Monday, 26 June 2023
13.20 – 15.45 MC&PMT: Advances in best practice for closure and transition - Stream 2
- Dr Ebrahim F. Salmi - Investigating the feasibility of a national abandoned mine database for risk and opportunity assessment in Australia.
Tuesday, 27 June 2023
15.30 – 17.15 Global mega trends - resource implications
- Dr Rob Hough (KEYNOTE SPEAKER) Sustainable Australian Mineral Resources – A grand challenge
- Dr Sandra Occhipinti - New technologies, methodologies for exploration success
15.30 – 17.15 Rock mechanics and tunnelling
- Dr Deepak Adhikary - Predicting the height of longwall mining induced connective fracturing and estimating the permeability enhancement
15.30 – 17.15 New mining frontiers
- Dr Jonathan Ralston - Introduction to the New Mining Frontiers Theme
- Ross Dungavell – PANEL: Future of Mining
- Dr Justine Lacey – PANEL: Mining Automation: Where is it going and how will it get there?
15.30 – 17.15 Rapid resource modelling
- Dr June Hill - Enhancing automated classification of geochemical data for core logging
15.30 – 17.15 Optimising the production chain
- Dr David Miljak - Sensing developments for preconcentration and process control applications
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
11.00 – 12.45 Research initiatives
- Dr Marc Elmouttie - Research and development of a multi-sensor high-precision slope stability monitoring system
- Dr Jane Hodgkinson - Future coal – a resource for all reasons
11.00 – 12.45 AI in Ore Body Knowledge and It's Use
- Dr Mark Lindsay - Exploring the importance of preprocessing operations in geoscience knowledge graphs through the application of a Machine Learning approach
- Dr Marina Pervukhina - AI/ML to unlock potential of “dormant data” of drill cuttings
11.00 – 12.45 Health and wellbeing
- Dr Joseph Perkins - Development of an integrated, automated optical and scanning electron microscopy system to rapidly characterise and quantify the mineral and organic particulates in dust samples.
11.00 – 12.45 Sustainability, Digitisation, and Automation for the Natural Resources Sector
- Dr Andrew Strange - Real-time mining machine guidance for selective mining
14.00 – 15.45 Rock mechanics
- Dr Manoj Khanal - Identification of rock fissures and voids using seismic measurement while drilling
14.00 – 15.45 Challenges and opportunities of autonomous technology
- Dr Navinda Kottege - DARPA Subterranean Challenge: how a team of robots explored an unknown underground environment
14.00 – 15.45 Orebodies in a geological context - minerals systems and predictive geoscience
- Dr Mark Lindsay - Conceptual mineral systems models and impacts on mineral prospectivity predictions: an iron ore example
- Dr Walid Salama - Mapping hydrothermal alteration in regolith: Implication for gold exploration in deeply weathered terrains
14.00 – 15.45 Rock cutting
- Dr Yong Sun - Online pick condition monitoring for underground mining – challenges and opportunities
16.15 – 18.00 Applications of automation
- Dr Mark Dunn - Application of advanced sensors and digital platforms for underground mining automation
16.15 – 18.00 The latest tools for mapping discovery
- Dr Timothy Munday - Deep Earth Imaging – a research platform for technologies that help Image, conceptualise and predict the location of Australia’s resources
16.15 – 18.00 Emerging mining transition pathways
- Dr Ewan Sellers - Mining deeper: challenges and opportunities for future ore
16.15 – 18.00 Emerging mining transition pathways
- Dr Ewan Sellers - Blasting for net zero emissions
16.15 – 18.00 Groundwater and restoration
- Dr Andy Wilkins - Diffuse groundwater recharge in eastern Australia
16.15 – 18.00 Fugitive emissions, capturing and sequestering CO2
- Dr Guangyu Zhao - Low-cost metal oxides catalysts for ventilation air methane abatement
Thursday, 29 June 2023
11.00 – 12.45 Outburst / Rock Burst
- Dr Jun-Seok Bae - Fast desorption method in relation to outburst in Australia
- Dr Boatang Shen - Rock burst risk near major geological structures in underground coal mines
11.00 – 12.45 Successful implementation of automation
- Ms Rachel Xu - Overcoming barriers to noisy data: a case study of inflation, labelling, and classification of mass transport activities using conditional StyleGAN
11.00 – 12.45 Subsea exploration and discovery
- Dr Chris Yule - Marine National Facility and the RV Investigator:seafloor characterisation capabilities and challenges
14.00 – 15.45 Mining automation: where is it going and how will it get there?
- DrNavinder Kottege – PANEL: Mining Automation: Where is it going and how will it get there?
14.00 – 15.45 Off-Earth mining science and exploration
- Matthew Shaw - ISRU frontiers and challenges