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Rocky Mountain Mining and Reclamation Conference 2024

Formerly known as the San Juan Mining and Reclamation Conference, the roots of this event will always exist in the San Juan Mountains. However, the history of mining in Colorado extends throughout the Rockies expanding the geographic reach, and the events name new name moving forward will be the "Rocky Mountain Mining and Reclamation Conference."
 

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Lessons Learned - Natural Analogs for Landform Design in Arid Climates
May 22 - 24, 2024

“Landform Design” has firmly entered the mine closure lexicon as an image of ideal reclamation of mine sites. Along with it have come the concepts of geomorphic design that take inspiration from the surrounding landscape, natural analogs, to engineer erosion stable landforms over very long-time scales.

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Consideration of Shear Strains in Design and Construction of Heap Leach Facilities
Sparks, NV, USA
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

This paper uses finite-element modeling to show that accounting for shear strains in geomaterials is critical to heap leach facility performance from operation through closure.

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Field and Laboratory Scale Investigations of AMD Potential in Mine Waste qt Three Coal Mines in The Bowen Basin
Brisbane, Australia
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

This paper describes the scope of studies that were initiated in 2022 to investigate geochemical processes and gas transport mechanisms in mine waste landforms at three coal mines located in the Bowen Basin, Australia.

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Operational Open Pit Ground Support Design at Rainy River Mine
Vancouver, Canada
Monday, October 27, 2025

This paper presents a case study from Rainy River Mine, demonstrating how drone photogrammetry, LiDAR, and advanced numerical modeling tools like RocSlope3 are used to assess slope stability and design effective rock bolt patterns for mitigating kinematic failure risks in steepened open pit slopes.

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