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 – 13 April 2020
Notification to authors – 11 May 2020
Draft extended abstracts due – 22 June 2020
Final extended abstracts due – 14 September 2020
Conference Dates – 23 – 25 November 2020