Mine Closure 2026
15–17 September 2026 | Sofitel Melbourne On Collins, Melbourne, Australia
- Abstracts are due 25 February 2026. Details on the authors page.
- Earlybird registration ends 31 July 2026.
- Workshop and site visit details coming soon!
- ACG training videos are freely available. Click here to access.
About the Conference
The series of International Conferences on Mine Closure is a fixture on the calendars of many mining professionals, providing topical and high quality papers and presentations on a range of topics of immediate interest and relevance. A key feature of the conference series is the diversity of disciplines and expertise that come together to focus on the pressing issues facing the mine closure community globally.
Conference Themes
- Stakeholders and communities
- Closure objectives and criteria
- Financing and cost estimation
- Relinquishment and legacy management
- Landform and engineering design
- Surface water and erosion control
- Ecosystem reconstruction
- Statutory compliance
- Contaminant remediation and impact management
Conference Co-chairs
Professor Andy Fourie
Professor of Civil & Mining Engineering and Program Director – Future Tails
The University of Western Australia
Jo Heyes
Strategic Mine Closure Advisor
Professor Mark Tibbett
Professor of Soil Ecology
University of Reading, UK
Previous conferences have been held in:
- 2025 Luleå, Sweden
- 2024 Perth, Western Australia
- 2023 Reno, USA
- 2022 Brisbane, Australia
- 2021 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- 2019 Perth, Australia
- 2018 Leipzig, Germany
- 2016 Perth, Australia
- 2015 Vancouver, Canada
- 2014 Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2013 Cornwall, England
- 2012 Brisbane, Australia
- 2011 Alberta, Canada
- 2010 Vina del Mar, Chile
- 2009 Perth, Australia
- 2008 Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2007 Santiago, Chile
- 2006 Perth, Australia
ACG Online Repository of Conference Proceedings
The proceedings of previous Mine Closure conferences, including Mine Closure 2025, are freely available to download from the ACG Online Repository of Conference Proceedings.
View the papers at papers.acg.uwa.edu.au/mineclosure
Data source: ACG internal analysis, January 2026