Mine Water Management
This page provides supplemental resources to accompany free AWS webinars covering mine water management, including “From Geology to Groundwater“, addressing pit lakes and other groundwater challenges, and “Mine Water Management: Surface Water Solutions“, addressing closure issues related to diversions. Future webinars in this series will focus on additional mine water impacts. View the webinar recordings here:
Our mine water management series addresses pit lake hydrology and external runoff, where mining meets waterways. Details on the presenters and panellists are available on the Australian Water School webinar registration page here.
Upcoming Content
Our upcoming free GoldSim webinar covers water balance in mining and tailings. Apply GoldSim to practical problems, including mine water management, in our upcoming GoldSim Essentials training course. Register below:
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First Principles: On-Demand Content
If you are looking for a refresher or an introduction into the first principles that are critical for mine water modelling, our groundwater, hydrology, and hydraulics essentials courses are available for on-demand registration, to complete at your convenience:
Hydrology Essentials Training Series:
Hydraulics Essentials Training Series:
Previous Webinars
View previous webinars with relevance to mining, including managed aquifer recharge for mining, assessment of tailings dam failures, and spillway design capacity
Webinar Resources
Following are additional resources to support our mine water management webinar 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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