaching dynamics of Pb, Zn, and F: Long-term leaching of waste rock from mine site of Ivittuut, South Greenland – Presentation
Ninni Jeremiassen, Yu Jia
Greenland Institute for Natural Resources, Greenland
Violeta Hansen – University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Henrik Friis – University of Oslo, Norway
Morten Birch Larsen – Rambøll, Denmark
Maia Olsen – Government of Greenland, Greenland
Ninni Jeremiassen, Thomas Ulrich
University of Aarhus, Denmark

Regional spatial distribution of elements in the Vaal primary catchment using stream sediments geochemistry: Implication on anthropogenic and geogenic source – Presentation
Khashane Robert Tshishonga Netshitungulwana, Dirk Grobbelaar, Rudzani Lusunzi
Council for Geoscience,South Africa
Bisrat Yibas – University of the Free State, South Africa
Christoph Gauert – Geological Survey of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Estimating carbon dioxide flux from coal mining discharge portals in the bituminous coal field region of Pennsylvania – Presentation
Lauren J Rockwell, Dorothy J Vesper, Lisa H Lohr
West Virginia University, United States of America
Kyle C Fredrick – Pennsylvania Western University, California, PA, United States of America

Mine Closure & Legacy Issues | Salon D

Ensuring the water quality of post-mining lakes in Central Germany by implementing two different aftercare strategies to meet alkalinity demand – Presentation
Benno Janisch – LMBV mbH, Germany

UAVs for analyzing legacy issues and development opportunities on former mine lands – Presentation
Mike Strager, Paul Kinder, Lucas Kinder, Brady Gutta
West Virginia University, United States of America

Sediments in affected river systems – lessons learned from WISMUT remediation – Presentation
Annia Inge Greif, Silvia Jahn
Wismut GmbH, Germany

Water Management / Mine Hydrology | Salon E

Abandoned coal mine mitigation in artesian conditions – Presentation
Joshua Townsend Zimmermann, Dave Grant Hibbard
Brierley Associates, United States of America

Watershed scale reclamation and treatment planning with changing reclamation funding sources – Presentation
Natalie A Kruse Daniels, Jennifer R Bowman, R Guy Riefler
Ohio University, United States of America

Hydrogeochemical Monitoring of Mine Waters for a controlled and sustainable Mine Water Rebound – from a univariate to a multivariate Tracer Monitoring Concept – Presentation
Henning Jasnowski-Peters, Sebastian Westermann, Christian Melchers
Research Center of Post Mining, Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola University, Bochum, Germany