Mine Closure, Tailings and Waste Management: Regulatory Advances and Practical Challenges
The session explores critical issues at the intersection of mine closure, tailings management, and waste handling - examining both regulatory developments and on-the-ground challenges faced by industry
Moderator
Presentations:
11:30 - Experience and proposals for processing industrial waste from enterprises in the mining, metallurgical, chemical and energy industries
Serik Kozhakhmetov
Scientific Adviser to CEO
ANGSTREM
11:45 - Opportunities for Operational and Cost Improvements through Paste Backfill in Kazakhstan
Alexey Ragulin
Managing Director - Kazakhstan
Paterson & Cooke
12:00 - Certain problems of legal regulation of industrial waste and secondary raw materials
Gulvira Shaimerdenova
The head of the lawmaking division
Qarmet
12:15 - Numerical Modelling for Tailings Facilities: Enhancing Design, Management, and Closure Strategies
Sheila Imrie
Principal Hydrogeologist / Groundwater Numerical Modeller
SRK Consulting (UK)
12:30 - Energy from explosives (used in mining) for hazardous waste neutralization
Jolanta Biegańska
Professor
AGH University of Kraków
