41st Annual British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium. September 18-20, 2018 Cariboo Recreation Centre Williams Lake

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1 41st Annual British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium September 18-20, 2018 Cariboo Recreation Centre Williams Lake

2 Sponsors Sponsors Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors Bronze Sponsors Above and Beyond Friends of TRCR 1

3 Table of Contents Sponsors... 1 Registration Desk Hours... 3 Daily Shuttle Services... Williams Lake Airport (YWL) Shuttle Schedule... General Symposium Shuttle Schedule Exhibitor Booths... 7 Agenda... 8 Acknowledgements

4 Registration Desk Hours The registration desk will be located outside the Gibraltar Room at the Cariboo Recreation Centre. Monday, September 17 Tuesday, September 18 Wednesday, September 19 Thursday, September 20 8:00 am 5:00 pm Closed for Mine Tour 7:30 am 5:00 pm 7:30 am 2:00 pm *Emergency after hours assistance from September 17 to September 20 is available at

5 Daily Shuttle Services Williams Lake Airport (YWL) Shuttle Schedule For your convenience, a complimentary airport shuttle service into Williams Lake will be provided. Please be ready to board 10 minutes prior to departure. Reservation is not required. Shuttles will run during the following times: Monday, September 17 (YWL Williams Lake) Pickup Location: Depart Airport: Depart Airport: Depart Airport: Dropoff Location: Williams Lake Regional Airport (YWL). Immediately upon exiting the airport, you will see a driver with a BC TRCR sign. 9:20 am 2:30 pm 7:00 pm Best Western / Super 8, The Ramada, and Cariboo Rec Centre. Thursday, September 20 (Williams Lake YWL) Pickup Location: Cariboo Rec Centre Dropoff Location: Williams Lake Regional Airport (YWL) 4:30 pm (immediately following end of sessions) 4

6 Daily Shuttle Services General Symposium Shuttle Schedule A complimentary shuttle service will be provided throughout the Symposium. Guests are also welcome to use their own transportation. Please be ready to board 10 minutes prior to departure. Reservation is not required. Monday, September 17 Daily Shuttle - Cariboo Rec Centre Pickup Location: Ramada 7:45 am Pickup Location: Pickup Location: Dropoff Location: Best Western / Super 8 (in the Laughing Loon driveway) 8:00 am Cariboo Rec Centre 4:30 pm Best Western / Super 8, & Ramada Evening Shuttle - Continuous service between Laughing Loon Pub, Best Western, Super 8, & Ramada for Welcome Reception 6:45 pm 9:00 pm Tuesday, September 18 Daily Shuttle - Cariboo Rec Centre Pickup Location: Ramada 6:45 am Pickup Location: Best Western / Super 8 (in the Laughing Loon driveway) 6:55 am 5

7 Daily Shuttle Services Wednesday, September 19 Daily Shuttle - Cariboo Rec Centre Pickup Location: Ramada 7:30 am Pickup Location: Pickup Location: Dropoff Location: Best Western / Super 8 (in the Laughing Loon driveway) 7:40 am Cariboo Rec Centre 4:30 pm Best Western / Super 8, & Ramada Evening Shuttle - Continuous service between Laughing Loon Pub Best Western, Super 8 & Ramada 6:45 pm 11:00 pm Thursday, September 20 Daily Shuttle - Cariboo Rec Centre Pickup Location: Ramada 7:30 am Pickup Location: Best Western / Super 8 (in the Laughing Loon driveway) 7:40 am 6

8 Exhibitor Booths Booth Number Exhibitor 1 Hatfield Consultants 2 ALS 3 Reforestation Technologies International 4 NATS Nursery Ltd. 5 Premier Pacific Seeds Ltd. 6 IEG 7 Tipi Mountain Native Plants Ltd. 8 Veolia Water Technologies Canada Inc. 9 Contango Strategies 10 Metro Vancouver 7

9 Agenda Workshop, Technical Sessions and Banquet Dinner are located at the Cariboo Recreation Centre, Gibraltar Room. Monday, September 17 7:00 am - 8:15 am Exhibitor set up (optional) 8:30 am 4:30 pm Optional Workshop - Mount Polley Mine Course Lyn Anglin, Imperial Metals; Luke Moger, Mount Polley; Colleen Hughes, Mount Polley 11:45 am 12:45pm Hosted box lunch offered to workshop participants 7:00 pm 9:00 pm Welcome Reception at Laughing Loon Pub You will receive two complimentary drink tickets at the Reception. All invited! Tuesday, September 18 7:00 am 8:30 pm Field Tour of Mount Polley Mine Site and Off-Site Dinner in Likely. Meet in parking lot of Cariboo Recreation Centre for check in and bus departures. Mount Polley Mine Tour Shuttle Pickup Location: Cariboo Rec Centre Tour Departs: 7:30 am 8

10 Agenda Wednesday, September 19 6:00am 8:00am Exhibitor set up 6:45am 8:30am Speakers Breakfast *Presenters and Chairs only Location: Alley Katz Cafe 8:00am 4:30pm Technical Sessions 8:00am Welcome and Opening Warn Franklin, Teck Coal Limited 8:10am Key Note Presentation Lyn Anglin, Imperial Metals 9:00am Soil Transplants as a Mine Reclamation Technique for Rehabilitating Soil Microbial Communities Katie McMahen, Mount Polley/UBC 9:30am Biosolids and Conifers: Friends or Foes? Janelle Hunt, Metro Vancouver and Gabriel Holmes, Mount Polley 10:00am Investigations of Metal Mobility and Bioavailability in Spill-Affected Lakes Pierre Stecko, Minnow Environmental Inc. 10:30am - 11:00am Health Break 9

11 Agenda 11:00am Monitoring the performance of constructed creek habitat using drones James Ogilvie, Golder Associates Ltd. and Hillary Topps, Golder Associates Ltd. 11:30am Assessment of the Mount Polley Mine Site for Potential Passive or Semi-Passive Treatment Options. Monique Simair, Contango and Rachel Martz, Contango 12:00pm The structural development of soil microbial communities in reclaimed sites of a metal mine; implications to the restoration of anthropogenic disturbances. Landon Benson, Taseko Gibraltar Mines Ltd. 12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch Break Boxed lunches provided for all attendees 1:30pm Using ecosystem water and carbon fluxes as integrated measures of reclamation success Justin Straker, Integral Ecology Group 2:00pm A Community-Based Approach to End Land Use Planning at Highland Valley Copper Natalie Melaschenko, Integral Ecology Group and Tamlyn Botel, Citxw Nlaka'pamux Assembly (CNA) 2:30pm Bralorne-Takla Mercury Mine: Innovative Risk Management and Reclamation Joanna Runnells, BC FLNRORD and Trevor McConkey, SNC-Lavalin Inc. 3:00pm - 3:30pm Health Break 10

12 Agenda 3:30pm Effecting Change by Using Innovative Techniques in Low Risk Projects David Sahlstrom, David Sahlstrom Consulting 4:00pm Case Study: Performance of the Operating Demonstration-Scale Constructed Wetland Treatment System at Minto Mine Emilie Bouchard, Capstone Mining Corp Mine 7:00pm - 11:00 pm Reclamation Awards Dinner Event Location: Gibraltar Room, Cariboo Rec Centre Thursday, September 20 6:45am 8:30am Speakers Breakfast Location: Alley Katz Cafe * Presenters and Chairs only 8:00am 4:30pm Technical Sessions 12:00pm 1:00 pm & After 4:30pm Exhibitor Tear Down 8:00am Teck's Recent Experience in Pursuing Net Positive Impact (NPI) for Biodiversity at Coal Mines in BC and Alberta Sean Beswick, Teck Resources 8:30am Biodiversity Management: Establishing Pre-Existing Baseline Conditions on Historical Mining Disturbances to Derive Back-casted Wildlife Habitat Suitability Model Metrics Kyle Knopff, Golder Associates 11

13 Agenda 9:00am End Land Use Objective Planning: Integrating an Ecosystem Based Approach into Biodiversity and Reclamation Planning Warn Franklin, Teck Coal Limited and Allison Burton, Ktunaxa Nation Council 9:30am Vegetation Quality Assessment: Measuring Quality of Vegetation Communities to Support the Accounting Metrics of the Biodiversity Vision of Net Positive Impact for a Large-Scale Mining Operation Ted Gullison, National Capital Consulting Inc 10:00am - 10:30am Health Break 10:30am Selenium Concentration and Loading in the Vicinity of Bullmoose Mine During Post-Closure Phase Wenying Liu, UBC 11:00am Line Creek Large Woody Debris Enhancement project Applying Long-Term Monitoring and Research to Habitat Rehabilitation Design Mike Robinson, Lotic Environmental Ltd 11:30am Best Management Practices for Whitebark Pine Michael Keefer, Keefer Ecological Services 12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch Break Boxed lunches provided for all attendees 1:00pm Rate-Control Quotient of Mineral Dissolution from Waste Rock Dumps Simon Liu, National Research Council Canada 12

14 Agenda 1:30pm The Elk Valley Fish and Fish Habitat Committee: A Multi-Agency Consensus Based Approach to Managing Fisheries Impacts in the Elk River Valley of British Columbia Lindsay Watson, Teck Resources 2:00pm Biosolids in BC's Southern Interior: A Case Study on Public Risk Perception and Factors Influencing Public Attitudes Sarah Whitehouse, Thompson Rivers University 2:30pm Landform Elements for Mine Reclamation June Pollard, J. Pollard Consulting 3:00pm Including Mine Rock Facility Design to Enhance Progressive Reclamation Mark Phillip, O Kane Consultants and Tyler Birkham, O Kane Consultants 3:30pm The Role of Good Environmental Data Management in Reducing Risk, and The Challenges Involved Henrik Frijs, MonitorPro 4:00pm Symposium Closing Remarks 4:30pm Optional Airport Shuttle 13

15 Acknowledgements The British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation wishes to thank the following individuals and/or organizations for their contributions to the 2018 Reclamation Symposium: Brenda Bailey (Secretary Treasurer) Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Papers Sub Committee, TRCR Finances / Signing Officer Jonathan Buchanan - Association for Mineral Exploration (AME) - Media Sub-Committee, Reclamation Awards Sub Committee Tania Demchuk - Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources - Reclamation Awards Support, Symposium Sub-Committee, Papers Sub-Committee, Jaimie Dickson - Teck Highland Valley Copper Partnership Papers Sub Committee (Chair), First Nations and Community Sub-Committee, Scholarship Sub Committee Warn Franklin (TRCR Chair) - Teck Coal Limited, Symposium Sub Committee, Sponsorship Sub Committee Lauchlan Fraser Thompson Rivers University Symposium Sub Committee, Papers Sub Committee Wendy Gardner - Thompson Rivers University - Scholarship Sub Committee (Chair), Student volunteers Alan Gibson - Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy Papers Sub Committee 14

16 Acknowledgements John Jackson (TRCR Vice Chair) Gibraltar Mines Ltd. Symposium Sub Committee Jennifer McConnachie - Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Reclamation Awards (Chair), Papers Nicole Pesonen Nyrstar Myra Falls Ben Chalmers - Mining Association of Canada (MAC) Bill Price - Natural Resources Canada - First Nations and Community Sub-Committee (Chair) Ray Proulx Teck Coal Limited Ryan Todd - New Gold Inc Papers Sub Committee Michelle Unger Teck Resources Limited Papers Sub Committee Angela Waterman - Media Sub Committee 15

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