Mine water experts gather in Vancouver

In just about two weeks, attendees from all around the world will gather in Vancouver to enjoy an impressive technical program. Mine Water Solutions in Extreme Environments conference is the second in this series of conferences that focuses on success in mine water management in challenging environments.

Running from April 12th to 15th. Register now and guarantee your seat!

The first conference in the series was held in Lima, Peru, in 2013 and attracted 352 delegates from 25 countries.

This second conference promises to be even more successful. Papers have come in from all over the world, promising stories of an amazing variety of mine water challenges and solutions. Among many other fascinating topics, delegates will hear about:

• securing water supply for a mine in Jordan that is periodically occupied by Bedouin tribesmen;
• innovations in metal removal from mine waste water in the USA;
• bio-based technologies to treat water in Chile;
• design and construction of LDPR lined high velocity channels in Canada;
• successful dewatering of a large debris-flow body in Peru;
• providing realistic recharge distributions in arid zones of Australia;
• new methodology for obtaining alternative hydrological data in remote regions of Spain; and
• acquiring and modeling water chemistry data in extreme environments in South Africa.

These are just a few of the topics to be covered. For the full program, please visit the Mine Water Solutions web site. We look forward to discussing these challenging topics with you at this years Mine Water Solutions Conference in Vancouver, Canada, from April 12th to 15th.