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PRELIMINARY LIST OF TECHNICAL PAPERS

Monday 16 March 2009 Tuesday 17 March 2009
DAY 1 DAY 2
AM Sessions AM Sessions

“New world” versus “old world”

  • Joint effects of metal and market uncertainties
  • Global optimisation
  • Risk quantification
  • Old and new paradigms
  • Managing multiple objectives
  • Lessons from case studies

Large-scale integrated applications

  • Open pit mine design
  • Global optimisation
  • Production scheduling
  • Stockpile and blending optimisation
  • Cut off grade optimisation revisited
  • Supply chain risk
Lunch Lunch
PM Sessions PM Sessions
  • New high-order conditional simulation methods of geology and applications
  • Advances in mining optimisation and case studies
  • Uncertainty models and recoverable reserves
  • Optimisation is moving underground
Welcome Drinks Symposium Dinner
Wednesday 18 March 2009
DAY 3
AM Sessions

The new world and strategic innovation

  • Risk management through optimisation
  • Chain of mining and integration
  • Stochastic mine planning
  • Best in new advances
  • Financial options
  • Managing technology changes
Lunch

PM Session

Forum on: “Innovation and a changing world: Challenges ahead”*

*SPECIAL FEATURE
Forum on: “Innovation and a changing world: Challenges ahead”, led by Brett King and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos.

SOCIAL PROGRAM

Welcome Drinks

Date: Monday 16 March 2009
Time: 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Venue: Hyatt Regency Perth
Cost: Delegates complimentary
Guests A$70.00 per person
Dress: Smart Casual

Symposium Dinner          Proudly Sponsored by

Date: Tuesday 17 March 2009
Time: 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm
Venue: Hyatt Regency Perth
Cost: Delegates complimentary
Guests A$110.00 per person
Dress: Smart Casual

Internationally recognised participants attending to date:

  • Jeff Whittle, Australia
  • Brett King, Strategy Optimisation Systems, Australia
  • Peter Ravenscroft, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., Australia
  • Peter Stone, BHP Billiton, Australia
  • Jean-Michel Rendu, USA
  • Peter Dowd, University of Adelaide, Australia
  • Ian Douglas, Newmont, USA
  • Harry Parker, AMEC Americas, USA
  • David Whittle, BHP Billiton, Australia
  • Olivier Tavchandjian, Vale Inco, Canada
  • Andre Journel, Stanford University, USA
  • Michael O’Brien, AngloGold Ashanti, South Africa
  • Victor Oparin, Russian Academy, Russia
  • Roussos Dimitrakopoulos, McGill University, Canada

Further Information

For further information regarding papers for this event please contact:

Kylie McShane, Publications Coordinator
Telephone: + 61 3 9658 6107
Facsimile: + 61 3 9662 3662
Email: kmcshane@ausimm.com.au