COURSES
he Landform Design Institute will sponsor and hold short courses on landform design and sustainable mining. These courses will show practitioners how to design mining landforms, how to design covers that support revegetation, and how to design for construction, monitoring, and maintenance. Participants will look at the tools and case histories they require to complete their own designs and plans.
Instructors will consist of landform experts with many years of experience in the field, and the courses will be offered at international conferences, academic institutions and on-location, where mining companies are operating and local stakeholders reside. The courses can be customized to suit a particular mine or the interests of a group. They can even be given right at an actual mine site, or in a lecture hall, office boardroom, or hotel meeting room. The courses will usually be one to two days long, and will include working through the basics of design and plans, the state of practice today, and the ideal practices of the future. Staged exercises will accompany the courses so teams can put their learnings into action.
Courses taught previously by Gord McKenna of the LDI:
- Successful Reclamation – CIM Calgary ’99 – Calgary 1999
- Landform design checklist – CEMA – Fort McMurray 2003
- Landform design for oil sands tailings – Canadian Geotechnical Society – Calgary 2006
- Landform design – Tailings and Mine Waste ’08 – Vail 2008
- Oil sands geotechnique – BGC Engineering – Vancouver 2008
- Landform design – Tailings and Mine Waste ’09 – Banff 2009
- Landform design for oil sands – Syncrude Canada – Fort McMurray 2010
- Oil sands geotechnique – BGC Engineering – Vancouver 2010
- Landform design – Tailings and Mine Waste ’11 – Vancouver 2011
- Landform design – BGC Engineering – Vancouver 2012
- Oil sands geotechnique – BGC Engineering – Kamloops 2012
- Landform design – ICARD 2012 – Ottawa 2012
- Future of Mining – Mine Closure ’12 – Brisbane 2012
- Landform design and closure planning – University of Alberta Mining Engineering – Edmonton 2013
- Landform design – University of Alberta, LRIGS – Edmonton 2013
- Landform design and covers – CLRA ’13 – Whitehorse 2013
- Landform design and cover – Tailings and Mine Waste ’13 – Banff 2013
- Landform design for oil sands – oil sands company client course – Calgary 2013
- Landform design for oil sands – oil sands company client course – Calgary 2013
- Mine closure seminar – BGC Engineering – Santiago 2013
- Oil sands geotechnique – BGC Engineering – Vancouver 2014
- Landform design and closure planning – University of Alberta Mining Engineering – Edmonton 2014
- Landform design and covers – Seminar on Cold Regions- Cover Systems and Mine Closure – Whistler 2014
- Landform design for oil sands – oil sands company client course – Calgary 2014
- Hot Topics in oil sands tailings management – International Oil Sands Tailings Conference – Lake Louise 2014
- Landform design and closure planning – University of Alberta Mining Engineering – Edmonton 2015
- Landform design and reclamation for northern mines — Northern Latitudes Workshop – Juneau 2015
- Landform design for oil sands – oil sands company client course – Calgary 2016
- Landform design and closure planning – University of Alberta Mining Engineering – Edmonton 2016
- Soft Tailings Capping Workshop — oil sands company client – Calgary 2017
- Landform Design Short Course – oil sands company client – Calgary 2018
- Introduction to Closure Planning and Landform Design – University of Alberta Mining Eng – Edmonton 2018
- Landform Design Short Course – gold mining client, Ontario. Timmins 2018
- Closure Planning Short Course – copper mining client, BC. – Kamloops 2019
- Landform Design for Sustainable Mining – TRCR BC Mine Reclamation Symposium – Kimberley 2019
- Landform Design for Sustainable Mining (5-day grad level course) – University of Alberta – Edmonton 2019