IFSCRI

GeoRisk Workshop

In a recent bow-tie risk analysis, Vale Inco concluded that, while significant advances have been made in seismic monitoring, data interpretation, hazard mapping, reentry protocols and support design, there are insufficient controls to mitigate risk associated with fault slip events. CEMI's research management team therefore wishes to bring together a group of experts that could think out of the box and identify potential areas for innovation in the field of fault slip controls (from structural geology to fault behaviour characterization, to mining method selection in order to control energy release, to monitoring data utilization, to numerical modeling, and much more.

Workshop Contributors

• Andrew Wilson, CEMI
• Benoit Valley, CEMI
• Peter Kaiser, CEMI
• Brad Simser, Xstrata Nickel
• Cezar Trifu, ESG Solutions
• Claire Samson, Carleton University
• Damien Duff, CEMI
• Dave Beck, Beck Arndt
• Dave Counter, Kidd Creep Timmins -XC
• David Collins, ESG Solutions
• Denis Thibodeau, Vale Inco
• Doug Morrison, Golder Associates Ltd.
• Eric Westman, Virginia Tech.
• Gerhard van Aswegen, ISSI
• Glenn McDowell, Vale Inco
• Jerry Ran, Barrick Gold
• John Fedorowich, Itasca
• John Hadjigeorgiou, University of Toronto
• John Henning, Goldcorp
• John McGaughey, Mira Geoscience
• Kevin Fenlon, Vale Inco
• Larry Cochrane, VI Innov. Ctr. Mem. Univ.
• Mark Board, Itasca
• Matt Purvance, University of Nevada/Itasca
• Pavel Vasak, Mirarco
• Peter Kaiser, CEMI
• Richard Lynch, ISSI
• Richard Smith, Laurentian University
• Rob Mercer, Knight Piesold
• Scott Carlisle, Xstrata Nickel
• Sean Maloney, MIRARCO
• Stephen Falconer, Xstrata Nickel
• Steve McKinnon, Queen's University
• Trevor Carter, Golder Associates Ltd.
• Veronique Falmagne, Golder Associates Ltd.
• Vladimir Shumila, ESG Solutions
• Wouter Bleeker, Natural Resources Canada