SECURING THE FUTURE MINING, METALS & THE ENVIRONMENT IN A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY AND 8th ICARD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACID ROCK DRAINAGE

SKELLEFTEÅ, SWEDEN

June 22 - June 26 2009

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Securing the Future 2009 and the 8th ICARD in Skellefteå organised by SveMin (The Swedish Association of Mines, Mineral and Metal Producers) in cooperation with INAP (the International Network for Acid Prevention, see www.inap.com.au), wishes to bring together international experts on environmental aspects of mining and metals from the scientific community, from government agencies, from the mining and metal industries and from other stakeholders to share knowledge and experience and to discuss industry practices, challenges and research needs.

For more information please download the conference flyer
 

MIRO recently held the very successful ‘Delivering Sustainable Solutions II’ conference at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on 30^th October 2007 to disseminate projects under the MIST and SAMP Programmes from 2004 – 2007 funded through Defra’s Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The conference was chaired by Peter Huxtable with fellow council member, Duncan Wardrop, Mineral Resources Manager at Lafarge Aggregates, giving the keynote speech.
More details can be found be following this link to the MIST website.
 

‘Delivering Sustainable Solutions II’

MIST/SAMP Conference – 30th October 2007

A conference is to be held on 30th October 2007 at The National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham, to demonstrate successful projects commissioned during the period 2004 – 2007 under the MIST and SAMP programmes which are funded by DEFRA from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.

The Mineral Industry Sustainable Technology Programme (MIST) is a collaborative research programme that provides co-funding for projects that are implemented by partnerships formed from a wide range of mineral industry stakeholders, and is operated with funding from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The objective of MIST is, ‘to reduce the environmental effects of mineral extraction through development, promotion and implementation of sustainable technologies.’

The Sustainable Land-Won and Marine Dredged Aggregate Minerals Programme (SAMP) was established by The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) as a mechanism to provide funding for aggregate minerals research that is broadly in line with the aims of the construction aggregates component of the DCLG’s Planning Research Programme.

To date the two programmes have engaged the active participation of over one hundred different organisations and commissioned projects with a total combined value of £19.2M.

The Conference will provide an opportunity to present and discuss the results of environmental research and development projects commissioned during the second phase of the MIST and SAMP Programmes which concluded in March 2007.

For further information and registration details, please click on the  flyer link above or contact: Pam Badham,
MIRO, Concorde House, Trinity Park, Solihull, Birmingham, B37 7UQ.
Tel: 0121 635 5225 Fax: 0121 635 5226 Email: pam.badham@miro.co.uk.
 

A number of MIRO Publications have now been made available free of charge, although we will have to charge for postage and packing, while stocks last and on a first come first served basis. Titles include the following:
 

The project ‘Integrated Water Management in Former Coal Mining Regions’ (INWATCO) was undertaken during 2002 to 2005 by a partnership of organisations from the UK and Romania. The project, which was jointly funded by the project partners and the European Commission LIFE Environment Programme was established to demonstrate options for integration of coalfield drainage systems into water resource planning as required by the European Water Framework Directive.

The INWATCO project objective was to ‘demonstrate and evaluate innovative techniques and procedures for integrated management of groundwater resources in former coal mining areas’. The specific aims were to develop a methodology to reduce risks and uncertainties associated with strategies for integrated management of water resources at a river basin scale in former coal mining regions. The results of the project will provide significant support to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the many regions of Europe where coalfield drainage is a major consideration.

Publications available are:

Guidance to Support Strategic Planning

Non-technical Summary

Mineral Industry Sustainable Technology – MIST 2002 – 2004 Final Reports

Funded by the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund MIST 2002 – 2004 funded 39 projects over three calls. Projects had a combined total of £4.85million and covered four thematic priorities;

• Environmental Assessment Procedures and Tools,
• Impact Mitigation and Management,
• Site Design, Operation and Closure,
• Knowledge and Technology Transfer

The publication contains a non technical summary of all the projects funded throughout the programme and also a CD-ROM containing the full final reports of the 39 projects.

Sustainable Land Won and Marine Dredged Aggregate Minerals Programme – SAMP 2002 – 2004 Final Reports

The 2002 – 2004 programme was managed by MIRO on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) (Previously Office of the Deputy Prime Minister - ODPM). All projects funded by this contributed to achieving the second objective of the ALSF defined as “Promoting environmentally friendly aggregate extraction and transportation”. The publication follows the same format as the MIST publication, containing non technical summaries or all projects along with their final report on CD-ROM. .

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