Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage - Berkeley Pit, USA Style

The Department of Mines and Energy together with the Centre for Plant & Water Science is pleased to invite all staff, students and interested parties to a presentation by Dr Bob Robins, former Head of the Department of Minerals Engineering at UNSW. The presentation will be held on Rockhampton campus with ISL links to Gladstone. This presentation will be videostreamed and a link will be placed on the CPWS web page (address provided below) following the presentation.

Details are as follows:

Presenter: Dr Bob Robins

Title of Seminar: "The Berkeley Pit and the Horseshoe Bend (HSB) Treatment Plant in Butte Montana ... with some emphasis on CHEMISTRY."

Date: Thursday, 20 September 2007

Time: 1.00pm to 2.00pm

Venue: B33 G.14 - Rockhampton Campus

with ISL links to: B601 1.03A - Gladstone Campus

Cost: Nil

About the Presenter: Dr Bob Robins has spent about 20 years (on-and-off) working on various projects in around the Berkeley Pit at Butte in Montana USA, one of the larger pit lakes of the world being more than 30 times the size of the Mount Morgan Pit. These projects have been sponsored by US EPA as part of their MWTP (Mine Waste Technology Program) at a number of sites in Western USA. The Horseshoe Bend plant was built after a long process in which Dr Robins was involved in the evaluation of alternative methods for treating the acid mine drainage.

Before retirement (!) Dr Robins was Head of the Department of Minerals Engineering at UNSW. He has a personal interest in Mount Morgan Mine site having visited in 1997 and maintained contact since.

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Enquiries: Neil Hoy, Project Officer, Industry Liaison Unit
Department of Mines and Energy
Level 4 209 Bolsover Street, Rockhampton Q 4700, PO Box 548 Rockhampton Q 4700
Telephone: 07 4938 4279 Mobile: 0428 113 295 Email: neil.hoy@dme.qld.gov.au