Workshop Program for Mine Rehab Conference 2018Below is the list of workshops that were held at our 8th Annual Best Practice Ecological Rehabilitation of Mined Lands Conference (2018).
The workshops were held from 10:00 am until 12:30 pm on Friday 13th April (the day following the main conference) at the GP Building, University of Newcastle, Callaghan campus. A light lunch was served following the workshops. The workshops include: Location of workshops
For more information on the workshop convenors please click on the convenors links.
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Summary of Workshops
Geomorphic design and landscape evolution modelling for best practice mine rehabilitation.
Friday 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Stream 1
Convenors: José Martín Duque (1) and Greg Hancock (2)
Location: GP212 (2nd Floor GP Building), University of Newcastle, Callaghan Campus
Convenors: José Martín Duque (1) and Greg Hancock (2)
- Faculty of Geology, Complutense University, 28040 Madrid, Spain. [email protected]
- School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Earth Science Building, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, 2308, Australia. [email protected]
Location: GP212 (2nd Floor GP Building), University of Newcastle, Callaghan Campus
Mining is necessary for maintaining society’s current lifestyle and it will continue to grow at a global scale, even if the use of some mineral resources may decline. The generation of solid and liquid wastes and the discharge of these wastes on to land and into waterways are arguably the greatest impacts on the environment associated with mining. Geomorphology provides a very useful framework for understanding and quantifying stability and changes in erosion and sedimentation at those sites, which is the root of the release to wastes to the environment. But also for designing and building stable functional landforms in mine rehabilitation, processes can be improved through modelling and monitoring. Current cutting-edge research in this field tries to merge geomorphic landform design and modelling methods and packages, increasing their capabilities.
The workshop will focus on the independent and complementary capabilities of landscape modelling (SIBERIA) and geomorphic design software (Natural Regrade with GeoFluv) for best practice mine rehabilitation. This will be illustrated with software demonstrations and real examples.
The workshop will focus on the independent and complementary capabilities of landscape modelling (SIBERIA) and geomorphic design software (Natural Regrade with GeoFluv) for best practice mine rehabilitation. This will be illustrated with software demonstrations and real examples.
An appreciative enquiry approach to a mine closure as a reservoir of possibilities
Friday 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Stream 2
Convenor: Jo-Anne Everingham
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland
Location: GP216 (2nd Floor GP Building), University of Newcastle, Callaghan Campus
Convenor: Jo-Anne Everingham
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland
Location: GP216 (2nd Floor GP Building), University of Newcastle, Callaghan Campus
‘Appreciative enquiry’ is a forward-looking strategy for ‘systematic discovery’ of constructive capacity or positive potential and a sound way to build collaborative capacity. This workshop will experience in brief an example of ‘participatory science’, a community change process that mobilises people’s ability to enquire, understand and anticipate by posing a ‘positive question’. Rather than focus on problems, and deficits in a situation or system, or a set of problems to be solved, this approach suggests that those with a stake in the future uses and performance of post-production land can relate to it as a “reservoir of possibility”. The full appreciative enquiry process consists of four stages – Discovery, Dream, Design and Destiny. In the workshop, the first three stages will be applied to a hypothetical case as per the table below.
Appreciative enquiry of a closure proposition
Posing a question: e.g. What would this land look like and how would it function if it was converted to a beneficial post-mining land use?
Appreciative enquiry of a closure proposition
Posing a question: e.g. What would this land look like and how would it function if it was converted to a beneficial post-mining land use?
Stage of Appreciative enquiry
Discover / data gathering “What is the best of what has been done?” Dream “What might be achieved here?” Design and dialogue “What will make it happen?” Destiny/ demonstration/ delivery “What will result?” |
Tasks at that stage
Ground the discussion in evidence of real situation: experiences, studies, etc of what has worked well (NOT a wish list) On the basis of those pooling that knowledge of successes, express a shared vision of a possible and desirable future – a collective aspiration Identify available resources, skills and expertise and ways to use them to bridge from ‘what is’ to ‘what might be’ (these will normally be locale-specific) The connection, cooperation and co-creation of earlier stages will bear fruit as a change as an improved system |
The exercise will illustrate how doing this in a workshop setting maximises the potential to gain, manage and leverage knowledge from a variety of sources and experiences.