June in the alpine
39th Annual BC Mine Reclamation Symposium
For the second time, the BC Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation collaborated with the International Conference on Mine Closure, founded by the Australian Centre for Geomechanics and organized by InfoMine in partnership with UBC and the BCTRCR. The conference was held in the Hyatt Hotel in Vancouver from June 1 to 3, 2015 to network and observe plenary sessions over the 3 days, a panel on First Nations and Community and additional technical papers in several topic streams ranging from Vegetation, Genomics, ARD treatment to First Nations and Community.
Highlights:
Various Plenary sessions, Panels and technical papers were presented over the 3 days with great interest from 450 people from 23 countries as shown:
Michael Davies, Teck Resources – Opening address
Chief Louie, Westbank First Nation – Plenary session
Mine Closure Panel session
Papers related to BC and the TRCR will be published and accessible very soon on the University of British Columbia library site at cIRcle.
See the press release below on the Award Winning Paper from the 2014 conference in Prince George, BC and the announcement of the 2016 (40th annual!) Symposium back to the Okanagan Valley.
