Conference themes
- Ground support – tendon systems, surface liners, injection systems in open cut and underground mining
- Alternative materials in ground control
- Geotechnical instrumentation, monitoring and data management
- Mine design – geotechnical considerations
- Geotechnical design methodologies
- Geomechanics of multiseam, multireef and complex orebodies
- Geotechnical challenges in extreme mining environments
- Backfill technologies
- Pillar design and performance
- Rock mass characterisation techniques and practice
- Regional stability
- Slope stability
- Geotechnical risk management
- Best practice case studies
- New challenges and innovations in ground control
- Numerical modelling in design
Key Dates
Abstract submission deadline – 9 November 2020
Notification to authors – 7 December 2020
Draft extended abstracts due – 18 January 2021
Final extended abstracts due – 29 March 2021
Conference Dates – 25 – 27 May 2021