CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Tuesday 9 September 2014 Pre-Conference Workshop Title Rehabilitation Norms and Standards Facilitator Dr. Wayne Truter Topics to be discussed  Introduction to Rehabilitation Norms and Standards in South Africa  Sustainability Criteria - Norms and Standards  Legal Norms and Standards  Soil Norms and Standards  Rehabilitation Planning Norms and Standards  Ground Water Quality Norms and Standards  Surface water and Aquatic systems Norms and Standards  Rehabilitated Ecosystem Norms and Standards  Ecosystem services Norms and Standards  Productive Land Use Norms and Standards  Biodiversity Norms and Standards Wednesday 10 September 2014 Conference Day 1 Registration and Coffee - Greenwell's Glory 08:00-09:00 Royal Clansman 09:00-09:10 Introduction and Welcome Fanus van Wyk 09:10 – 9:55 Keynote Speaker Dr Hector Magome 9:55 - 10:40 Plenary Speaker The history of asbestos rehabilitation in South Africa: Successes and Failures – Heidenreich G 10:40 - 11:00 Morning tea - Greenwell's Glory Royal Clansman 11:00 - 11:45 Plenary Speaker A leadership framework for mine land rehabilitation in South Africa – Fanus van Wyk 11:45 – 12:30 AGM LaRSSA Council Lunch 12:30 - 13:15 Royal Clansman 13:15 -13:25 Presentation 13:25-13:45 Presentation 13:45-14:05 Presentation 14:05 -14:25 Presentation 14:25 -14:45 Presentation 14:45 -15:05 Presentation Marabou/Minnow Session A: Rehabilitated Soil Quality: Successes and Failures Session B: Revegetation in the rehabilitated environment: Successes and Failures Microbiological breakdown and solubilisation of low grade coal: the biotechnology of rehabilitation – Keith Cowan Initial results of a replicate trial to compare the establishment of cynodon dactylon by planting plugs and sowing seed on three substrates on a copper mine – Ed Granger Relationship between soil microbial properties, plant cover and biomass on ultramafic tailings – Trace metal concentration in mine tailings and polluted soils in South African mines - faith, opportunity or threat for rehabilitation – Piet Van Deventer Changed physical characteristics of degraded surface mined soils as influenced by different soil ameliorants Amanuel Abraha Dawid Smith Rehabilitation techniques using the vetiver system for land rehabilitation applicationsRoley Nöffke Opencast coalmine soils – the vital role of the Pedologist – Garry Paterson Characteristics of various mine tailings and the correlation thereof with plant stress factors – Jaco Pretorius The soil chemical zone of influence of airborne gold tailings: Implications for improved rehabilitation measures and closure costs.Ilze van Rensburg Viability of seed produced by five native grasses grown in mine waste: a pot trial - Irma Muller Fungcoal trials at Anglo American CoalHenk Lodewijks Production potential and trace element concentrations of Avena sativa (oat) and Triticum aestivum (wheat) in pot trials of different mine tailingsPiet Van Deventer Afternoon Tea - Greenwell's Glory 15:05-15:25 Royal Clansman 15:25 -15:45 Presentation 15:45-16:05 Presentation Marabou/Minnow Session C - Landform Design: Successes and Failures Session D - Water Quality in the Rehabilitated Environment: Successes and Failures Dust risk modelling from different mine waste facilities in a sensitive site: Design Implications – Adrian Haagner Rehabilitation of knots dump and management of associated leachate: design and construct Johann Le Roux The use of a constructed sub-surface flow wetland in improving water quality from a rehabilitated coal mine in Mpumalanga, South AfricaJacques Meyer Erosion scenario modelling to evaluate post-mining landform stability for rangeland and arable land Albert van Zyl 16:05 -16:25 Presentation 16:25–17:30 Quantifying the wind speed amplification effect on tailings storage facilitiesDouw Bodenstein Geochemical monitoring of soil pollution from the MWS-5 gold TSF on adjacent land. Angelique Daniell Poster Session – Royal Clansman Thursday 11th September 2014 Conference Day 2 Coffee - Greenwell's Glory 08:00-08:30 08:30-09:15 Plenary Speaker 09:15 - 10:00 Plenary Speaker 10:00 - 10:30 Royal Clansman Land Rehabilitation Successes and Failures : Where Collaboration Counts Prof Karen Esler National Carbon Sinks Assessment for South Africa – an implementation of the national climate change response policyBarney Kgope Morning Tea - Greenwell's Glory Royal Clansman 10:30-11:15 Plenary Speaker What constitutes a successful rehabilitation project? Prof Roy Lubke Royal Clansman 11:15-11:35 Presentation 11:35 -11:55 Presentation 11:55-12:15 Presentation 12:15- 12:45 Presentation 12:45 - 13:15 Session E - Biodiversity in the rehabilitated environment: Successes and Failures Some advantages and disadvantages of using plugs of herbaceous species for rehabilitation. Ed Granger Plant survival in relation to microcatchments in a Nama-Karoo riparian ecosystem restoration trial Andrew Jackson Effects and use of multiple ignitions for controlling chromolaena odorata in KwaZulu Natal Winston Trollope Restoring riparian ecological function and biodiversity in arid extensive livestock farming areas Schumann, B., Bragg, C. Lunch Marabou/Minnow Session F - Social aspects of Land Rehabilitation: Successes and Failures Towards sustainable livelihoods: Evaluating the impacts of Holistic Land and Livestock Management in Hwange Communal Lands, Zimbabwe. Tapiwa Chatikobo Validity of claims from Witwatersrand mines that, because of reclamation operations, the region is environmentally, socially, and economically, better Mariette Liefferink The Berg River project, from massive degradation to innovative partnerships and solutions. – Francis Steyn Land rehabilitation: successes and failures. The case of projects in Insiza district. Zimbabwe Noel Dube Royal Clansman Marabou/Minnow Session G - Land Rehabilitation Session H - Land Custodianship and Monitoring: Successes and Failures end land Use: Successes and failures 13:15- 13:35 Presentation Surveying Rehabilitated Soil Cover Depth using a Non-Destructive Electromagnetic (EM) technique Hendrik Smith 13:35- 13:55 Presentation Land Management Aspects of Tailings The Umlilo Opencast Project: Succesful rehabilitaion through mining innovation Storage Facilities: A quarterly risk John Tolmay based approach Hermanus Prinsloo 13:55 -14:15 Presentation Quantification of uranium migration using natural gamma spectrometry on a gold tailings disposal facility Jaco Koch 14:15 -14:35 Presentation Mine waste solutions - monitoring of soil quality at rehabilitation sites Marcelle Ferreira Test of coal mining rehabilitation program Mike Mentis Contributors to pipeline rehabilitation performance Gwen Gosney From waste (land) to renewable energy within the mining sector Karolina Euler-van Hulst Afternoon Tea - Greenwell's Glory 14:35-15:00 Royal Clansman ` Land Rehabilitation Successes and Failures: Take Home Message 15:00- 15:20 Presentation The importance of scientific principles in monitoring and assessing rehabilitated land Wayne Truter 15:20- 15:40 Presentation Standardizing rehabilitation evaluation techniques and setting norms and standards for functional levels of ecosystem development Adrian Haagner 15:40 -16:00 Closing Conference Summary – PJL Smit Friday 12th September 2014 Post Conference Tours      Disturbed Wetlands case study – Gauteng University of Pretoria Department of Civil Engineering Laboratory – Physical modeling of geotechnical settlement of backfilled opencast mines Gold Mine Legacy Tour Rehabilitation of a Platinum Mine Lessons learnt in Game Reserve Rehabilitation