Mine Water Management
This page provides supplemental resources to accompany the 1 March 2023 free AWS webinar “Mine Water Management Part 1: Surface Water“, addressing closure issues related to diversions. Future webinars in this series will focus on groundwater and other mine water impacts. View the webinar recording here:
This first webinar in our mine water management series addresses external runoff, where mining meets waterways. Details on the presenters and panelists are available on the Australian Water School webinar registration page here: “Mine Water Management Part 1: Surface Water“.
Previous Webinars
View previous webinars with relevance to mining, including managed aquifer recharge for mining, assessment of tailings dam failures, and spillway design capacity
1 March 2023 presentation slides:
relevant Publications
Geomorphic, hydraulic, and sediment transport modelling for mine-related channel realignment
Case Study: Caves Creek, Pilbara, Western Australia
By Mike Harvey, Mark Pearcey, Krey Price, and Bishnu Devkota
- This 2020 International Mine Water Association paper discusses the merits and challenges associated with designing infrastructure for PMF events:
- Rethinking Hydrologic Design Criteria for Mine Closure, by Mike Harvey, Krey Price, and Mark Pearcey
- This 2018 HWRS paper addresses event-based versus duration-based assessments for extreme design events:
- Event-based versus duration-based assessment for long-term modelling of mining impacts, by Krey Price
- This April 2019 Engineers Australia seminar discusses the question of event-based versus duration-based assessments for extreme events…with a wide range of possible answers:
- “Scour Protection Design Criteria for Mine Site Infrastructure” by Krey Price and Dave Westwater, from International Mine Water Association 2020 Proceedings (Page 199)
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